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.
Masahiro Ono
Dr Masahiro Ono was originally trained as a dermatologist, and later specialised in immunology. He obtained his PhD in 2006 by a study on regulatory T cells (Treg), and later identified the interaction of the Treg-specific transcription factor Foxp3 and the transcription factor Runx1. In 2009, he obtained a HFSP Fellowship, and joined University College London (UCL), when he established a new genomic analysis tool using a multidimensional method, Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA). In 2012, he was awarded a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship, and established his lab in UCL. In 2015, he moved in the Department of Life Sciences, Imperial, and was appointed as Senior Lecturer in 2018.
Recently, the Ono group has established a novel tool for analysing temporal dynamics of cellular differentiation and activation in vivo, Timer-of-Cell-Kinetics-and-Activity (Tocky とき), and his group is using this tool to investigate mechanisms underlying T cell differentiation and T cell-mediated immune response.
Peter R Girguis
Peter Girguis joined the Harvard faculty as an assistant professor in 2005, becoming full professor in 2012. His research efforts are aimed at better understanding how microbes mediate matter and energy flow through Earth’s biosphere. He develops novel methods and technologies for studying microbially-mediated energy flow and harvesting, including laboratory and in situ incubators that better mimic environmental conditions, and field-deployable instruments such as underwater mass spectrometers, carbon isotope analyzers and high-performance hydrogen sensors that allow him to study microbial processes in the lab and in situ.
Girguis has authored or co-authored over 85 publications, including papers in Nature, Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Proceedings of the Royal Society. Girguis is a board member of the Ocean Exploration Trust (OET), is on Schmidt Ocean Institute vehicle advisory boards, and served as chair of the National Science Foundations’ Deep Submergence Science Committee (DeSSC).
Girguis’ honors include 5 consecutive years of commendations for distinguished teaching, the 2007 and 2011 Lindbergh Foundation Award for Science & Sustainability, a 2010 Honorable mention in the ENI International Energy and the Environment Award, a feature in the 2008 Discover Magazine’s “10 Everyday Technologies That Can Change the World” (bio-powered lights), and a 2008 Honorable Mention in the Buckminster Fuller Innovations in Science Award.
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).
Ralph A Tripp
Dr. Tripp joined the University of Georgia in 2004 from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. He is a Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar working in vaccine and therapeutic studies in the Department of Infectious Diseases at UGA.
Research interests include understanding the mechanisms of immunity and disease pathogenesis associated with respiratory virus infection, and using this information to develop therapeutic protocols and vaccines that will confer long-term protective immunity.
Isabel Sousa Pinto
Professor at the University of Porto and researcher at Ciimar: Centre for Marine and Environmental Research. She has a PhD in seaweed ecology, ecophysiology and cultivation from the University of California Santa Barbara. Her main research is in biodiversity and ecology of benthic communities and the biology, cultivation and use of seaweeds and she is the Head of the Laboratory of Coastal Biodiversity. She is also member of the Steering/Executive Committees of several international and European programs as: EPBRS - European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy, MABEFF+ – European Institute for the study of Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning, MARS - European Network of Marine Research Institutes and Stations, EMBOS - Development and implementation of a pan-European Marine Biodiversity Observatory System, and co-chair of the Working group on Marine Ecosystem Change from GEO BON – Biodiversity Observation Network and in the Portuguese delegation to the UN Convention for Biological Diversity
Juro Gregan
- associate professor, Dept. of Genetics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
- group leader, MFPL, Dept. of Chromosome Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- postdoctoral researcher, IMP (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology), Vienna, Austria (K. Nasmyth lab)
- postdoctoral researcher, Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, UK (S. Kearsey lab)
- PhD study, Dept.of Microbiology and Genetics, Univ. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (R. Schweyen lab)
Cristina Becchio
Cristina is Associate Professor at the Psychology Department, University of Turin, and Senior Researcher at the Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova. After studying philosophy at the University of Turin, she joined a PhD Program in Cognitive Science in 2001. She became researcher at the University of Turin in 2006. She is interested in the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying motor cognition.
Rita Grandori
Professor of Biochemistry at the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. Adjunct Professor of Protein Science at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria.
Peter S. Solomon
Professor, Wheat Biosecurity. Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University. Associate Editor of Functional Plant Biology
Ziad Kronfol
Ziad Kronfol, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychiatry Clerkship Director at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar. He previously was Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Psychoneuroimmunology Program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Kronfol is past Vice-President of the Asian Federation of Psychiatric Associations, Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and member of the section on education in the World Psychiatric Association.
Marcelo G Lorenzo
Graduated in Biological Science - University of Buenos Aires (1991), Ph.D. in Science - University of Buenos Aires (1997). Developed postdoctoral experience in CPqRR-FIOCRUZ (1999-2002) and Swedish Agricultural University (2009-2011). Associate researcher (between 2002-2006) and senior researcher of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (since then). Main experience in Insect Physiology (emphasis on Behavioral Physiology), acting on the following topics: behavior, pheromones, kairomones, electrophysiology, functional genomics of sensory processes, triatomines, culicids, development of baits and traps for vector control. More than 60 papers published on diverse topics related to insect neuroethology. His research group studies the sensory ecology of disease vectors using a multidisciplinary approach. Research by the group takes advantage of techniques ranging from neurobiology to analytical chemistry, molecular biology and behavior. Editorial board member of PLOS ONE, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Physiological Entomology and Neotropical Entomology. Current Vice-President of Latin American Association of Chemical Ecology and recently elected councilor of the International Society of Chemical Ecology.
Mallikarjuna Nadagouda
Dr. Mallikarjuna N. Nadagouda received his Ph.D. from India in 2003. While earning his Ph.D., Dr. Nadagouda worked with professor Gopalakrishanan of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, India for two years. After obtaining his Ph.D., he worked for General Electric (GE) in Bangalore, India for two years before moving on to work with the late Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid (2000 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Nadagouda went on to become an Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education (ORISE) postdoctoral fellow at the United State Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL), and subsequently achieved his current position as a Physical Scientist at NRMRL in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is also adjunct professor at Wright State University, Dayton, OH.
He has worked in the areas of nanomaterials and nanotechnology, analytical chemistry, green chemistry, polymer blends, solid coatings, solid state chemistry and drug delivery. He has received several Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA) from the EPA, including the National Risk Management Research Laboratory Goal 1 Award. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of several international journals, has published nearly 250 papers in reviewed journals with a citation index ~15700 (H index 60), and holds several patents.