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.
Boyd A Mori
Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Ecological Entomology in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta.
Research in our lab focuses on varying aspects of insects in agricultural systems. Our focal areas of research include chemical ecology, population genetics, and insect-plant interactions. We use a variety of techniques from field and laboratory bioassays to transcriptomics and genomics to examine basic and applied ecological questions.
Ethan P White
Associate Professor in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida. Moore Foundation Investigator in Data-Driven Discovery. National Science Foundation CAREER 'Young Investigators' Award recipient. Member of the Data Carpentry and Impactstory boards of directors.
My research focuses on data-intensive questions in ecology, using large ecological datasets, advanced statistical/machine learning methods, and theoretical modeling to understand ecological patterns.
Hugo A. Kerhervé
I am a sport and exercise scientist with a multidisciplinary background in exercise physiology, biomechanics and motor control.
I am interested in multifactorial approaches to human acute and chronic adaptation to various stresses, through the study of:
- the factors of performance in individual and team sports in participants with and without disabilities;
- the human-equipment and human-environment interface in performance and injury prevention;
- exercise interventions for health and well-being throughout life and across cultures;
- age-specific and sex-specific factors of cardiovascular, biomechanical and neuromuscular adaptation.
Darren Norris
Lecturer at the Federal University of Amapá, Brazil. My research interests are broad and are currently focused on the conservation of biodiversity and traditional livelihoods around waterways that traverse political (national and international), cultural and ecological boundaries. I am particularly interested in inter-disciplinary approaches, comprising population and community ecology, population biology, landscape and spatial statistics.
Terje Svingen
Assoc. Prof. Svingen is Head of Research group for Molecular & Reproductive Toxicology at the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark (DTU Food). His research group focuses on how early life exposure to environmental chemicals, particularly endocrine disruptors, can adversely affect development and lead to disease. His research group conducts basic research alongside involvement in regulatory toxicology. Main focus is on the mechanisms of effects leading to reproductive and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Vanessa R Yingling
Dr. Yingling is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at California State University, East Bay. Her undergraduate degree was in Bioengineering from the University of California-San Diego. She obtained her master’s degree in Exercise Science from the University at Buffalo and her Ph.D. in Kinesiology (Biomechanics) from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She trained as a post-doctoral fellow for 2 years in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Yingling’s research interest is “How to grow a strong skeleton - The effect of exercise and loading on bone structure and strength. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Ratnakumar Pasala
Dr Ratna Kumar Pasala, Principal Scientist currently works at the ICAR-Indian Institute of Oilseeds Research in Hyderabad, India. His group is working on Plant Abiotic Stress biology, Plant bioregulators/ biomolecules and Functional Plant phenotype. Their current projects focus on identifying and characterising traits associated with crop adaptation and tolerance to abiotic stresses and ideotype development for agro-ecological zones.
Martial Ndeffo
Dr. Martial Ndeffo is Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Texas A&M School of Public Health. His research uses transdisciplinary modeling approaches to address public health challenges for a wide range of infectious diseases.
David A Ray
I am a broadly trained evolutionary biologist. I also taught high school Biology, Chemistry and Physics before returning to graduate school and earning my PhD from Texas Tech University in 2002. After that, I held postdoctoral and assistant professor positions at Louisiana State University, West Virginia University and Mississippi State University before returning to TTU as an associate professor. My research interests are in organismal and genome evolution with an emphasis on the impacts of transposable elements on both.
Andrew Mitchell
Dr. Andrew Mitchell is a Senior Research Scientist at the Australian Museum Research Institute. His research interests include systematics of noctuid moths (Lepidoptera), molecular phylogenetics, insect diversity, species delimitation and diagnostics, and DNA barcoding.
Lucy J Troup
Dr. Lucy J. Troup is a chartered psychologist (CPsychol) in the Strategic Hub for Psychology, Social Work, Health Behaviours and Addictions at the University of the West of Scotland. She is also holds an Affiliate Faculty appointment at Colorado State University, Colorado, USA. Her research focus is centered round Emotion Processing using Event Related Potentials to better understand the endogenous and exogenous variables that influence emotional expression recognition. Currently the main emphasis in the Troup lab is to understand how Cannabis effects emotion processing.
Dr. Troup received her Undergraduate degree in Psychology form the University of Plymouth in the UK. Her graduate work, translational M.Sc. in Intelligent Systems and Ph.D in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience were also awarded from the University of Plymouth under the direction of Prof. Mike Denham, Professor Emeritus Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience.
Silvia Comani
I am Full Professor of Applied Physics, affiliated to the Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, at the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti – Pescara, Italy.
My research focuses on biomedical signal processing, mainly on development of methods for removal of artefacts from EEG signals recorded in adults and neonates, and of methods to study brain dynamics and inter-organ functional dynamics in adults and infants to detect the neural correlates of behavior in studies adopting a multimodal and multidisciplinary approach.