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.
Jingchun Li
Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Colorado Boulder. Curator at the Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Boulder. Packard Fellow, National Geographic Explorer.
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.
Songning Zhang
Songning Zhang (PhD & FACSM) is a professor of biomechanics and the director of the Biomechanics/Sports Medicine Laboratory at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is a fellow of American College of Sports Medicine and a member of American Society of Biomechanics, International Society of Biomechanics, and China Sport Science Society. He is a visiting professor at the Shanghai University of Sports and at the Nanjing Sports Institute, China. His publications include work appearing in biomechanics, sports science, medical journals, and book chapters. He is currently an associate editor and editorial board member for Journal of Sport and Health Science, and an associate editor for Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, and an editorial board member of PeerJ. He has reviewed manuscripts for many academic peer-reviewed journals, including the Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise; Journal of Biomechanics, Gait and Posture, Clinical Biomechanics, Arthritis Care & Research, etc.
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.
Leny Jose
Dr. Leny Jose is a Scientist and Assistant professor at Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, India. Prior to this he was an Assistant Research Professor in Dermatology at Indiana University School of Medicine, USA. He obtained his PhD in 2014 from the University of Kerala and did postdoctoral research at Indiana University, USA. His research interests are focused on the pathogenesis of the human papillomavirus and also in bacterial pathogenesis.
Marek W. Radomski
Vice-Dean Research and Professor of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology College of Medicine University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. A highly-cited pharmacologist, recipient of Scientist of Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Trinity College Dublin Fellow and Complutense University Madrid Honorary Doctorate awards.
Paula I. Moreira
Paula I. Moreira is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Principal Investigator at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra. Moreira published more than 100 scientific peer-reviewed articles and she is on the editorial board of over 10 journals. Paula Moreira won the Stimulus to Research prize, in 2003, supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and, the L’Oreal for Women in Science, in 2008, supported by L'Oreal Portugal/UNESCO/ FCT.
Gustavo R Pedrino
Dr. Gustavo Pedrino is currently, an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiological Sciences at the Institute of Biological Sciences of the Federal University of Goiás (ICB/UFG), where he coordinates the Center for Research in Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Physiology.
His research focuses on the influence of central inflammatory processes on neuronal and sympathetic hyperactivity in cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and heart failure; neural pathways and mechanisms involved in the cardiovascular improvement observed with physical training; polymorphisms of ACE and ACE II enzymes and susceptibility to the development of cardiovascular diseases; synthesis of prototypes for drugs that act on the cardiovascular system; metabolic programming during pregnancy, lactation, and puberty; and physiopharmacology of natural and synthetic products.
Dr. Pedrino graduated in Biological Sciences (Medical Modality) from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). He obtained the titles of Master and Doctor in Science from the Graduate Program in Pharmacology at UNIFESP. During the doctorate, he spent one year as a Research Fellow at the Department of Physiology of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and completed postdoctoral studies at UNIFESP.
He served as the Coordinator of the Multicenter Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences (2012-2013) and the Undergraduate Course in Biomedicine at ICB/UFG (2014-2018). Acted as Secretary (2017-2018) of the Deliberative Council and Treasurer (2019-2020) of the Brazilian Society of Physiology (SBFis).
Currently, he is the Director of ICB/UFG (2018-2022/2022-2026), President of the Deliberative Council of SBFis, and Treasurer of the Federation of Experimental Biology Societies (FeSBE 2022-2023/2024-2025). Recognized as a Productivity Research Fellow 1C by the Committee on Biophysics, Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neurosciences of CNPq (2020-2024).
Marialaura Di Tella
Dr. Marialaura Di Tella is a Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Turin.
Her primary research interests include Emotion Recognition, Psychological Assessment and Emotional Communication.
Mark O. Gessner
Mark O. Gessner is an aquatic ecosystem ecologist with a particular interest in the functioning and biodiversity of lakes, streams and wetlands and how global environmental change affects these ecosystems. Currently, he holds a professorship in Applied Aquatic Science at the Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin) and serves as department head at Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), a research institute in Germany that is devoted to providing the fundamental knowledge needed to meet the challenges faced by inland waters and human societies in a rapidly changing world. Previous legs on his career path include the University of Kiel in Germany; Eawag/ETH Zurich in Switzerland; a research lab of the CNRS in France, where he completed his doctoral studies; Trent University in Ontario, Canada, as exchange student; and Stanford University in California, USA, and the Australian Rivers Institute (ARI) at Griffith University as a sabbatical visitor.
Yezaz A Ghouri
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Department of Internal Medicine- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, USA. Faculty member of American Gastroenterology Association and American College of Gastroenterology. Faculty member and registered provider at Crohn's and Colitis Foundation. Leading faculty member of Crohn's and Colitis foundation, Mid-Missouri Chapter of Columbia, Missouri. Honored with Arnold P. Gold Foundation award for excellence in teaching. Active clinical faculty with academic education and clinical research related activities.
Marco Iacoboni
I am a neurologist and systems neuroscientist originally from Rome. I am interested in perception-action coupling. My interest in perception-action coupling led me to the study, among other things, of mirror neurons. Mirror neurons led me to study human imitation, empathy, and more generally what is called social cognition. As a neurologist, however, I also have a strong interest in the neurobiological mechanisms of neuropsychiatric conditions and how to intervene on those mechanisms.