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.
Steven YC Tong
Infectious diseases physician at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital. Co-head Translational and Clinical Research and Co-head Indigenous Health at Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne. Deputy Chair of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network.
Matteo Vandoni
Matteo Vandoni is the scientific director of the Laboratory of Adapted Motor Activity of the University of Pavia.
His research topics are: the study of childhood obesity and diabetes exercise - the changes in the autonomic nervous system in pediatric and adult subjects - the study of the implications of physical exercise on health – the study of functional performance in developmental age.
Mohd Noor Norhayati
Dr. Mohd Noor Norhayati is an Associate Professor and Medical lecturer within the Department of Family Medicine at Universiti Sains Malaysia.
She is a Public Health Physician who specializes in Maternal Health. Dr. Norhayati is also a trainer for Cochrane reviews.
Mather A Khan
Dr. Mather A Khan is a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Botanik, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany. Before moving to Germany, Dr. Khan worked as a Postdoctoral fellow and then as a Research Scientist at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA.
Dr. Khan’s research interest is mainly focused on understanding the mechanisms mediating the uptake and accumulation of essential (Iron, Fe; Zinc, Zn) and toxic metals (Cadmium, Cd) in plants. He is using state-of-the-art techniques including cell-specific transcriptomics, functional genomics, and ionomics to understand how plants take up, distribute and accumulate micronutrients and toxic elements within plant tissues, including seeds. During his stay at the University of Missouri, Dr. Khan discovered that leaves seem to sense the Fe status of the whole plant before roots that in contrast to the traditional view of nutrient sensing by plant roots. His research suggests that leaves integrate signals from different tissues and relay the information on the Fe status to roots to trigger, or not, an Fe deficiency response (i.e. increased Fe uptake).
He joined the Institute of Botanik, Heinrich Heine University in January 2021, where his research continues to explore the seed loading mechanism of Fe and Zn and develop strategies to optimize crops for higher protein and nutritional value which are essential for future agriculture production to ensure food security and reduce malnutrition and poverty.
Bruno Lomonte
Professor at the Instituto Clodomiro Picado, University of Costa Rica (ICP-UCR). Member of the Costa Rican National Academy of Sciences and of the International Society on Toxinology, Coordinator of the Proteomics Lab at the ICP-UCR. His research has focused on snake venoms, particularly on myotoxic phospholipases A2, and on antivenoms.
David W Johnston
Dave Johnston is a biological oceanographer and marine conservation ecologist whose research focuses on the habitat needs of marine vertebrates in relation to pressing conservation issues.
Jingbo Wang
Prof Wang's research spans several disciplines including quantum dynamics theory, quantum computation and information, atomic physics, and computational science. She has published extensively, including a recent book published by Springer, four book chapters, and numerous journal papers. Prof Wang currently leads the quantum dynamics and computation group at The University of Western Australia. She and her research team have developed advanced numerical techniques to solve problems in both quantum and classical domain.
Dario T Bonetta
Associate professor in Faculty of Science at Ontario Tech University. Co-founder Metasys Genomics Corp. Interests include: biologically based materials derived from plant and bacterial sources; plant and animal development; inter-kingdom signalling and cell communication.
Coen J. Ritsema
Professor of Soil Physics and Land Management at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Recipient of Honorary Professorships at i) Deakin University, Australia, ii) the Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, and iii) Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering, Russia.
Shuihua Wang
Shuihua Wang received her B.S. Degree in information science and engineering from Southeast University in Nanjing, China, in 2008; the M. S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York, USA in 2012, and the Ph. D degree in Electrical Engineering from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, in 2017. She visited Kyushu Institute of Technology in 2017. From 2013 to 2018 she joined Nanjing Normal University, and worked as an assistant professor. From 2018-2019, she served in Loughborough University. She is now working as a research associate at the University of Leicester. Her research interests focus on Machine learning, Deep learning, biomedical image processing. She has published over 30 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences in these research areas. She was serving as a professional reviewer for many well-reputed journals and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Neuron Computing, Pattern recognition, scientific reports, and so on. She is currently serving as Guest Editor-in-Chief of Multimedia Systems and Applications, Associate editor of Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and IEEE Access. She is a member of the IEEE.
Andrew J Weightman
Professor of Microbiology and Division Leader (Organisms & Environment) at Cardiff University, School of Biosciences
Theerapong Krajaejun
Professor of Clinical Pathology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.