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.
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.
Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer
Research interests include the use of image processing and machine learning techniques for medical image analysis and retrieval, imaging for radiation therapy, survival analysis for cancer, information retrieval, and statistical modeling.
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.
Easter S Suviseshamuthu
Dr. Suviseshamuthu is an Associate Research Scientist at the Human Performance and Engineering Research Lab, Kessler Foundation, West Orange, NJ, U.S.A., since Dec. 2015.
He received the B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli, India (1988), the M.E. degree in Applied Electronics from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India (2001), and the Ph.D. in Multispectral Satellite Image Analysis from the Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Information et des Systèmes, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France (2007). He was Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Bioimaging and Biostructure Institute, Italian National Research Council, Naples, Italy, (2008 to 2010), the Department of Mathematical Engineering, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, (2010 to 2014), and the GIPSA-Lab, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France (2014 to 2015).
His research focus encompasses statistical signal processing, blind source separation, medical imaging, optimization on matrix manifolds, machine learning, biomedical signal analysis, and bio-inspired computing. He serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Access.
Wei Shen
- Professor of Reproduction and Development Biology at Qingdao Agricultural University
- Director of 'Animal Procreation & Germplasm Innovation' Shandong Key Laboratories in Universities of Shandong
His research includes Molecular and Cellular Approach to the Study of Development Biology of Mammalian Germ Cells. Based on this research and fellowship training he has received several awards and honors. He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals, and he has authored many research articles and books.
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.
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.
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.
Susanne E la Fleur
Associate Professor at the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor at Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7. Our group is working on unravelling the mechanistic link between diet composition and the development of obesity and diabetes as a first step towards better understanding the pathogenesis of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, focussing on the role of the brain.