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.
Nagarajan Raju
Nagarajan Raju completed his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), India. Earlier, he worked as a project assistant at a bioinformatics center, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, where he mainly focused on the computational analysis of protein structures and interactions. After his Ph.D., he joined Dr. Georgiev‘s laboratory as a post-doctoral research fellow in April 2016 and focused on computational immunology research. In March 2022, he joined the Bosinger lab as an Associate Bioinformatics Scientist where he will be focusing on the analysis of bulk and scRNAseq data to understand the immune responses due to infection and/or vaccination.
Michel Laurin
Michel Laurin is a Research Scientist at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). His specialty is the evolution of vertebrates from the Devonian to the Triassic. His current interests include dating the tree of life using paleontological data using new methods, bone microanatomy and paleohistology, biological nomenclature, as well as other problems such as the invasion of land by vertebrates and the origin of extant amphibians. Dr Laurin's work has introduced many innovations in paleontology and paleobiology, notably in the form of various computer programs, mostly developed by his collaborators, some of which can be used to perform paleontological dating of the tree of life or to analyse bone microanatomical data. He has supervised 7 doctoral students so far and has led the team “Squelette des vertébrés” (which included eight tenured scientists, a postdoc, a technician, and six doctoral students) from 2007 to 2008, he has also been the leader of the team "Metazoan Phylogeny and Diversification" since 2014. He is a member of several scientific societies, and has served the ISPN (International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature) as both Secretary and President. He served one term as President of the Association Paléontologique Française (APF). He is a frequent reviewer for over 50 journals and currently serves on seven editorial boards, including for the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. In January 2011, he became Chief Editor of the Comptes Rendus Palevol.
Hilmar Lapp
Aside from my role as Director of Informatics at Duke University's Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB), I am a PI for the NSF-funded project on creating a model and standard for phyloreferencing (http://phyloref.org), and I am a co-PI of the (also NSF-funded) Phenoscape project (http://phenoscape.org) on ontological annotation of evolutionary phenotype observations. I am a co-founder and current Board of Directors member of Data Carpentry (http://datacarpentry.org), and I was part of the founding team for Dryad (http://datadryad.org), a digital repository for data supporting scientific publications. I have also served in the leadership of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) since its inception in 2001.
Before joining Duke's GCB, I was at the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), where I initiated many of NESCent's cyberinfrastructure initiatives aimed at grass-roots building of community capacity, including the NESCent's hackathon program and Google Summer of Code™ (GSoC) participation.
David A Baltrus
Associate Professor interested in evolutionary microbiology and genomics
Alexander Schliep
Alexander Schliep received a PhD degree in computer science from the Center for Applied Computer Science (ZAIK/ZPR) at the Universität zu Köln, Germany (2001), working in collaboration with the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group (T-10) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. From 2002-2009 he was the group leader of the Bioinformatics Algorithms Group in the Department for Computational Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. From 2009–2016 he held a joint position as associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and the BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology. From August 2016–February 2025 he held a faculty position (part-time since Oct 2022) at the University of Gothenburg in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, which is a joint department of Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg. Since October 2022 he is the chair for medical bioinformatics at the Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg. His group is located at the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg.
He serves as an associate editor for BMC Bioinformatics and as an editor of PeerJ.
Erik K Hartmann
Dr. Erik Hartmann is a Senior Physican within the Department of Anaesthesiology, Univesity Medical Center Mainz, Germany. His research focus is on large animal models, ARDS and CPR.
Scott Veirs
Oceanographer and bioacoustician facilitating the recovery of endangered regional icons of the Pacific Northwest (U.S.), particularly southern resident killer whales and Pacific salmon. I helped design and was the first major in the Earth Systems program at Stanford University, then earned a M.S. and PhD in Oceanography at the University of Washington. In 2003 I founded Beam Reach and taught ~50 undergraduates and recent graduates to ask and answer their own marine field science questions during 10-week field courses from 2005-2012. During the same period I helped create the Salish Sea Hydrophone Network -- orcasound.net -- which I continue to administer.
Vittoria Carnevale Pellino
Dr. Vittoria Carnevale Pellino obtained a Master's degree in Sports Science and Adapted Physical Activity at the University of Pavia, Italy, and Ph.D. in technologies for rehabilitation and sports medicine at the University of Tor Vergata Rome, Italy. She is a member of the Laboratory of Adapted Motor Activity (LAMA) at the University of Pavia.
Dr. Carnevale Pellino expertise includes adapted exercise training for metabolic diseases such as diabetes and obesity, especially in the youth population, and physical fitness evaluation in children and adolescents.
Andree Hartanto
Andree Hartanto is an Associate Professor of Psychology from Singapore Management University. His research focuses on examining factors that contribute to interindividual variations and intraindividual changes in cognitive, emotional, and physical well-being. Andree’s work has been published in more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles such as Cognition, Child Development, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Emotion, and Social Science & Medicine.
Simon Man Kit Cheung
Dr. Cheung is a Senior Research Associate of the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. He is a microbial ecologist specialized in using molecular and bioinformatics techniques to examine the dynamics, determinants and roles of microbial communities in natural and host-associated environments.
Benjamin H Letcher
Ben Letcher is a quantitative stream ecologist working at the interface of field studies and mathematical models of population and evolutionary dynamics. My group is combining information from long-term intensive studies of stream fish with extensive studies to develop broad scale models of population response to environmental change.
Timothy O. Randhir
Dr. Timothy O. Randhir is a Full Professor at the Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, USA. Dr. Randhir received a Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1995 and did post-doctoral work at Purdue University before joining the University of Massachusetts as a faculty member. He has a Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Sciences from Annamalai University and a Master's degree in Agricultural Economics from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. Dr. Randhir is a consultant to the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, the American Association of Advancement of Sciences, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Agriculture. In addition, he serves as Editor of three international journals in earth systems, climate change, watershed science, ecological economics, and computational environmental sciences. His publications include a book on Watershed Management, several book chapters, more than 110 refereed articles in top international journals, and several professional conference presentations. His research extends worldwide, including Honduras, Columbia, Peru, Uruguay, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, eSwatini, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Mongolia, Kirghizstan, Uganda, Turkey, Iran, Russia, China, India, and Indonesia. He is the President of the Southern New England Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society.