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.
Rosemary E Kiernan
Research Director, CNRS. With an interest in understanding the mechanisms that contribute to the silencing or activation of mammalian genes.
Gizachew Tessema
Dr. Gizachew Tessema is a perinatal and reproductive epidemiologist and health care services researcher with research interest that employed advanced statistical analyses, mixed methods research (MMR), and qualitative study. He is currently based at the Curtin School of Population Health, Curtin University.
Martina Schroeder
Dr Martina Schroeder is a Lecturer and Head of the Host-Pathogen Interaction Lab at Maynooth University. Her research addresses viral recognition, innate immune signaling pathways, and the roles of DEAD-box proteins in immunity. Previously Dr Schroeder conducted postdoctoral research with Prof. Andrew Bowie at Trinity College Dublin. In 2007, she was awarded a postdoctoral career development fellowship by the Irish HRB. She completed her PhD at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin in 2003.
Davide Barreca
Davide Barreca is an Associate Professor of biochemistry at the University of Messina. He is specialized in enzyme modulation by natural compounds, inhibition of protein aggregation and activation of signal apoptotic cascade. Most of his research projects concentrate on separation and identification of unknown flavonoids, structural-activity elucidation, and biochemical analysis of their health promoting or cytotoxicity properties on cells culture. He is author of over 110 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 35 chapters in books, and 70 conference proceedings and reviewer of over 40 international scientific journals.
Leonard I Wassenaar
Leonard Wassenaar is Executive Director of the André E. Lalonde Accelerator Mass Spectrometry and Envirionmental Radioisotope Laboratory at the University of Ottawa. Previously, he served as the Laboratory and Section Head for Isotope Hydrology at IAEA, Vienna, from 2012 to 2021, and was the head of the Isotope Hydrology and Ecology Laboratory at Environment Canada, Saskatoon, from 1991 to 2012. Len's research focuses on applying isotopes to study freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems.
Hans G Dam
I am a biological oceanographer currently interested in plankton ecology and evolution. Currently, I use evolutionary ecology approaches to study the response of planktonic populations of copepods and some phytoplankton to global change drivers. I am also interested in harmful algal blooms, particularly in the evolution of toxic prey defense mechanisms and predator tolerance or resistance to these prey.
Lennart Seizer
Dr. Lennart Seizer is a a biologist, psychologist, neuro immunologist, and post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Dr. Seizer's areas of expertise include psycho neuroimmunology, time-series analysis, and ambulatory assessment.
Claudia Colesie
I obtained my Diploma in 2009 in the group of Prof. Burkhard Büdel, at the University of Kaiserslautern. For my doctoral work, I joined an international collaboration within a New Zealand research project under the leadership of Prof. T.G. Allan Green and Prof. Craig Cary; NZTabs; both at University of Waikato. After finishing my PhD thesis I continued working in the group of Burkhard Büdel as a lecturer with the opportunity to additionally join a trans-European BioDiversa project.
As a direct consequence from these experiences I learned that tundra ecosystems, where low temperatures and short growing seasons limit tree growth but water availability is high, are highly productive soil crusts habitats. I, therefore, collaborated in the POLARCRUST project that focused on biological soil crusts from the Antarctic Peninsula and Arctic Svalbard coordinated by Ulf Karsten, University of Rostock, Germany. In addition, I started my project as an Alexander-von Humboldt research fellow within the group of Prof. Vaughan Hurry at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Umeå. Additionally, I am currently involved in a research Project (CRYPTOCOVER), with Prof. Leopoldo Sancho (Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain.I will start working as a lecturer for plant physiological ecology at the University of Edinburgh with the School of Geosciences in the Climate change Institute from January 2019.
Marco Painho
Marco Painho is a Professor of Geographic Information Systems and Science at the Nova School of Information Management (NOVA IMS) of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. He holds a degree in Environmental Engineering by the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, a Master in Regional Planning by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a PhD in Geography by the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the coordinator of the Master in Geographic Information Systems and Science (UNIGIS PT) and the Master od Science in Geospatial Technologies (Erasmus Mundus). He has over 30 years of experience in the GIS domain and coordinated over 100 projects in the application areas of the environment, natural resources management transportation, teaching among others. He is the author and editor of over 200 academic and professional publications.
Kathleen Marchal
Associate Professor Bioinformatics, Department of Bioinformatics and Plant Biotechnology, Ghent University, Belgium; VIB department Plant Systems Biology. Associate Professor Bioinformatics, Department of Microbial and Molecular Plant Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium. Recipient of the DSM award 2000. Recipient of the Biannual Siemens award 2002. Associate editor of BMC Release notes, BMC Bioinformatics, Journal of Integrative Omics
Tessa B Francis
Tessa Francis is the Lead Ecosystem Ecologist at the Puget Sound Institute, and the Managing Director of the Ocean Modeling Forum. Tessa holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley; a B.S. in Wildlife Science from the University of Washington; and a Ph.D. in Zoology and Urban Ecology from the University of Washington.
Anna K. Croft
Professor at Loughborough University, specialising in biological chemistry, reaction mechanisms, and ionic liquids.