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.
Paraskevi Nomikou
Dr Nomikou Paraskevi, Assistant Professor of Physical Geography and Geological Oceanogrpahy has PhD in marine geodynamics (2004) and has participated in more than 70 oceanographic cruises that have focused on the study of submarine volcanism, mud volcanoes, landslides and slope stability and the exploration of seafloor mineral deposits. She has developed a unique understanding of the new-technological methods for deep-sea exploration and successfully integrated them into International research programs. More recently, she has played a leading role in the evaluation of the potential hazards associated with renewed volcanic activity at Santorini volcano in Greece in 2011. Her studies of the underwater area of the volcano where new earthquakes and deformation have been taking place are critical to the ongoing evaluation of future eruption scenarios. She has been a key-person for both local civil officials and the general population to understand the geological processes that might occur and what would be appropriate. She has also been involved in the study of economically important seafloor mineral deposits within the crater of the submarine volcano Kolumbo, off the coast of Santorini. She is focused in forming key research alliances between scientists in different disciplines thus creating powerful interdisciplinary synergies. Her involvement in various EU projects and high volume of publications has established strong collaborations with world-class institutions across Europe
Norbert A.R. Maïonchi-Pino
Since 2012, I am an Associate Professor in Cognitive and Developmental Psychology at Université Blaise Pascal. I work on learning and reading disorders (e.g., developmental dyslexia), psycholinguistics and reading acquisition.
Michael M. Hoffman
Michael Hoffman creates predictive computational models to understand interactions between genome, epigenome, and phenotype in human cancers. His influential machine learning approaches have reshaped researchers' analysis of gene regulation. These approaches include the genome annotation method Segway, which enables simple interpretation of multivariate genomic data. He is a Senior Scientist in and Chair of the Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Associate Professor in the Departments of Medical Biophysics and Computer Science, University of Toronto. He was named a CIHR New Investigator and has received several awards for his academic work, including the NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, and the Ontario Early Researcher Award.
Nicole L La Gruta
Prof La Gruta's research focuses on understanding the key determinants of effective antiviral CD8+ T cell responses, both with respect to magnitude and TCR usage. She is also interested in how thymic selection influences the composition of naive epitope-specific T cell populations and how aging impacts intrinsic CD8+ T cell function.
Arja L.T. Uusitalo
I am high level professional in the field of research (for 25 years), academic teaching, health care leadership and quality work. My Medical Specialties are clinical physiology and nuclear medicine and sports and exercise medicine. I have experience and additional education in leadership and management (UEF and LUT), service design and quality in clinical practice, and experience in lean management and process. Lately, I have worked with health technology and digitalization and preventive health care. My deepest knowledge is in stress research and physiology and interests in technology in welfare sector to improve quality, productivity, processes and occupational health.
Rumiana Dimova
Group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces since 2005
PhD in Biophysics from Bordeaux University
Awarded the Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics in 2014
Research interests: mechanical, rheological and electrical properties of membranes, colloidal interactions, molecular crowding
Jesse O Bash
A Research Physical Scientist, in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Exposure Research Laboratory, Computational Exposure Division; Past Physical Scientist in U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Air Resources Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division.
Research is focused on developing and expanding the capabilities of current air-quality and biogeochemical models to better represent the nitrogen cycle, mercury cycle and atmospheric mercury chemistry, and the coupling of ecosystem and air-quality models.
Julietta U Frey
1985-89 Res Assoc, INH Acad Sci GDR
1990-91 Head Lab "Hippocampal Slices",
1990-91 Res Ass., HHMI
1992-98 Head "Gene Regul & Plasticity", IfN
1998-2012 Head Dept. Neurophysiol IfN
2001- Prof Neurophysiol Med Fac Magdeburg
2006 Intern Acad Sci Health and Ecol
2008 Member of the Found Board of Dirs Dementia-Center Magdeburg
2013 Prof in Neurol and Charbonnier Prof BBDI USA
Prof in Human Physiol 1st Moscow State Med Univ
Presidium member Int Acad Sci Health & Ecol
Patrizia Longone
Team Leader of the Molecular Neurobiology Unit, Experimental Neurology, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy.
Adjunct Professor of Physiology for the Graduate Course of Nursing and the Graduate Course of Speech Therapy, University of “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy.
Jan Dolfing
PhD in Environmental Microbiology from Wageningen University in The Netherlands. Post-doctoral experience at Michigan State University (with Jim Tiedje) and EAWAG/ETH in Switzerland (With Rene Schwarzenbach and Joseph Zeyer).
My main interest is in the applicability and application of thermodynamic logic to microbial processes and interactions in methanogenic ecosystems. Ongoing projects include: Reductive dechlorination of chlordecone, a legacy compound used for pest control in the French West Indies.
Mathieu Lihoreau
Dr. Mathieu Lihoreau is CNRS researcher based at the Research Center on Animal Cognition (CRCA) / Center for Integrative Biology (CBI) of the University Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III. His research interests focus on the evolutionary relationships between brains, cognition and sociality.
Lisa DeBruine
Lisa DeBruine leads the Face Research Lab (facelab.org), which investigates the social perception of faces, voices and bodies. Her meta-scientific interests include team science (especially the Psychological Science Accelerator), open documentation, data simulation, web-based tools for data collection and stimulus generation, and teaching computational reproducibility. Her projects and tutorials are available at debruine.github.io