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.
Amaresh Chandra Panda
Dr. Panda obtained his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from National Centre for Cell Science, University of Pune, India. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow for five years at the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Baltimore, USA. He also worked as an Assistant Scientist at the University of Miami, Miami, USA, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado, Denver, USA. His studies have uncovered new mechanistic details of the post-transcriptional regulation by RNA-binding proteins, microRNAs, and circular RNAs in physiological processes, including insulin production, myogenesis, and cellular senescence. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Intermediate Fellowship by Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance. Currently, he is working as a Scientist-D at ILS Bhubaneswar under the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. His research group at ILS is working to understand the role of poorly characterized circRNAs in muscle regeneration and insulin biosynthesis.
Adam Husein
Adam Husein is Professor of Prosthodontics at the College of Dental Medicine, University of Sharjah. He is a Fellow with the International College of Dentist and member of the International College of Prosthodontist. Prof. Husein's specialized interest is in maxillofacial prosthodontics, laser, biomaterials, implantology and stem cells.
Julia A. Clarke
Julia Clarke is a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist at The University of Texas at Austin. She is also a John A. Wilson Centennial Fellow in Vertebrate Paleontology and a member of the Graduate Faculty in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at UT.
She has a Ph.D. from the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University and a B.A. (comparative literature and geobiology) from Brown University. She currently serves as co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Anatomy and is an associate editor of Paleobiology. She has published numerous technical papers, including 9 in Nature or Science, and has been recognized for excellence in research, undergraduate teaching, and outreach.
Alfonso Gil-Martínez
Dr. Alfonso Gil-Martínez is Academic Vice President, Full Professor and Researcher at La Salle Higher Center for University Studies (CSEU), Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM); Physiotherapist Consultant and Researcher in the La Paz University Hospital (HULP) #IdiPAZ; and Director del Experto #fitemyc y #CranioSPainRS.
Tomoki Nakamura
I am a lecturer of Orthopaedic Surgery at Mie University Graduate School of Medicine. I graduated from Mie University Faculty of Medicine in 2002 and received my PhD in 2009. I am a member of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association and a specialist in Orthopaedic Oncology. I typically treat patients presenting with bone sarcoma, soft tissue sarcoma, and metastatic bone tumors. I am also the academic editor of several journals, including PLOS One, BMC Cancer, Oncology Reports, Oncology Letters.
Ioannis Ganopoulos
Dr. Ganopoulos received his BSc degree in Agriculture from the University of Thessaly (2000-2005) and his MS and PhD in Plant Breeding from AUTH (2005-2007/2008–2013). He has been awarded a Heracleitus PhD scholarship by the European Social Fund and the Hellenic National Fund. His recent scientific interests focus on epigenetics, DNA methylation, whole genome sequencing and trascriptomic analysis for molecular breeding purposes. He has participated in four research projects, one of them competitive European project. He has published 93 reviewed articles in SCI journals and h-index=27 (citations 2051 in Scholar google). He was a co-worker in national/international projects and he is Editor in Biochemical Genetics and PeerJ journals.
Luisa Azevedo
Researcher at the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS), University of Porto, and collaborator of the Population Genetics and Evolution Group of i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde. Scientific topics include molecular basis of phenotype-genotype relationships, mechanisms underlying epistatic interactions under the compensatory mutation model, and the dynamics involved in amino acid substitution at the protein structural level.
Stephanie E Pierce
Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
Stephanie E. Pierce is a trained paleontologist, anatomist, functional morphologist and evolutionary biomechanist. She completed a BSc degree in paleontology at the University of Alberta, Canada, which included an honors thesis on the anatomy and evolution of hadrosaurian dinosaurs. Directly following this, Stephanie pursued a MSc degree by research in Systematics and Evolution at the University of Alberta studying the anatomy and evolutionary relationships of extinct marine lizards. Her love of vertebrate evolution brought her to the University of Bristol, UK where she embarked on a PhD degree which focused on assessing the interplay between skull shape variation and biomechanical performance in extant and extinct crocodiles. Since finishing her studies, Stephanie has focused her main efforts on examining and reconstructing the 3D anatomy and locomotion potential of early tetrapods (Devonian and Carboniferous) to test hypotheses of limbed movement across the water-land transition.
Jeff H. Chang
Jeff Chang is an Associate Professor of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University. His research group focuses on the interactions between bacteria symbionts and plants.
Christopher J Mungall
I am a Computer Research Scientist in the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology division at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. My work focuses on computational methods for representing and interpreting complex biological data, in particular through the development and application of knowledge representation structures such as ontologies.
Bernt Lindtjorn
Pror Bernt Lindtjorn is a Professor in International Health. By training, he is a medical doctor with long and extensive experience in hospital work, research, disease control, management, research, research management, and teaching and work in developing countries.
His professional profile includes surgery in developing countries, population studies, and control of malaria, tuberculosis, HIV and AIDS, and malnutrition.
Nicholas J Loman
Nick works as an Independent Research Fellow in the Institute for Microbiology and Infection at the University of Birmingham, sponsored by an MRC Fellowship in Biomedical Informatics. His research explores the use of cutting-edge genomics and metagenomics approaches to the diagnosis, treatment and surveillance of infectious disease. Nick has so far used high-throughput sequencing to investigate outbreaks of important pathogens such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa,Acinetobacter baumannii and Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli. His current work focuses on the application of novel sequencing technologies such as the Oxford Nanopore for genome diagnosis and epidemiology of important pathogens, including most recently real-time surveillance of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. A more general aim is to develop bioinformatics tools to aid the interpretation of genome and metagenome-scale data in routine clinical practice in collaboration.