The FEBS Journal in 2020: Open Access and quality versus quantity publishing

Seamus Martin holds the Smurfit Chair of Medical Genetics at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His laboratory works on diverse aspects of cell death control, including the role of ‘death receptors’ as initiators of inflammation and the role of IL‐1 family cytokines as key initiators of inflammation in the context of necrotic cell death. Seamus received the GlaxoSmithKline Award of The Biochemical Society (2006) and The RDS‐Irish Times Boyle Medal (2015) for his work on the role of caspases in apoptosis and was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2006 and EMBO in 2009. He is the Editor‐in‐Chief of The FEBS Journal since 2014.