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.
Ueli Grossniklaus
Professor of Plant Developmental Genetics and Assistant Director of the Institute of Plant Biology of the University of Zurich. Co-leader of the University Research Priority Program "Evolution in Action: from Genomes to Ecosystems". Past-President of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center. Recipient of the various fellowships, the Amerbach Award, a Searle Scholarship, and Awardee of an ERC Advanced Grant. Elected member of EMBO and the German Academy of Science Leopoldina.
Katsuhiko Shirahige
Professor, Laboratory of Genome Structure and Function, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo.
Director of Research Center for Epigenetic Disease, The University of Tokyo
Shahryar F. Kianian
Research Leader, USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory. Previously, Professor of genetics and plant improvement, Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University. Faculty of Cellular & Molecular Biology and Genomics interdisciplinary programs. Recipient of 2002 Yaggie Excellence in Research Award, 1989 Withaker Prize, and 1984 Gerard Award.
Judith Klumperman
Professor of Cell Biology, Chair of the Cell Biology Department University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht, Head of the Cell Microscopy Center (CMC) of the UMC Utrecht.
Editorial boards of: Traffic, Histochemistry and Cell Biology, Biology of the Cell, Molecul
B. Matija Peterlin
Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF. Finland Distinguished Professor, Virology, U. Helsinki, Finland. Visiting Professor, Insitute of Biochemistry, U. Ljubljana, Slovenia. Member, IJS Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Also member, Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences. Received various awards including the Alexander von Humboldt Prize, and the Ambassador for Science of the Republic of Slovenia.
Ji Hoon Jeong
Associated professor in college of medicine, Chung-Ang university.
Andrew B. Lassar
Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School.
Amato J. Giaccia
Professor of Radiation Oncology, Associate Chair for Research & Director of the Division of Radiation & Cancer Biology in the Department of Radiation Oncology. Head of the Radiation Biology Program in Stanford's Cancer Center, & Director of the Cancer Biology Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. Co-authored the 6th/7th editions of the textbook, "Radiation Biology for the Radiologist". Currently the Jack, Lulu and Sam Willson Professor in Cancer Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine
Stuart A. Lipton
Adjunct Professor of Neurosciences; Professor and Director, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute; Professor (adjunct), Salk Institute for Biological Studies and The Scripps Research Institute.
Neurologist/neuroscientist Stuart Lipton, MD, PhD is a renowned expert in dementia. He was trained at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. In addition to running a basic-science laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute, he has an active clinical neurology practice at UC San Diego focusing on dementia and general neurology. Lipton completed his PhD thesis research with John Dowling at Harvard, followed by clinical residency and a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard with Torsten Wiesel during the time that Wiesel won the Nobel prize. He was then on the Harvard faculty for over 20 years before moving to La Jolla as founding director of a new neuroscience center in 2000.
Drew Endy
Faculty of Bioengineering, Stanford University. Helped start BioBricks (biobricks.org) and iGEM (igem.org), and is a member of the US National Advisory Board for Biosecurity (biosecurityboard.gov).
Rachel L. Allen
Head of the Graduate School at St George's, University of London.