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.
Nicholas Syn
Nicholas Syn, MBBS, is a researcher at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. His research interests are in general surgery, transplant surgery, and translational oncology. He has published over 109 PubMed-indexed articles in these areas, and has a H-index of 19 (updated as of 16th Apr, 2021).
Bernhard Wernly
Dr Bernhard Wernly is a Physician-scientist at the Paracelsus Medical University, Salzberg, Austria. He is trained in cardiology and intensive care medicine, MD, PhD and currently doing a Master in Public Health.
Keisuke Yusa
Chief, Laboratory for Virus Safety, Division of Biological Chemistry & Biologicals, National Institute of Health Sciences
Florian Lesage
Florian Lesage is senior research director at INSERM (French National Health Institute). He is a molecular biologist with extensive experience in ion channel cloning, expression and characterization, in particular in the neurosensory systems. He has authored 15 international patents and >120 publications that have received more than 15,000 citations (http://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=4RXbfuMAAAAJ&hl=fr&oi=ao).
Florian Lesage is the director of the Laboratoire d'Excellence "Ion Channel Science and Therapeutics" (LabEx ICST, www.labex-icst.fr/en).
Stefano D'Errico
Dr. Stefano D'Errico is an Organic Chemistry Researcher within the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Naples. His research interests include synthesis of modified nucleosides and nucleotides with potential antitumor/antiviral activity and chemical synthesis and structural studies of oligonucleotides (ON) and analogues.
Georg Umgiesser
Georg Umgiesser has two masters degrees in oceanography and physics and a PhD in biomedical sciences. He is working at the CNR as a senior scientist.
Principal fields of investigation are hydrodynamic modeling, circulation and sediment transport. He has developed a series of finite element models for shallow water bodies (SHYFEM) for the study of hydrodynamic processes, water quality and transport phenomena. He has participated in various EU projects dealing with the North Sea and the Mediterranean, turbulence studies and application of 3D models. He was a visiting professor at the Kyushu University, Japan. He is also lead researcher at the Open Access Center of Klaipeda University. He is the Italian coordinator of the ESFRI project Danubius-RI dealing with study on river-sea systems.
Scott Emrich
I received a BS in Biology and Computer Science from Loyola College in Maryland and a PhD in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from Iowa State University (ISU). Upon graduation, I received a ISU Research Excellence award and the university-wide Zaffrano Prize for Graduate Research. Starting after graduation in 2007 I spent the first ten years of my career at the University of Notre Dame, and now am an Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville). My research interests include genome-focused bioinformatics, parallel and distributed computing, and the intersection of biological applications and second and third-gen sequencing. Nearly all of my research has been funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH).
Claudio Della Volpe
C. Della Volpe, physical chemist; born Naples 1950; University of Naples, researcher in Physical chemistry of aqueous solutions; university of Trento, associated professor in applied Physical Chemistry; Editorial Board of Surface Innovations and Journal of Wettability Science and Technology ; Editor of the blog The Chemistry and the Society; Scientific Board of ASPO-Italy
Lubna Rasheed
Dr. Lubna Rasheed studied Chemistry and earned a Ph.D degree in 2011 jointly from Rennes1 University, France and Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. She has two years of Post. Doctorate experience at the CSM Laboratory at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) South Korea. Presently she is serving as Associate Professor at Chemistry Department, Rawalpindi Women University, Pakistan. She served as Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry, University of Education, Lahore (2017-September 2023). Presently working as Associate Professor at Department of Chemistry, Rawalpindi Women University, Pakistan .
She has been invited speaker at many national and international Conferences. She is working as Editorial board member of prestigious international journals. Her publications has been included in Nature Index for the year 2019 and ranked among the World’s top publications for the year 2019. Her research interests include the development of Fluorescent Probes as Sensors for Biomolecular and Ionic Detection, Medicinal Chemistry, Nano Composites for HER, OER, Semi conduction, Environmental, Water Treatment and Energy-Related Applications.
Surya Paudel
Dr. Surya Paudel is an Assistant Professor (Poultry) at the Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, City University of Hong Kong. He is a veterinarian and obtained his PhD degree in poultry medicine from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria in 2015. Dr. Paudel is a resident at the European College of Poultry Veterinary Science within the European Board of Veterinary Specialization. He is also serving as a member of methodology task force for drafting “Veterinary guidelines on antimicrobial use in poultry colibacillosis” in the European Network for Optimization of Veterinary Antimicrobial Treatment (ENOVAT) programme. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Clinic for Poultry and Fish Medicine, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (2015-2022). In addition, his work experience includes conservation and management of critically endangered wildlife species, in particular, in restoring the natural population of dramatically declining vultures in South East Asia (2008-2010).
Judy St. Leger
Past President, International Association of Aquatic Animal Medicine
Current and past Scientific review board member for Oiled Wildlife Care Network, Morris Animal Foundation, Prescott grant program, SeaWorld-Busch Gardens Conservation Fund, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Trustee and Lecturer, CL Davis and SW Thompson Foundation, President, Rising Tide Conservation
Antonella Loperfido
Dr. Loperfido graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Siena and subsequently specialized in Otolaryngology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart - Gemelli Hospital in Rome. She works at the largest tertiary public hospital in Rome: San Camillo Forlanini Hospital. She has received specific training in rhinology, with special focus on innovative medical treatment with biological drugs for chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps at La Sapienza University in Rome.
Dr. Loperfido is a member of the Italian Society of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (SIOeChCF), she is the author of several publications on national and international journals, she is particular active as reviewer and she is currently serving as editorial board member in multiple scientific journals.