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.
Jorge Leite
Prof. Doctor António Jorge da Costa Leite is Associate Professor within the Department of Psychology and Education at the Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal.
He is also Director of the Portucalense Institute for Human Development, and the PhD program in Clinical Psychology and Counselling.
Jorg J.M. Massen
I am a comparative psychologist specializing in social cognition. Currently I work as an Assistant Professor at the Animal Behaviour and Cognition Group of Utrecht University (NL). My research mainly focuses on the proximate mechanisms underlying animal social relations, with special interest in cooperative and prosocial behaviours. For that I use both observational and experimental approaches. Moreover, to put my studies in an evolutionary perspective, I employ a broad comparative approach, focusing on a variety of primate and bird species.
Bruno Duarte Gomes
My primary area of research is in brain decoding using machine learning and deep learning, particularly in the context of epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, and cognitive processes in healthy individuals. My research also includes studying human and non-human primates visual system using psychophysics, visual evoked potentials and cortical extracellular recordings.
Education:
Ph.D., Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Federal University of Para
M.Sc., Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Federal University of Para
B.Sc., Biological Sciences, Federal University of Para
Ana Tereza Ribeiro Vasconcelos
Ana Tereza Vasconcelos is Senior Researcher Scientist at the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing and coordinator of the Bioinformatics Laboratory and the Computational Genomics Unit Darcy Fontoura de Almeida at National Laboratory of Scientific Computation (LNCC). Her team has experience in the area of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Using High Performance Computing and AI working on the following topics: Genomics, Development of software applications in Bioinformatics and computational tools applied assembly, annotation and comparison of genomes, metagenomics, exomes and transcriptomics applied to many different model organisms. Since 2020 he has worked in the generation and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes, mainly in the identification of new lineages.
Julieta Carril
Dr. Julieta Carril is a researcher at the CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council), Argentina. Working at the Laboratory of Histology and Descriptive, Experimental and Comparative Embryology (LHYEDEC), Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, National University of La Plata, Argentina. Her research focuses on the role of developmental reprogramming processes in the morphological evolution of Neornithes birds. Dr. Carril is also a member of the Avian Biomorphodynamic Research Group (ABRG)
Agnes Dettai
Associate professor at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. Curator of the fish barcode collection.
I study the systematics and evolution of Actinopterygians, especially at the inter/intra specific boundary and in species delineation with integrative approaches, but also on the evolution of mitogenomes in fish species from the Southern Ocean. I also work on molecular identification (barcoding, metabarcoding) of marine and freshwater fish and benthic species.
Neil Harrison
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Liverpool Hope University. My research focuses on the study of visual perception and emotional influences on perception. One line of my research aims to further our understanding of how the brain processes emotional stimuli. In particular, I use event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate how expectations and uncertainty influence emotion processing, and how emotion regulation techniques modify neural activity. Another line of research is aesthetics, where I investigate eye movements by viewers in natural settings (e.g. in a gallery), and how these are influenced by personality. I also investigate aesthetic evaluations of nature, including the effects of connectedness to nature and mindfulness on aesthetic experiences.
Ben Corry
I spend my time trying to understand the proteins known as ion channels that are responsible for electrical signalling in cells using simulation and fluorescence. I am fascinated by how organisms can survive despite the chaos taking place at the molecular level.
I received my PhD from the Australian National University in 2003. After 9 years in 'The Wild West' (Perth, WA) where I won the 2008 West Australian Young Scientist of the Year 2008, I have found my way back to work at the ANU.
Alberto Megías-Robles
Dr. Alberto Megías Robles is an Associate Professor at the Department of Basic Psychology of the University of Málaga. He received his PhD from the Experimental Psychology and Neurosciences program at the University of Granada. Dr. Megías-Robles' research career has mainly been developed in the Department of Basic Psychology at University of Malaga and in the Mind, Brain, and Behavioural Research Centre at University of Granada. Moreover, he has carried out research stays in other institutions such as the University College London, University of Helsinki, and University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Poland).
He has focused his research on the study of the interaction of emotion and cognition in decision-making processes from a psychology and cognitive neuroscience perspective. His research interests include emotion (particularly emotional abilities), risk and aggressive behaviour and traffic psychology.
Shun-Fa Yang
Prof. Shun-Fa Yang is a Director of Clinical Cancer Research at Chung Shan Medical University Hospital and Professor at the Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan.
Dr. Yang received a Ph.D. degree in molecular biology, his research interests include pharmacology, oral cancer metastasis, cancer biology, genetic polymorphism and environment risk factors in oral cancer.
Essam M Abdelfattah
I have a bachelor’s degree in veterinary medicine as well as PhD and master’s degree in animal Behavior and Management. In addition to, two postdoctoral scholar training in the area of Animal Behavior and Welfare at UC Davis. I am currently pursuing board certification from the American College of Animal Welfare (ACAW). I completed my PhD in USDA-ARS Livestock Behavior Research Unit at Purdue University in 2014, where I conducted experimental research to investigate the effect of group housing on the behavior, health, and welfare of dairy and veal calves. My research specialty focus on applied animal behavior, welfare, and stress physiology. My research utilized behavioral and physiological measures to investigate the effects of management practices and housing design, environmental conditions, and nutrition on the health, production, and welfare of animals. To master additional knowledge in epidemiology and biostatistics and advance animal welfare through sound study design and statistical analyses, I completed my second postdoctoral position at the Dairy Epidemiology Laboratory at VMTRC in Tulare, CA.
Bang-Gee Hsu
Dr. Bang-Gee Hsu obtained his MD from the Chinese Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan (1989 - 1996) and his PhD from the Institute of Medical Sciences, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan (2003-2006).
Dr. Hsu is currently Professor at the School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan (2015-present), Director of the Department of Internal Medicine, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Hualien, Taiwan (2018-present), and Director of the Division of Nephrology Department of Internal Medicine, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Hualien, Taiwan (2014-present).
His research interests include Nephrology, Critical Care Medicine and Internal Medicine.