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.
Blake W Johnson
Dr Blake W Johnson is Associate Professor of Cognitive Science and Director of Research in Hearing and Cognition at Macquarie University. Dr Johnson's research uses functional neuroimaging techniques, particularly magnetoencephalography (MEG) to investigate the neural bases of cognition and its disorders. His current work examines auditory and cognitive brain function in children using a novel paediatric MEG instrument customised to fit the smaller heads of preschool-aged children.
Alessandro Musetti
Dr. Alessandro Musetti is Assistant Professor of Dynamic Psychology at the University of Parma, Italy.
His main research topics include the psychodynamics of addictive behaviors, the relationship between attachment and psychopathology. More specifically, the relational dynamics with peers in adolescence, the attachment styles in people with clinical dependence and the problematic use of the internet.
Renato Polimanti
Dr. Renato Polimanti is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. His scientific interests include Human Genetics, Biological Psychiatry, Computational Biology and Human Evolution.
Valter Prpic
Dr. Prpic is a cognitive psychologist. Before joining University of Bologna, he was a Senior lecturer at De Montfort University, visiting researcher at the University of Malta and a research associate at Sheffield Hallam University. Previously, he completed a postdoc and PhD at the University of Trieste.
Dr. Prpic’s research focuses on different topics related to perception and cognition. One of his main research areas focuses on the Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Coded (SNARC) and other related spatial association effects. Dr. Prpic’s research investigates spatial association effects both for numerical and other non-numerical stimuli, such as music parameters (e.g., pitch height, tempo, musical notes), emotional stimuli (e.g., facial expressions), luminance and visual illusions.
A second line of research focuses on perception and action, in particular the research of Dr. Prpic aims at investigating how musicians, athletes and common people use visual and auditory information for improving their motor performance. His other research interests include visual and auditory perception, psychophysics, attention, music cognition and sport psychology.
Richard J Maude
Professor Maude is Head of Epidemiology at Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand and Associate Professor in Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford, Honorary Consultant Physician at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and a Visiting Scientist at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, USA. He has worked at Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit since 2007.
Qi Liu
Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University
Ana I. Duarte
Post-Doc Fellow at Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (since 2007), Coimbra, Portugal. Visiting researcher at Neuronal Survival Unit, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund Medical School, Lund, Sweden (Sept 2008 - May 2009). PhD and MSc in Biology (Cell Biology) by University of Coimbra, Portugal (in 2007 and 2002, respectively). Degree in Biology by University of Coimbra, Portugal (in 1998).
Hugo Corbí
Dr. Hugo Corbi is a marine geology researcher (micropaleontology and sedimentology) currently working at the University of Alicante (Spain). Highly motivated in developing scientific and outreach studies related to geological and paleontological heritage, sedimentology, reef environments, Messinian Salinity Crisis, paleoenvironment interpretation, biostratigraphy and foraminiferal taxonomy.
Olorunseun O Ogunwobi
Dr. Ogunwobi obtained a medical degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, a master's degree in biomedicine from the University of Hull, United Kingdom, a master's degree in clinical and translational science from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and a PhD in molecular biology from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. He was the Founding Director of the Hunter College Center for Cancer Health Disparities Research. He is now the Barnett Rosenberg Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Chairperson in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Michigan State University. In addition, he will serve as Co-Director of the forthcoming Center for Cancer Health Equity Research (CCHER) at Michigan State University. He is a translational cancer biologist whose work focuses on molecular mechanisms of progression of solid organ cancers with racial disparities, and on approaches to leverage non-coding RNA biology for potential clinical applications in cancer. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, New York State, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the National Science Foundation, among others. Dr. Ogunwobi was a Founding Contact Principal Investigator of the Synergistic Partnership for Enhancing Equity in Cancer Health (SPEECH) funded by U54 grants CA221704 and CA221705 from the National Cancer Institute. An author of 74 peer-reviewed journal articles and 3 book chapters, Dr. Ogunwobi has been issued 5 US patents for biotechnology inventions with potential clinical applications in cancer. He is the recipient of the 2022 Hunter College Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship or Creative Activity, and selected as a Jefferson Science Fellow by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and as a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine Specialties of Nigeria. He is Co-Founder of UTR Therapeutics, Inc (winner of the 2023 XSeed Award from Deerfield), and NucleoBio, Inc.
Michael C Hout
Michael C. Hout is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, where he directs the Vision Sciences and Memory Laboratory and co-directs the Addison Care Virtual and Augmented Reality Lab. He is also the Associate Director of the NMSU Discovery Scholars Program, and an Associate Editor at the journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. He recently finished a two-year position as Program Director at the National Science Foundation, co-directing the Perception, Action, and Cognition, and Cognitive Neuroscience programs. He has won several awards for research and teaching, including the Rising Star award from the Association for Psychological Science, as well as the Early Career Award for Exceptional Achievements in Creative Scholarly Activity and the Donald C. Roush Award for Teaching Excellence from NMSU.
Benjamin J. Whalley
Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Reading. British Neuroscience Association Local Group Representative. British Pharmacological Society (Member). UK Epilepsy Research Network (Interventions & Therapies CWG). Pharmacist (GPhC registered).
Investigating unmet clinical need in epilepsy with a specific focus on cannabinoid pharmacology using preclinical animal models and electrophysiological techniques supported by convention molecular and biochemical approaches.
Paula Bona
I am a researcher and teacher in reptile anatomy and macroevolution, particularly crocodiles. I work as a professor at the National University of La Plata (UNLP Buenos Aires, Argentina) and as a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina). My interests are crocodyliforms, their evolutionary and biogeographical history. My research is based on systematics and paleobiology. My team and I develop lines of research in osteohistology, neuroanatomy, ontogeny and functional anatomy, in different institutions in our country. For this, we study the anatomy and osteohistology of fossil and living crocodiles, including embryos