Academic Editors
The following people constitute the Editorial Board of Academic Editors for PeerJ. These active academics are the Editors who seek peer reviewers, evaluate their responses, and make editorial decisions on each submission to the journal. Learn more about becoming an Editor.
Anja Widdig
Present position:
Since 2010 Professor of Behavioral Ecology at the University Leipzig (UL), Bridging Professorship between UL and Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA) Leipzig, Germany.
Postdocs:
-2007-2014 Head of the Jr. Research Group of “Primate Kin Selection” at the MPI EVA, Emmy-Noether Group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
-2006-2007 Guest scientist MPI EVA
-2004-2006 Duke University, NC (USA)
Ph.D.:
1997-2002 Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Marta Giovanetti
My research focuses on investigating the patterns of gene flow in pathogen populations, focusing in phylogenetics and phylogeography as tools to recreate and understand the determinants of viral outbreaks and how this information can be translated into public policy recommendations. More specifically, my research focuses on recent arboviral outbreaks in Latin America (Zika, Chikungunya, Dengue and Yellow fever viruses and more recently SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil, Italy and South Africa), combining genetic, spatial and ecological information. I am interested in the epidemiology and ecology of viruses in natural populations. My research involves developing and applying techniques to integrate virus genetic data with traditional clinical and demographic data.
Koji Miwa
Dr. Koji Miwa is Associate Professor at Nagoya University. He is a psycholinguist, who takes an experimental approach in linguistics to study how language is “done” in the mind. Dr. Miwa is primarily investigating (1) how complex words are represented/processed in the mind and (2) how bilinguals read in one language with two languages in the mind.
Patricia C Wright
Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stony Brook University. Recipient of the Chevalier, Officier et Commandeur de Ordre National National Medal of Honor of Madagascar, from the President of Madagascar. Member of American Philosophical Society, Winner of Indianapolis Prize for Animal Conservation, MacArthur Genius Award, Herrnstein Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Conservation Biology at Stony Brook University.
Brett S Phinney
I am currently the director of the UC Davis Genome Center Proteomics Core and I am on the Executive board of the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (www.abrf.org). I obtained my Ph D. in Biology studying viral protein structure using mass spectrometry and did a Post-doc with the noted Mass Spectrometrist Jack Watson at Michigan State University before founding the Proteomics Core there and becoming the co-director of the Michigan State Proteome Consortium
Lucía DeSoto
Lecturer in Botany at Complutense University of Madrid
Ralf Paus
Professor Ralf Paus researches into the biology and pathology of the hair follicle, skin neuroendocrinology, and the science and applications of stem cells residing in human skin.
Alexis Dufresne
CNRS researcher in the ECOBIO lab (Ecology - Biodiversity - Evolution) at the university of Rennes 1.
My research interests center on the roles of microorganisms in ecosystem functioning of ecosystems and how microorganisms perceive and adapt to environmental changes. My current work focuses on microorganisms in groundwater and the relationship between hydrological and hydrochemical processes and the diversity and activity of microbial communities.
Jeff Price
Dr. Price is a Senior Researcher in the Tyndall Climate Change Centre, University of East Anglia. He is the coordinator of the Wallace Initiative, an Australia/U.K. collaboration examining the potential impacts of climate change on biodiversity (125,000 species examined) and ecosystem services at temperatures of 1.5° - 6°C. He is completing work on the Helix project where he coordinated the development of ClimaCrop, a new tool for looking at the impacts of climate change on crop yields and suitability. He was one of the lead authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third and Fourth Assessment Reports, (and contributing author on the Fifth) for which he shares in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the IPCC. He also served on the Convention on Biological Diversity Ad-hoc Technical Expert Group on Climate Change and Biodiversity, and contributed to the U.K. Government’s Stern Review of the Economic Impacts of Climate Change (looking at health, agriculture and biodiversity) and the U.S. National Assessment on Climate Change Impacts on the United States.
Małgorzata Wójcik
I am a physiotherapist with 26 years of experience (I am a therapist specialising in the following methods: NDT-Bobath, PNF, Cyriax, musculo-fascial relaxation) and DO osteopath (including pediatric osteopath).
I have a PhD degree and have published scientific articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. I focus on physiotherapy for children and adults with musculoskeletal disorders.I also work with women with endometriosis or prolapse of the reproductive organs.
Sean P. Palecek
Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Oluwaseun Adebayo Bamodu
Dr. Oluwaseun Adebayo Bamodu is a Medical Research Fellow in the Department of Urology at Tapein Medical University - Shuang Ho Hospital. His research interests include: Precision Medicine, Breast Cancer, Cancer Research, Cancer Stem Cells, Immuno-oncology, Cancer Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Prognosis, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Functional Urology, and Genitourinary Malignancies.