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 Buyske
Professor of Statistics at Rutgers University, with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Genetics. Particular interest in how statistics is applied, especially in Biology, Medicine, and particularly Human Genetics.
Zemin Ning
Zemin Ning is a Senior Scientific Manager and heads the group of "High Performance Algorithm" at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK. Trained in Engineering/Physics, he has been active in genome informatics, specializing in sequence alignment and genome assembly. After completing a PhD degree at Aston University and postdoc training at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, he joined in the Sanger Institute in 1999 to pursue bioinformatics research. Over the past years, he and his colleagues in the group have developed a number of bioinformatics tools, which are widely appreciated by the genomics community. The group has also produced over 30 de novo assemblies from large animal and plant genomes, including Gorilla, Zebrafish, Tasmanian Devil, Panda and Bamboo.
Saverio Brogna
Lecturer and principal investigator at the School of Biosciences of the University of Birmingham, UK. Interested in eukaryotic gene expression and particularly in understanding the links between RNA processing and translation.
At present his group research focuses on understanding nonsense mediated mRNA decay (NMD) and its links with pre-mRNA splicing.
Ricardo Castro Alves
Dr. Ricardo Castro Alves specialises in periodontology and is the Head of the Department of Periodontology at the Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz. His is also Head of the Clinical Research Unit at Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar Egas Moniz (CiiEM), Co-Coordinator of the Post-Graduate Program in Clinical Periodontology, Professor of the Post-Graduate Program in Implant Dentistry and an invited Professor at several Post-Graduation Courses.
Kamil Steczkiewicz
Kamil Steczkiewicz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences. He is interested in widely understood protein structure and function prediction. Dr. Steczkiewicz is head of a project on the classification of all known peptidases.
Despina Koletsi
Despina Koletsi is currently Senior Teaching & Research Staff (Oberassistentin) at the University of Zurich. She qualified from the School of Dentistry, University of Athens and received her orthodontic training from the same University, where she completed a Master of Science in Orthodontics. She earned a Doctorate from the University of Bonn and a second Master’s Degree in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. She also completed the postgraduate programme in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education of the University of London and obtained the University of London Worldwide Recognised Tutor Status. She has been in private orthodontic practice in Athens, Greece, since 2012.
Dr Koletsi has published more than 80 scientific and methodological papers in international peer- reviewed journals and has given more than 40 lectures and presentations. Her research interests and areas of expertise focus on orthodontics, epidemiology, research methodology and meta- epidemiology. She serves as Academic Editor/ member of the Editorial Board in 6 peer- reviewed journals and as an Independent Reviewer for 35 international journals in Orthodontics, Paediatric Dentistry, Dentistry, Medicine, Epidemiology and Evidence- based research, including the prestigious British Medical Journal.
Annemariè Avenant-Oldewage
Prof. Annemariè Avenant-Oldewage is Professor of Zoology at the University of Johannesburg. Her research group uses fish parasites as sentinels for environmental degradation and describes the morphology (including genetic characterisation), ecology and pathology of these fish parasites. They are currently focusing on Diplozoidae, Gyrodactylidae, Nematoda, Copepoda and Branchiura.
Gian Pietro Emerenziani
Bachelor in Sport Sciences, summa cum laude (2004) and Specializations Degree in Preventive and Adapted Physical Activity at University of Rome "Foro Italico", summa cum laude (2006). On 2010 he finished the Post Doctoral course in Biomedical and Methodological Aspects of Preventive and Adapted Physical Activities at University of Rome "Foro Italico". During his career, he deepened his knowledge and scientific and clinical skills in the fields of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences focusing on the effects of different Training Program on health in Obese and Older subjects. Since 2009 he has taught as expert in the subject at University of Rome "Foro Italico", then in 2016 as a holder of single courses and integrated courses at the University of Catanzaro "Magna Graecia".The number of publications on indexed peer-reviewed journals with Impact Factor (41 since 2008) and the number of citations received from them (483) shows his high albeit young scientific activity.In 2017 he obtained the MIUR grant (FFABR). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the “Motricidade” , “PeerJ" and "Austin Sports Medicine" journals. Moreover, he is the Reviewer of several international journals, such as Eating and Weight Disorders and International Journal of Sports Medicine. Member of the Italian Society of Sport Sciences (SISMES) and of Italian Society of Andrology and Sexual Medicine (SIAMS).
Farzin Shabani
I am an Associate Investigator in palaeo-ecological vegetation modeling for the new ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH). I am also a Research Fellow in environmental modeling and climate change in the Department of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University.
My profile at Macquarie University: https://directory.science.mq.edu.au/users/1600
My profile at Flinders University: https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/farzin.shabani
ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH): https://epicaustralia.org.au/
M Fabiana Kubke
Senior Lecturer at the School of Medical Sciences (Department of Anatomy with Radiology) and member of the Centre for Brain Research at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Interested in Neuroethology, Brain Evolution, Evo-Devo and auditory systems. Former Grass Fellow and Editorial board member of Brain Behavior and Evolution. Currently serving as an Academic Editor in PLOS ONE, and Chair of the Advisory Panel of Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand.
Christopher R Noto
I am a vertebrate paleontologist working on the taphonomy, paleoecology, and functional morphology of Mesozoic vertebrates including dinosaurs, crocodilians, mammals, and birds. I am the principal investigator at the Arlington Archosaur Site with a position of Research Affiliate in the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas.
Christof M Jäger
I am a computational chemist and data scientist and group leader at AstraZeneca. My research activities all share the motivation to bring the power of computational chemistry to new chemical problems in pharmaceutical research and beyond, to fundamentally understand properties and functions of organic molecules, to reveal hidden chemical questions and to promote solutions for chemical challenges and focus on the development and application of efficient and transferable computational techniques and workflows.
Past and present research involved multi-disciplinary research in the areas of reactivity prediction, catalysis, biotechnology, bio-organic, colloid, and radical chemistry, molecular self-assembly and supramolecular chemistry, ion effects, and molecular electronics in organic electronic devices.
Following my undergraduate studies of Molecular Science I received my PhD in Computational Chemistry from the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany in 2010. I then worked as a Postdoc for the Cluster of Excellence Engineering Advanced Materials (EAM) until 2014, when I joined the Sustainable Process Technology (SPT) Research Group in in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Nottingham, first as an EU and UoN funded fellow, then as Assistant Professor in Biotechnology and Computational Chemistry. In September 2022 I joined AstraZeneca in Gothenburg / Sweden to work in predictive computational chemistry and data science within the Pharmaceutical Science department.