Nature Masterclasses has been developed by Nature Portfolio to provide professional development training for researchers. Nature Portfolio is part of Springer Nature, a leading academic and educational publisher. Nature Portfolio's flagship publication is Nature; a weekly multidisciplinary journal first published in 1869.

Nature Masterclasses began as a provider of scientific writing and publishing training — drawing on the expertise of Nature Portfolio journal editors. We expanded our training by launching two more online courses, Focus on Peer Review in 2016, and Effective Collaboration in Research, 2019. Our online offering grew further in 2020, with two new courses, Managing Research Data to Unlock its Full Potential and Narrative Tools for Researchers. To-date, over 50,000 researchers from over 180 countries have benefited from our training.

This is not a standard conference add-on. Bringing Nature Masterclass into the event in this way represents a distinctive enhancement to the attendee experience and reflects a broader commitment to creating meaningful value beyond the traditional conference format.

It gives attendees access to a professional development element that is both highly relevant and unusually integrated into the event experience. In short, it is an opportunity to engage with the conference in a more expansive and practical way than we typically offer.