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.
James M. Roberts
Research Chemist in the Chemical Sciences Division of the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory. Associate Editor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Member of the American Geophysical Union, American Chemical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Roberts has a long-standing interest in the organic chemistry of the atmosphere. He has worked on a variety of issues such as; the transport and chemistry of volatile organic compounds, the chemistry of organic nitrates and their contribution to the transport of atmospheric odd-nitrogen, the involvement of biogenic hydrocarbons in ozone and particle formation in the troposphere, the activation of chlorine by odd-nitrogen, and the atmospheric chemistry of acidic species.
Aaron R Quinlan
Aaron Quinlan, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Human Genetics and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary and his Ph.D. from Boston College where he focused on population genetics, new methods for emerging DNA sequencing technologies, and the discovery and characterization of genetic variation. He performed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia where he developed expertise in structural variation of mammalian genomes and somatic genome mutation. He started his laboratory at the University of Virginia in 2011 and began his faculty position at the University of Utah in early 2015. Broadly speaking, his research is focused on the development and application of new computational and statistical techniques for understanding the biology of the genome. His team tackles problems with practical importance to understanding genome variation, chromosome evolution and mining genetic variation related to human disease. Understanding the genome is a hard problem: we try to develop new approaches to gain insight into genome evolution in the context of disease.
Timo Lassmann
Head of computational biology and the genetics and rare disease program at the Telethon Kids Institute. Interested in sequence analysis, large scale data integration and medical genomics. Past: RIKEN, Karolinska Institute, King's College London.
Domenico Capolongo
Domenico Capolongo is associate professor of physical geography and geomorphology at University of Bari.
Research interests are in the field of geomorphology and environmental sciences.
In particular he studied the spatial and temporal distribution of erosion processes at different spatial and temporal scales in high rate evolving landscapes. The principal effort is an attempt to develop a better quantitative understanding of physical processes operating on the earth surface. He use some combination of theoretical, numerical and experimental approaches. Because the issue is to understand natural systems, integrating observations and field data (both of active processes and recorded in the geologic record) with theoretical and model results is also an essential component of his research.
He uses GIS, remote sensing and computer simulation as principal tool for qualitative and quantitative insight into this complex systems and as a virtual laboratory to explore theory by simulation.
Sarah J Butcher
Sarah Butcher did her PhD in EMBL Heidelberg, mentored by Stephen Fuller and Helen Saibil, she carried out postdoctoral training in the MRC Virology Unit in Glasgow, before moving to Helsinki University where she is currently Programme Director of the Structural Biology and Biophysics Programme, Institute of Biotechnology, Head of Instruct-FI National Affiliate Center, Finland & Head of National cryoEM facility. She works on macromolecular structure and assembly, especially of viruses.
Stefano Lorenzetti
Dr. Stefano Lorenzetti is a Senior Scientist within the Department of Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health at the Italian National Institute of Health.
His current main interests are on the development of both in vitro tools and functional biomarkers to screen the endocrine disrupting effects of environmental and dietary contaminants.
Joshy George
Associate Director fo Computational Sciences, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, CT, USA. Previously worked at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center in Melbourne Australia and at the Genome Institute of Singapore.
Ashith B Acharya
Dr. Ashith B. Acharya is an Australia-trained forensic odontologist – having completed his Bachelor’s degree in dentistry in 1999 and his postgraduation in 2001 – and heads India’s first exclusive department of forensic odontology in SDM College of Dental Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka. With over 18 years academic experience, he teaches undergraduate and graduate students, and serves as a consultant in forensic dental, anthropological, and archeological cases referred by the police, government agencies and forensic medical experts from across India. He is a founder-member of the Indian Association of Forensic Odontology and currently its Secretary. He is an editorial board member/reviewer in several national and international journals; he has served as a member of the International Organisation for Forensic Odonto-Stomatology’s Age Estimation Workgroup and is currently on its Bite Marks Workgroup. He has published 45 journal articles, 35 of which have appeared in top international forensic and dental journals; he has also contributed to government reports, and chapters on forensic odontology to eminent textbooks such as Shafer’s Textbook of Oral Pathology.
Ian J Majewski
My research group is working to identify genetic mutations that contribute to the development of leukaemia, and studying how these mutations influence a patient’s response to therapy. The cancer landscape is both complex and dynamic and we're using genomic approaches to study how cancer cells evolve in response to treatment.
Abhijit Mitra
Dr. Abhijit Mitra, Associate Professor and former Head, Dept. of Marine Science, University of Calcutta (INDIA) has been active in the sphere of Oceanography since 1985. He obtained his Ph.D as NET qualified scholar in 1994. Since then he joined Calcutta Port Trust and WWF (World Wide Fund), in various capacities to carry out research programmes on environmental science, biodiversity conservation, climate change and carbon sequestration. Presently Dr. Mitra is serving as the advisor of Oceanography Division of Techno India University, Kolkata. He has to his credit about 445 scientific publications in various National and International journals, and 35 books of postgraduate standards. Dr. Mitra is presently the member of several committees like PACON International, IUCN, SIOS etc. and has successfully completed about 16 projects on biodiversity loss in fishery sector, coastal pollution, alternative livelihood, climate change and carbon sequestration. Dr. Mitra also visited as faculty member and invited speakers in several foreign Universities of Singapore, Kenya, Oman and USA. In 2008, Dr. Mitra was invited as visiting fellow at University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, USA to deliver a series of lecture on Climate Change. Dr. Mitra also successfully guided 32 Ph.D students. Presently his domain of expertise includes environmental science, mangrove ecology, sustainable aquaculture, alternative livelihood, climate change and carbon sequestration.
Paul T Griffiths
Lecturer at Bristol in atmospheric chemistry. I use models to study atmospheric chemistry, climate and their feedbacks
Tarek Rashed
ٍSenior Research Professor and Director of Geoinformatics at the Polis Center, IUPUI. Dr Rashed is a Geospatial Information Technologies Research Scientist with over 24 years of experience in GIS and spatial decision making and their applications. His research interests span several areas including geographic information science, remote sensing, smart cities, big data, disaster risk management, mitigation, multicriteria decision making, urban resilience, and planning.