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.

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Gwyneth C Ingram

CNRS Research Director and group leader in the Laboratory of Plant Reproduction and Development at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. Royal Society of London University Research Fellow, then lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, UK from 2000-2010.

Primo Schär

PhD University of Berne, Switzerland with Prof. J. Kohli; Research focus: Yeast genetics, mechanisms of meiotic recombination.

Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Berne, Switzerland with Prof. J. Kohli; Research focus: Yeast genetics and DNA Mismatch Repair in Meiotic Recombination.
Postdoctoral fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (Cancer Research UK), London UK, with Prof. Tomas Lindahl; Research focus: Function of DNA ligases in yeast and mammalian DNA repair, DNA base excision repair.

Junior research group leader at the Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zürich, Switzerland; Research focus: Genome Stability, DNA double strand-break repair and DNA base excision repair in yeast and mammalian cells.

Since 2003 Professor and research group leader at the Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland; Research focus: Molecular mechanisms underlying (Epi)Genome plasticity in stem cells, DNA base excision repair in DNA demethylation and cell fate programming.

Yanhong Tang

Current: Chair Professor/Dean, Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China.

Past: Senior (Principle) Researcher, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan

Avelino F Arellano

Associate Professor of Data Assimilation and Atmospheric Chemistry at the Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona (UA). He is also a faculty member of the following UA Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs (GIDP): Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis and Applied Mathematics.

His research focuses on investigating human fingerprints in the atmosphere. His research combines numerical models and observations to study atmospheric constituents, especially those emitted from combustion-related activities, and how these constituents affect air quality, weather, climate, and our environment.

Aya Mousa

Dr Aya Mousa is a NHMRC biomedical research fellow and the Head of Diabetes, Metabolic and Reproductive Health research at the Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation (MCHRI), Monash University.

Dr Mousa leads a team at MCHRI focusing on diabetes, metabolic and reproductive disorders, which includes work in obesity, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome, and in pregnancy including gestational diabetes and the cross-talk between metabolic and reproductive disorders.

Kazuki Takakura

Dr. Jonas Frederikson is an orthopedic surgeon who believes that patient care should be a physician's first priority. He specializes in laparoscopic procedures that minimize pain and recovery time, and has expertise in minimally invasive total knee replacement surgeries. Awarded the Distinguished Service Award from the American Medical Association in 2017, Dr. Frederikson has been published in both the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine. He holds a medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina, where he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the field of orthopedic medicine.

Isabelle Mansuy

Isabelle Mansuy is Professor in Neuroepigenetics at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zürich (UZH) & the Department of Health Science and Technology of the ETHZ.

Dr. Mansuy is a member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Science, the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC), the Research Council of the Swiss National Foundation, of the Research Council of the Fyssen Foundation and of EMBO, and is elected Knight of the Legion of Honour in France after being elected Chevalier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite in 2011. She is acting in multiple review boards including the European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, CNRS, etc. She is chief co-editor of BioMolecular Concepts, and member of the editorial board of Hippocampus, Neurobiology of Diseases, Frontiers in Behavioral Neurosciences, Biology of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, and Frontiers in Epigenomics. She co-authored several reviews and books in the field of molecular cognition and neuroepigenetics.

Cathy M Craig

A graduate of Edinburgh University (MA and PhD; Psychology), Professor Cathy Craig worked for 8 years as a lecturer at the Sports Science Faculty, at the University of Aix-Marseille, France. In 2005 she joined Psychology at Queen’s as a senior lecturer in visual perception and was promoted to professor in 2010. She is now the Head of School of Psychology and the Director of the Movement Innovation Lab .

Isabel M Palacios

University at Madrid, Spain; PhD at EMBL Germany; Postdoc at the Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, UK; Group Leader as a Royal Society University Research Fellow and currently as a University Senior Research Fellow, Cambridge, UK. Also a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, UK

Alda Maria Ferreira

I have a master's degree in microbiology and PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology. I am an Associate Professor of Immunology at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. I have already supervised six master's and one doctoral students in the areas of biochemistry and infectious diseases.

My main area of interest is cellular and molecular biology of pathogens, infectious diseases and biological assays. So far I have published several papers involving studies in these areas.

I am the leader of a research group certified by the CNpQ (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) on biological assays with >Trypanosoma cruzi<, which is the etiologic agent of Chagas disease.

Pilar Prieto

CSIC
Education:
PhD in Biology Institute of Sustainable Agriculture, CSIC, and University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, September 2002.
Research interests:
Chromosome manipulation in cereals to facilitate the introgression of desirable agronomic traits from related wild species into crops such as wheat.
Use of biotechnological tools for plant meiosis studies to promote interespecific recombination in cereals.
Analysis of plant-microbe interactions using confocal microscopy.

Rubim Santos

Dr. Rubim Santos is Associate Professor at the School of Health, P. Porto and Director of the Center for Rehabilitation Research.

His primary research interests include biomechanics, human movement and postural control.