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.
Leonardo Alexandre Peyré-Tartaruga
I grew up in the south Brazil, alternating times between Montevideo (Uruguay) and Porto Alegre (Brazil). Crossing the Pampas several times made me deeply interested in nature and biology. After, I joined my passion for sports and movement to the area of biology. Last year, after 17 years as Assistent and Associate Professor in the UFRGS (Brazil), I moved to Pavia, and currently I am Professor UniPV, Italy. I am interested in minima, maxima and others optima in terrestrial locomotion & Sports Sciences. The pathological gait is a very interesting area to apply basic concepts of human locomotion. I am very proud to study and principally, to change life in the Parkinson projects. Also, and most important, the study on mechanical determinants of locomotion performance and economy is my passion.
Jennifer Rodger
Associate Professor and NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. BScHons in Biochemistry at the University of Bath, UK, PhD in Molecular Neuroscience at the University Pierre et Marie Curie, France. She currently leads a research team investigating mechanisms of brain plasticity. Her most recent work focuses on the use of non-invasive brain stimulation to promote morphological and functional repair of injured and abnormal brain circuits and restore normal behaviour.
Andrea Sundermann
Primary research interests: Effects of stream restoration on aquatic organisms, dispersal of aquatic insects, environmental factors controlling establishment of aquatic organisms in near natural, restored and degraded rivers, threshold values of physico-chemical variables controlling benthic invertebrate occurrences.
Maria A. Deli
Scientific advisor at the Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Szeged, Hungary. Head of the Biological Barriers Research Group. Honorary professor at the University of Szeged.
Nitin Amdare
Dr. Nitin Amdare is a Professional Researcher in the Department of Diabetes at UCSF, CA. His research focuses on mechanisms of immune tolerance and autoimmunity in T1D. He is exploring how defects in thymic selection contribute to the development of autoreactive T cells and autoimmune disease. Drawing on his experience in T-cell biology and mouse models, he aims to identify key factors that regulate immune tolerance and develop strategies to restore immune balance in T1D and related disorders, with a focus on translating these findings into clinical application.
Paul A Ayayee
Dr. Paul Ayayee is an Assistant Professor of Biology within the Department of Biology at the University of Nebraska. His research interests include Insect-gut microbe interactions, Insect physiology and microbial ecology
Francesco Savino
Professor at the school of Pediatrics - Univ. Turin. Studying nutrition, metabolism of infancy in particular hormones such as Leptin, IGF-1, Ghrelin, Adiponectin. Takes interest in gastrointestinal and nutritional disorders. He studies in detail some aspects of gut microbiota of colicky infants such low level of lactobacilli and increased concentration of E.Coli. Performed relevant research on the effect of probiotics on colicky infants. Author of more than 120 scientific reports.
Melanie Kah
Melanie Kah graduated with a MSc in Agronomy and Soil Sciences (University of Nancy, France), before completing her PhD on the fate of ionisable pesticides in soils (University of York, UK). She was then recruited by the UK Food and Environmental Research Agency (FERA), where she assessed the exposure and hazard of a wide range of contaminants, within projects commissioned by government and industry. In 2009, Melanie moved to the University of Vienna (Austria), where she developed projects looking at the interactions between organic contaminants and natural/engineered nanoparticles. Melanie was a Distinguished Visitor at the CSIRO Land and Water in 2018 (Adelaide, Australia), before joining the School of Environment at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) in 2019.
Charles D Johnson
Dr. Johnson earned his BS and PhD from Texas A&M University, with an intermediate MS degree from Clemson University. He completed a postdoc at the University of Louisville, leading to his role as associate director of bioinformatics for the Center for Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the same institution. He played a foundational role in creating the statistics and bioinformatics division at Ambion/Asuragen Inc. Following this, Dr. Johnson founded BioMath Solutions LLC, a bioinformatics-focused startup specializing in software development for genomic technology firms.
Presently, Dr. Johnson serves as the Director of Genomics and Bioinformatics Service at Texas A&M AgriLife.
Donovan H Parks
Donovan Parks holds a PhD in computer science and has developed a number of bioinformatic programs used by the research community including CheckM, STAMP, and GenGIS. He has expertise in bioinformatics relating to microbial ecology, phylogenetics, and metagenome-assembled genomes. He is currently working as a bioinformatic consultant with the Australian Centre for Ecogenomics where he is working on an initiative to resolve long-standing issues within bacterial and archaeal nomenclature and developing new tools for reconstructing and validating genomes obtained directly from environmental samples.
Nathan Caruana
I am I am a cognitive neuroscientist within the Department of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University. I use virtual reality, eye tracking, motion capture and neurophysiology measures to study the cognitive and neural mechanisms of social perception, joint attention, and non-verbal social coordination - in typical development, autism and schizophrenia. In this work, I am specifically focused on developing interactive methods which balance ecological validity, experimental control and objectivity in our measurement of social attention, behaviour and corresponding neural processes.
Relating to this work, I also study how humans perceive and interact with social artificial agents (e.g., virtual avatars and physical robots). I am specifically interested in examining how our beliefs and expectations shape our experiences with artificial agents to inform how they can be optimally designed and positioned to fulfil their intended purpose.
Kyoshiro Sasaki
Dr. Kyoshiro Sasaki is an experimental psychologist and an Associate Professor within the Faculty of Informatics at Kansai University. He obtained his PhD in 2016 where he engaged in research on embodied emotion. He has a wide range of research interests; emotion, embodied cognition, object recognition, spatial and temporal cognition, psychological ownership, and metascience.
Dr. Sasaki is an editorial board member of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, PLOS ONE, the Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, and the Japanese Journal of Research on Emotions. He is also a Recommender of Peer Community In Registered Reports.