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.
Eleonora Fiorenzato
Dr. Eleonora Fiorenzato is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova, Italy. Her research aims at investigating the interplay between cognitive as well as behavioral disorders in Parkinson’s disease, with a particular interest to the brain imaging changes associated with these deficits.
Dr. Fiorenzato's main scientific interest is to identify biomarkers of cognitive decline in neurodegenerative disorders (such as, Parkinson’s disease) by combining clinical, cognitive and neuroimaging data (i.e., structural MRI, resting-state fMRI, PET) to identify different trajectories of disease progression.
Christof D Meile
Professor In the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia, with expertise in reactive transport modeling, early diagenesis, land-ocean interactions and redox dynamics; PhD Utrecht University, The Netherlands; MS Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; BS Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Switzerland
Amir A. Zadpoor
Amir Zadpoor studied Biomed Eng for his MSc and obtained his PhD (cum laude) from Delft Univ. Tech. He joined the Dept. Biomech. Eng. to work in the area of tissue biomechanics and implants in 2010 and started a research lab focusing on biomaterials, orthopedics, and biomechanics of tissues and implants. Amir is on the review and editorial board of several journals and has published many peer-reviewed article. He recently received the prestigious ERC and Veni personal grants.
Mei-Chuan Ko
Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. My research interests involve behavioral neuropharmacology of pain and addiction, including 1) biological basis and pharmacotherapy for drug abuse and dependence and 2) neuropharmacological basis of therapeutics of analgesics and antipruritics.
Sabine Leonhard-Marek
Veterinarian TiHo Hannover, research assistant Veterinary Physiology Free University Berlin (Dr. med.vet.), Associate professor of physiology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, M.A. LIS Humboldt University Berlin, Director of the university library, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover
Heike Folsch
Research Associate Professor at the Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. Research fields include the investigation of membrane trafficking in polarized epithelial cells.
Keith R Laws
Keith Laws is Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology in the School of Life and Medical Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire. He completed a PhD at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching and various academic organisations including the Experimental Psychology Society.
Giorgia Batelli
Dr. Giorgia Batelli is a Plant Genetics Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources. She received her Degree in Plant Biotechnology (2003) and PhD in Plant Biology and Chemistry (2007) at the University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy. She studies physiological and cellular mechanisms employed by plants (Arabidopsis, Solanaceae) to respond to salt and drought stress with a focus on ABA-mediated signalling, using a variety of molecular and genetic tools.
Krishna Dev Oruganty
I can best describe myself as a simulation biologist. I am interested in simulating life processes at multiple scales. From the atomic scale to understand protein function to cellular or systems scale to understand physiological processes. My main tool is the computer which I use to analyze, understand and predict biology. Secondary tools are in vitro biochemistry and biophysics experiments that I use to validate my predictions.
Nicola Carslaw
My work involves numerical modelling of air pollution chemistry, mainly in the indoor environment, and to a lesser extent, outdoors. My indoor air chemistry work involves investigating the chemical processes that cause high concentrations of air pollutants indoors, particularly those pollutants that are likely to be harmful to health. Topics of interest are the impacts of human activities on indoor air quality, such as cooking, cleaning and DIY activities such as painting. We also investigate the impact of emissions from common indoor materials such as carpet and wooden furnishings on indoor air quality.
Johanna Löchner
Prof. Johanna Loechner is a Junior Professor for Mobile Assessment and Telepsychotherapy at the Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital Tübingen
Prof. Loechner's research projects focus on prevention, treatment and rehabilitation using digital technologies in children, adolescents and parents with mental disorders.
Yunfeng Xu
Dr. Yunfeng Xu is currently working in Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Dr. Xu focuses on fine mapping and the cloning of important wheat genes for yield traits, as well as developing robust molecular markers for wheat improvement.