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.
Jun-Lin Guan
Professor of Internal Medicine and of Cell and Developmental Biology at University of Michigan Medical School. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Bert Poolman
Professor of Biochemistry & Program director of the Centre for Synthetic Biology. Focus area leader of the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials. Board member of the Netherlands Proteomics Centre. Coordinator of Network for Integrated Cellular Homeostasis. Elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
Wendy Dean
Senior Research Scientist, Epigenetics Programme, The Babraham Institute
Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK.
Victor J. Hruby
Regents Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arizona. Professor of Neuroscience recently inducted into the ACS Hall of Fame and 2011 ACS Goodman Award for Scientific Excellence and Mentorship.
Jang-Yen J.Y. Wu
Senior Schmidt Fellow and Distinguished Professor, Department of Biomedical Science of Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University. Recipient of Award in Science and Technology of Taiwanese-American Foundation in 2005. Associate Editor of Journal of Biomedical Science.
Ana M Soto
Research interests: cell proliferation, breast and prostate cancer, endocrine disruptors. In collaboration with Dr. Sonnenschein she proposed the tissue organization field theory, which posits that cancer is a problem of tissue organization and that the default state of metazoan cells, like that of unicellular organisms, is proliferation. She also works on the clarification of epistemological issues arising from the study of complex biological phenomena.
Godfrey D Pearlson
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology at Yale University School of Medicine and founding Director of the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center at the Institute of Living, Hartford, CT. Medical school, University of Newcastle/Tyne, UK. Graduate degree in philosophy, Columbia University, NY. Psychiatry chief residency & postdoctoral training, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Founding Director & Professor, Division of Psychiatry Neuroimaging, Johns Hopkins SOM.
John H. Morrison
Dean of Basic Sciences and the Graduate School of Biological Sciences and Professor of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Former President of the Cajal Club and The Harvey Society, and current member of Council for the Society for Neuroscience. Merit Award recipient from NIH.
Dr. Morrison is also the Willard T.C. Johnson Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine in Neurobiology of Aging, and Professor in the Friedman Brain Institute.
Hugh Possingham
Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Ecology. Director of The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions. Director of The National Environment Research Program hub for Environmental Decisions
Janet Shipley
Leader of the Sarcoma Molecular Pathology Team, Divisions of Molecular Pathology and Cancer Therapeutics at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London. Scientific member of the Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group, European Soft Tissue Sarcoma Group and subgroup of the National Cancer Research Institute Sarcoma Clinical Studies Group. Previous positions include London Research Institute and Genetics Division of Harvard, Children’s Hospital, Boston USA.
Lil E. Valentin
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lund University, Sweden. Fellow ad eundum of the Royal Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (UK). Former editor of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Former chairman and secretary of the Swedish society of medical ultrasound. Member of European Committee for Medical Ultrasound Safety, member of Clinical Standards Committe of International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Ingrid Kreissig
University Professor, MD; Professor h.c. of Ufa Eye Research Institute; Adjunct Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell University, USA; Professor of Ophthalmology, Dept. of Ophthalmology Univ. of Mannheim, Heidelberg, Germany. Former Chairman of Department of Ophthalmology University of Tuebingen, Germany. Author of 3 books on Retinal Detachment Surgery.