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.
Rafael Linden
M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, and currently a Full Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Neurogenesis, and former Director of the Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho at UFRJ. Research work directed at mechanisms of development of the central nervous system, neurodegeneration, and gene therapy. Best known for contributions to the understanding of the control of programmed cell death in the central nervous system, and more recently, for studies of the functional properties of the prion protein, involved in the pathogenesis of both spongiform encephalopathies and Alzheimer’s Disease.
Hironori Kaminaka
Associate Professor of Faculty of Agriculture, Tottori University, Japan; Past Postdoctoral Fellow of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; Past postdoctoral Fellow of National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan; Ph. D. obtained in Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan.
Amit Singh
Dr. Singh received his B.Sc. from the Government Degree College Nahan, H.P. University, India and his M.Sc. and Ph.D from Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India. After a short stint as a Research Associate in the field of Trangenics of silkworm, Bombyx mori, in Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc.), Bangalore, India, Dr. Singh moved to Academic Sinica Taiwan to pursue post doctoral research in the field of eye development using Drosophila melanogaster model system. In 2002, Dr. Singh moved to Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas to further pursue his work on Drosophila eye development and was promoted to an instructor (non-tenure track faculty) position in 2004. Dr. Singh was hired at University of Dayton as a tenure track assistant professor in 2007 and promoted to associate professor in 2013. To date, he has published one book and 52 papers.
Silvia Cimino
Prof. Silvia Cimino, PhD in Clinical and Developmental Psychology, completed a post-doctorate at “Sapienza” and is currently an Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology, within the Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology at the “Sapienza “University of Rome.
She is a Child Psychotherapist of the AIPPI (Italian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Childhood, Adolescence and the Family) and has worked as a clinician and researcher at the “Bambino Gesù” Pediatric Hospital for over 10 years.
She is the author of over 60 national and international publications (including articles, volumes, chapters in books), mainly focused on psychopathology in the first three years of life (eating, sleep, depressive disorders), psychopathological risk in adolescence (with particular reference to the impact of traumatic experiences ). She has also explored the area of parenting and maternal depression.
Rafael J Najmanovich
Associate Professor, Systems & Structural Computational Pharmacology. University of Montreal, Canada. Postdoc EMBL-EBI. PhD Physics & Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. MSc Statistical Biological Physics & BSc. Molecular Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
James Harris
Group Leader in Arthritis and Lupus Research Group, Department of Medicine, Monash University. Interests in cytokine biology, inflammasomes, MIF, autophagy, inflammation, innate immunity, veterinary and comparative immunology.
Deputy Editor, Immunology and Cell Biology.
Review Editor, Frontiers in Immunology.
Editorial Board member, Arthritis Research & Therapy.
Andrew Denovan
Andrew's research primarily focuses on individual differences, health, and performance. To this end, he has an active interest in the development and evaluation of psychological measures, and research methods including psychometrics and statistical modelling. His research also focuses on wellbeing, applied cognitive psychology, and psychopathology.
Young Jin Lee
Professor in Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University. Over 25 years of experience with over 80 publications in various fields of mass spectrometry including fundamentals, SIMS, ion mobility instrumentation, and proteomics. Current research interests include MALDI based mass spectrometry imaging of plant metabolites and forensic applications as well as analytical biomass pyrolysis especially with high-resolution mass spectrometry and dopant assisted atmospheric pressure ionization.
Paolo Brambilla
Dr. Paolo Brambilla is MD specialist in Psychiatry and PhD. He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Milan, Milan, Italy; Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UTHouston, USA; Director, Psychiatric Clinic, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico; Chair, EPA Neuroimaging Section; and CoEditor in chief of Journal of Affective Disorders
He is also scientific coordinator of (1) Research Unit on Brain Imaging and Neuropsychology at the Psychiatric Clinic at the University of Verona, and of (2) of developmental psychopathology studies at the IRCCS Scientific and Clinical Institute “E. Medea”, Polo FGV, Udine.
Currently, Dr. Brambilla is leading longitudinal studies in major psychoses, mood disorders and developmental psychopathology.
He is the recipient of several national and International scientific honours and grants, and is author/co-author of more than 250 original papers published in International peer-reviewed Journals (7000 citations).
According to Web of Science, he is amongst the top 100 most cited researchers in the field of bipolar disorder and is the 32th most cited researcher in the field of ‘Neurosciences & Psychology’ of the ‘Top Italian scientists”, based on via-academy.
His current lifetime h-index is 48 as calculated by Scopus, 53 by Google Scholar, 50 by ResearchGate. He also bears the Italian National habilitations for Full Professor of Psychiatry and Full Professor of Child and Adolescent NeuroPsychiatry.
Joseph M Craine
Craine received his BS from The Ohio State University and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. He has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications and a book with Princeton University Press, The Resource Strategies of Wild Plants. He has worked on a variety of topics from plant traits to soil organic matter dynamics to bison performance to nutrient limitation of plant growth. Since 2014 he has helped lead a private company Jonah Ventures.
Giovanni Ottoboni
My research interests spread across the domains of clinical and general psychology.
I am interested in studying how to implement psychosocial care programs for frail people at best. In particular, I am exploring the ways decision-making processes can improve the services supporting people with dementia and the strategies to make more effective palliative care programs.
Since late 2018, I have been co-coordinating an E+ project, the SiDeCar project, which aims to develop a Higher Education program of studies focused on psychosocial care for people with dementia.
Finally, I am interested in studying the implicit and explicit mental processes mediating reflexive representations and the ones supporting both human-human and human-objects interaction.
Michael A Jenkins
I am a Professor of Forest Ecology in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at Purdue University. Previously, I was a vegetation ecologist with the National Park Service for ten years. My research focuses on the effects of disturbance and invasive species on forests ecosystems. My scale of focus ranges from the population to the landscape scale and I work with data from both long-term plot networks and field experiments.