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.
Simone Riehl
Lecturer for Environmental Archaeology at the University of Tübingen. Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship, Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Heisenberg awardee at the University of Freiburg. Member of the Tübingen-Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoecology. Archaeobotanist in several archaeological excavations in the Near East, including Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan and Iran.
Ece Uzun
Dr. Ece Uzun is the Director of Clinical Bioinformatics at Lifespan Academic Medical Center and Assistant Professor at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Brown University Alpert Medical School. In her clinical work, Dr. Uzun focuses on building bioinformatics analysis pipelines, developing algorithms, tools and databases to aid in clinical variant detection and annotation. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Uzun's research group develops novel algorithms to analyze big data and gene networks with a focus on complex disorders such as cancer and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Dieter LD Deforce
Dieter Deforce PharmD, PhD, head of the Lab for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Gent, Belgium. He is chair of the Belgian Medicines Committee, he is member of the Scientific Advise Working Party of the EMA. He is a partner in NXT-GNT, a research consortium providing the research community next generation DNA-sequencing. He is also a partner in the Bioinformatics Institute Ghent From Nucleotides to Networks (BIG N2N) of the University Ghent. He is member of the board of directors of the VIB.
Research focuses around applying proteomics and genomics platforms (including Next Generation Sequencing) in the field of stem cell development, prenatal genetic diagnosis, (auto-)immunity and forensics.
Michael T Lynskey
Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine
Eleni Vasilaki
I am Professor of Bioinspired Machine Learning at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Sheffield and the head the Machine Learning group. Prior to my Academic appointment in Sheffield, I was Scientific Collaborator in the groups of Prof. Wulfram Gerstner at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Prof. Walter Senn at the University of Bern. I hold a PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (University of Sussex), a Masters in Microelectronics (University of Athens) and a Bachelors degree (with distinction) in Informatics & Telecommunications (University of Athens). I am a Chartered Engineer, registered with the Engineering Council UK in membership of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Fernando Lidon
Prof. Fernando Lidon is Full Professor within the Department of Earth Sciences in the Faculty of Science and Technology of the New University of Lisbon.
His research interests include, Phytotechnology, Food Technology, Biochemistry, Plant Physiology and Agro Industry.
Eli N. Perencevich
Professor of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Director, Center for Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research & Evaluation (CADRE), Iowa City VA Healthcare System. Primary research areas: infection prevention, multi-drug resistant bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus
Helen E Parkinson
Dr Helen Parkinson head of Molecular Archival Resources at EMBL-EBI and leads the Samples, Phenotypes and Ontologies team, delivering databases, data integration tools and ontologies for biomedicine. She is also Interim Team Leader for the Variation Archive team. Trained as a geneticist, Helen's research focused on Drosophila biology, behaviour, molecular biology and medical genetics. Helen's passion is semantic data integration and providing users with useful data. Her team participates extensively in external collaborations ranging from data analysis and generation projects to infrastructural integration projects such as the ELIXIR initiatives BioMedBridges, CORBEL and EXELERATE. In collaboration with partners in the KOMP2 project and the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium, Helen's SPOT team manages, analyses, and distributes complex phenotypic data from knockout mouse lines and promotes mouse data integration internationally.They also develop open-source software tools for managing data, developing and integrating ontologies and data, and integrating semantic web technologies.
Prior to joining EMBL-EBI in 2000, Helen was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Leicester, where she worked on the genetic basis of Primary Pulmonary Hypertension, Hyphophatasia and synteny at human chromosomes 7 and 12. Her PhD thesis examined the temperature compensation of circadian rhythms in Drosophila with Professor Bambos Kyriacou.
Stefan D Baral
Stefan Baral is a physician epidemiologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (JHSPH). Stefan has led epidemiological studies among key populations including men who have sex with men and sex workers in Southern, Eastern, and Western African countries as well as in Central and Southeastern Asia. Stefan acts as the Director of the Key Populations Program for the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the JHSPH.
Kathryn A Gold
Associate Professor, Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego
Kejal Kantarci
Associate Professor of Radiology
2014 Elected Member - Lewy Body Disease Association Scientific Advisory Council
2012 Elected Secretary of the Psychiatric MR Spectroscopy and Imaging Study Group -
International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
2008 Dorothy Dillon Eweson Lecture Series Award - American Federation for Aging Research
2008 Excellence Through Teamwork Award - Mayo Clinic
2007 Beeson Award - National Institute on Aging, American Federation of Aging Research, John Hardford Foundation, Atlantic Philantropies, and Starr Foundation
2005 Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Development Award (NIH K12 Roadmap Initiative) - Clinical Research Scholars Program
2004 New Investigator Award - Alzheimer's Association
Glen M Borchert
Dr. Glen Borchert holds joint appointments as an Assistant Professor in Biology and Pharmacology at the University of South Alabama. He originally received a B.S. in Biology from the University of Tennessee then completed a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Iowa. Dr. Borchert’s research focuses largely on identifying novel genetic regulators and defining their roles in oncogenesis, microbiology and speciation. Since starting his laboratory at South Alabama in August 2012, Dr. Borchert has published dozens of papers in peer reviewed journals and had numerous grant applications funded including a highly prestigious NSF CAREER award (2014-2019).