TESTIMONIALS
"With the deadline approaching, asking Dennis to edit our sizable training grant application to the NIH was the best decision we could have made. He refined our documents to accentuate the fit for the funding program, which genuinely improved its quality. The collaboration was effortless and timely. We are looking forward to working with him in future! "
Assist. Prof. Dr. Dominique L. Pritchett,
Howard University, DC, USA
"Dennis' comments helped me a lot in the process of refining my doctoral thesis to make it more comprehensible for readers from other research areas. Not only did he have the necessary neuroscientific background knowledge - he also demonstrated a precise feeling for rephrasing scientific writing to make it accurate and understandable."
PhD candidate,
prefers to remain unnamed
“Dennis is a highly experienced neuroscientist with broad training in behavioral and systems neuroscience. He is passionate about science communication and advocacy, and it is exciting to see him combine that passion with his scientific expertise in his role as a freelance scholar. He was born for this!”
Dr. Megan R. Carey,
Principal Investigator, Champalimaud Research
“I worked closely with Dr. Eckmeier for several years. He is a very careful scientist, and he puts a lot of thought into his very clear writing. He is also a very rigorous and exacting critic. I am confident that with these skills, he will sharpen your manuscripts and grant proposals.”
Dr. Stephen D Shea,
Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
“My former PhD student Dennis Eckmeier is a reliable source of feedback and advice for neurobiologists. Dennis is a quiet person, but very approachable. As any excellent scientist, he is also intelligent, clear thinking, skeptical, and has many original and attractive ideas. His extraordinary diligence, and high expectations are reflected in all his work. He knows how to shape publications to perfection, and how to respond constructively to difficult reviewers.”
Dr. Hans-Joachim Bischof,
Professor emeritus, Bielefeld University
PORTFOLIO
independent work
•Text sample: research statement
• Text sample: research proposal, motivation
• Peer Reviewer: profile on Publons
work with Dr. Stephen D Shea, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
•Text sample: full research article Eckmeier & Shea, 2014
•Text sample: research proposal
work with Dr. Hans-Joachim Bischof, Bielefeld University
•Text sample: full research article Eckmeier et al, 2013
word template for journal-style manuscript formatting
In 2014, I made a word template to format a manuscript like a “real” paper, based on my own submission to bioRxiv. This template is free to use, but please don’t forget the attribution!
“I just used your template for our latest @biorxivpreprint and it was beautiful”
Dr. Leslie Vosshall,
Robin Chemers Neustein Professor,
The Rockefeller University
via Twitter, 17. August 2018