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.
Ravindra Kumar
Dr. Ravindra Kumar is a Senor Scientist (Plant Pathology) at Crop Protection Division, ICAR-Indian Wheat and Barley Research Institute, Karnal-132 001 (Haryana). He obtained his M.Sc. (Ag.) and Ph.D. (Ag.) from the Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He was selected as ARS Scientist in ICAR, New Delhi in ARS-2009 batch. His areas of research interest include Host-Pathogen Interaction, Fungal Pathology, Biological Control of Phytopathogens, Mycology, Seed Pathology, and Plant Disease Management. He has published more than 32 research papers and reviews in reputed national and international journals, and has more than 50 technical and popular articles to his credit. He has also written two text books on plant pathology.
Dr Ravindra Kumar has excellent scientific writing and editing skills. Recently he edited book entitled as "Seed-Borne Diseases of Agricultural Crops: Detection, Diagnosis & Management" published by Springer, Singapore. He has edited several technical bulletins and annual reports. He has been associated with several professional/research societies of national and international repute.
Patrícia Padilha
Prof. Patrícia Padilha holds a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the Josué de Castro Nutrition Institute (INJC) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where she holds the position of Associate Professor at the INJC of UFRJ. Prof. Padilha is also leader of the Nutrition and Pediatrics Research Center (NUTPED), which is linked to the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics (maternal and child sector) and develops its care activities at the Instituto de Puericultura e Pediatria Martagão Gesteira (IPPMG/UFRJ), including participation in an outpatient clinic for nutritional support and diabetes. As a researcher, Prof. Padilha is accredited to the Postgraduate Program in Nutrition at INJC/UFRJ and in the Master's Program in Maternal and Child Health at IPPMG/UFRJ, and since 2020 she has been a Research Productivity fellow at CNPq. She is currently coordinator of the Integrated Multi-professional Residency Program in Child and Adolescent Health at IPPMG / UFRJ. She has experience in the field of Nutrition, with an emphasis on maternal and child nutrition, working mainly on the following topics: nutritional therapy in pediatrics, clinical nutrition in pediatrics, prenatal nutritional assistance and nutrition applied to chronic diseases in pediatrics.
Stephanie S Godfrey
Lecturer in the Department of Zoology at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Research interests include animal behaviour (and specifically animal social networks), host-parasite ecology, and conservation biology.
Joëlle Wiels
Joëlle Wiels received her PhD in Genetics from Université Paris 6-Denis Diderot and then spent two years as a Post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Biochemical Oncology (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) headed by Professor Hakomori. She then moved back to France where she studied the role of glycosphingolipids in both normal and tumoral B lymphocytes. Since 1991, her main research interests include analysis of apoptotic signaling pathways and of resistance to cell death developped by B cell lymphomas. She is currently affiliated at the METSY CNRS Unit located at the Gustave Roussy Institut in Villejuif (France)
Simone Grassini
Dr. Simone Grassini is Associate Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway
His primary research interests include interdisciplinary approaches challenging the big questions on the evolution of the human brain and the interaction between humans and the environment.
Yasser Riazalhosseini
After undertaking post-doctoral studies on Cancer Genomics at the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ; German Cancer Research Centre), Yasser Riazalhosseini joined the Department of Human Genetics at McGill as an Assistant Professor, and was appointed Group Head of the Cancer Genomics program at the McGill University Genome Centre. His principal activity has been to initiate and lead a multidisciplinary, applied research program on cancer genomics, with the goals of obtaining better preventions and treatments. His research program uses systems biology approaches that combine genomics datasets involving sequences from hundreds of cancers coupled with detailed clinical data, and functional studies.
Jeroen Roelofs
Jeroen Roelofs received his Ph.D. (Cum Laude) from the University of Groningen, where he studied cGMP signalling and chemotaxis of Dictyostelium Discoideum. During his postdoctoral work in the Lab of Dan Finley at Harvard Medical School he studied the ubiquitin-proteasome system and discovered a role of several molecular chaperones in the assembly of the proteasome in S.Cerevisiae and human tissue culture cells. Since 2009 he runs his own lab at Kansas State University, where his lab studies proteasome assembly and regulation at the molecular and cellular level in yeast and mammalian tissue culture systems. Recent interests include quality control of assembly and the degradation of proteasomes through autophagy.
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.
Franco Nigro
Full Professor of Plant Pathology at the Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences of the University of Bari - Aldo Moro. He holds the courses "Biotechnology for the Health and Safety of Vegetable Production integrated with the Certification of Agri-food Production" (Master's Degree in Biotechnology for Food Quality and Safety), and the module of Phytopathological Bacteriology (Bachelor Degree in Agricultural Science and Technology). The research activity focus on some relevant diseases of olive trees (quick decline syndrome, verticillium wilt, anthracnose, cercosporiosis), citrus fruits (Phytophthora root rot, and “mal secco” diseases), stone fruit (white root rot). Recently, he also reported the occurrence of Candidatus Phytoplasma phoenicium, a quarantine pathogen of the almond tree, in Apulia.
Chih-Chung Shiao
Dr. Chih-Chung Shiao is an associate professor and a nephrologist.
He currently is the deputy superintendent of medical research and education department, chairman of the academic research committee, and attending physician of the Nephrology Division in Camillian Saint Mary’s Hospital Luodong, Taiwan.
Dr. Chih-Chung Shiao has published a total of more than 70 papers in SCI journals. His research interests cover acute kidney injury, autonomic cardiac function, critical care nephrology, heart failure, survival, chronic kidney disease, and uremia.
Yumna Albertus
Dr. Yumna Albertus is a Senior Lecturer, Division of Physiological Sciences, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town.
Her research focus is on neuromuscular physiology. Her research has ranged from rehabilitation using robotic over-ground walking in spinal cord injury, exercise-based rehabilitation in cardiovascular disease, elite para-athletes with Cerebral Palsy, injury risk in running using different shoe conditions. She has a keen interest in understanding the effects of rehabilitation interventions on neuroplasticity, functional outcomes and quality of life.
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.