Your first encounter with the review process can be a disheartening experience: Laborious, time-consuming and unfulfilling. Unfortunately, there is no way around it: if you want a career in research, you need to publish in peer-reviewed journals. This means responding to reviews of your own work and reviewing the work of other scientists. In this short course you will get the chance to “meet your reviewer” and learn how to navigate the review process. Panel members Julienne Stroeve (senior research scientist, NSIDC, USA), Benjamin Rabe (researcher, AWI, Germany) and Helle Kjær (post-doc, CIC, Denmark) discuss their experiences, tips and tricks both as an author and a reviewer. The floor is open for questions such as “How do I respond to a review in the best way?”, “What should I do if I strongly disagree with a reviewer?”, “How do I write a good and fair review?”, “What is the role of the editor?”, and many more. The course is aimed at new researchers who want to know where to begin but those with a few publications under their belts are also welcome.