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.
Eija Jokitalo
Research Director of Electron Microscopy Unit and Group leader of Morphological determinants of the endoplasmic reticulum –group within the Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki. Chair of EM Consortium, National Imaging Infrastructure Network, Biocenter Finland Technology Platform.
Giuseppe Lanza
Dr. Giuseppe Lanza was born in Catania (Italy) in 1982. He currently works as a Senior Academic Researcher and Assistant Professor at the University of Catania (Italy). After graduation with honours in Medicine, he trained at the School of Neurology and got the international PhD at the same University. As visiting Clinical Research Fellow, he further trained at the Department of Neuroscience and Clinical Neurophysiology of the Newcastle University (UK). In 2013 he was selected for a Scientific Fellowship promoted by the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS). From 2013 to October 2018, he worked as a Consultant Neurologist at the “Oasi Research Institute–IRCCS” in Troina (Italy), which is a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization (WHO), and where now he currently holds the position of Chief of the Clinical Neurophysiology Research Unit. From 2015 to October 2018, he taught Neurology at the University of Enna (Italy). He has authored more than 150 publications in internationally-indexed peer-reviewed Journals and Conferences or Meetings, and he currently serves as Editor and invited Reviewer of several international Journals. More recently, he has obtained the Master of Science in Clinical Research and the National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor (procedure for the Italian University Professor recruiting, based on criteria of scientific qualification).
Francisco Javier Miana-Mena
I am a Veterinary Doctor since 2002. The results obtained in my Doctoral Thesis served as the beginning of a line of research on neurodegenerative diseases. Although I have participated in other research groups working within the field of oxidative stress and muscle bioengineering, my work has never moved away from the study of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Since 2005 I work at the University of Zaragoza, within the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, until today. In this time I have published around 30 articles in international scientific journals indexed in the JCR.
I have done research stays at the Pasteur Institute in Paris (France), at the Cochin Hospital in Paris (France) and the University of Granada (Spain).
Sophie Scott
Group Leader of the Speech Communication Lab and Deputy Director at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow. Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience. Honorary Degree from the University of Poppleton.
Scott is known for her public engagement work, including performing standup comedy, and was featured in a September 2013 edition of the BBC Radio Four programme The Life Scientific. In March 2014, she was invited to give a Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution on the science of laughter. Her work on laughter has also toured science fairs and exhibitions as part of the Laughter_lab project. She has been awarded a UCL Provost's Award for Public Engagement. Sophie Scott will be presenting the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2017. Entitled 'The language of life', the Lectures will explore the topic of communication.
Christine J Watson
Professor of Cell and Cancer Biology in the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge. Graduate of the University of Glasgow and Imperial College, London.
Seung-Chul Kim
The Curator of the Ha Eun Herbarium (SKK) and Professor of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. Program Director for the Korean Society of Plant Taxonomists.
Hatice Gökçe Hasanhocaoğlu
After graduating from Food Engineering, I completed my M.Sc and Ph.D in seafood processing technology. Finished my doctoral thesis titled as "Effect Of Some Microbiological Metabolites On Specific Spoilage Microorganisms In Gilthead Sea Bream (Sparus aurata), And Their Usage Potential In Cold Storage" in 2020. My studies focus on important microorganisms in food technology.
Maria Almuedo-Castillo
I obtained the Biology degree from the University of Sevilla in June 2008. For my PhD, I then joined Drs. Saló and Adell lab at the Genetics Department of the UB. Using the planarian S. mediterranea due to its amazing regenerative abilities, I demonstrated the role of specific signaling pathways in processes that allow regeneration of a proportioned body plan. I graduated with honors in Genetics in July 2014 and for my postdoctorate I decided to join Dr. Müller laboratory at the Max Planck Institute of Tübingen (Germany) in October 2014, to get an interdisciplinary training in Systems Biology and learn about Biophysics and computer modeling. In June 2015 I was awarded with an EMBO long-term postdoctoral fellowship. I studied how tissue patterns scale with embryo size using a quantitative biophysical in vivo approach. We described how embryos adjust tissue proportions to the changing size of their bodies. In June 2018 I decided to come back home and develop my independent research career in Sevilla (Spain), where I am currently working as an associate researcher at CABD (CSIC/UPO/JA). In February 2019 I obtained a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship and in June 2019, a Junior Leader grant from Fundación Social La Caixa. Here I want to implement all my interdisciplinary acquired knowledge to study the complex formation of organs from a mechanical and patterning comprehensive perspective, using as an experimental paradigm the formation of the vertebrate eye.
Renu Batra-Safferling
Group Leader, Structural Biochemistry in Institute of Complex Systems (ICS-6) in Research Centre Juelich, Germany. Postdoctoral scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany (1996-1999) and at Columbia University, New York, USA (1999-2002). Primary focus of my research is to understand the structure-function relationships of soluble and membrane proteins of biological importance.
Andon Vassilev
Andon Vassilev, PhD, is a Professor of Plant Physiology and Head of Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry at Agricultural University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. His research interests are focused on plant responses to abiotic stress factors. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Agronomy and Crop science.
Thilina U. Jayawardena
Dr. Thilina Jayawardena is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow within the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Physics at the University of Québec at Trois-Rivières.
His primary areas of research include natural product chemistry, medicinal chemistry, and bioactive molecules, with a particular emphasis on specialized metabolites.
Jorge Kalil
Jorge Kalil is Professor of Clinical Immunology and Allergy and Director of the Laboratory of Immunology at the Heart Institute (InCor), School of Medicine, University of São Paulo (FMUSP), Brazil. He is Adjunct Professor at the George Washington University, DC, USA, and at the Case Westen University, Cleveland. He represents Latin America in the scientific advisory board of the International Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), an UNO Institution since 2013 and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences since 1995. Since 2001, he coordinates iii-Institute for Investigative Immunology, a National Institute linked to the Ministry of Science and Technology, in Brazil. In addition, he co-chairs the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies - FOCIS Center of Excellence in São Paulo and member of the Council of the USP Pasteur Institute’s board since 2018. He is member of the DSMB/NIH for analyses of phase 3 clinical trials of vaccines anti COVID supported by the US government and board member of COVAX, a WHO/GAVI/CEPI initiative to selecting and buying COVID vaccines to distribute to the world. Kalil graduated in Medicine in Brazil (1977), has a Master’s degree in Immunology and Immunogenetics and is Doctor of Science in Human Biology. He is currently developing vaccines against COVID-19 Streptococcus, HIV, Dengue and Zika in advanced scientific stage.