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.
Gufran Beig
Dr. Gufran Beig is an atmospheric scientist, focussing on Environmental science aspects of atmosphere and air quality. He is working as Project Director at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune under the Indian Union Ministry of Earth Sciences. His broad area of research is Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Pollution. Specific topics of expertise include developing air pollution monitoring and forecasting systems and assessment of its impact on Human Health and food security; as well as long term changes and trends in the troposphere and Stratosphere. He has the distinction of developing and commissioning the first air quality Forecasting system for Indian Mega cities which is recognised as a pilot project of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO-GURME). He is the recipient of several awards, viz. the coveted Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International Award of WMO, etc. He has been a committee member of the scientific steering /advisory committee member of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) project; SPARC of World Climate research; and Global Atmospheric Watch’s GURME-WMO project.
Gary S Collins
Gary has research interests primarily focussed on statistical (and reporting) aspects in developing and validating multivariable prediction models. He has published over 100 papers on clinical trials, observational studies, systematic reviews, quality of life, propensity scores and prediction models.
Gary is a statistical editor ("hanging committee") for the BMJ.
Gary also led the development of the TRIPOD Statement for reporting clinical prediction models - www.tripod-statement.org.
Juan E. Palomares-Rius
My scientific career has been developed in the field of Plant Protection, mainly in plant-parasitic nematodes and how these organisms interact with the plants and other microorganisms in the soil in order to design effective Integrated Management in the agrosystem. Plant-parasitic nematodes could be a major limiting biological constrains for many crops. I have developed five main research lines during my scientific career: i) Study of the interaction plant-nematodes including the plant resistance characterization; ii) Integrative diagnostics and molecular characterization of plant-parasitic nematode species (including description of new species and group phylogenies). This subject has been done with genera as important as Meloidogyne, Pratylenchus, Xiphinema or Longidorus among others; iii) Soil ecological relationships in order to understand the nematode biodiversity; iv) Genetic population structure and molecular diversity of nematodes and plant-viruses vectored by nematodes; v) Genome sequencing and analysis. Nowadays I am working in the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture-CSIC (Spain) in order to unravel the diversity and new control methods against plant-parasitic nematodes in crops.
Edsel B Ing
Edsel Ing MD, FRCSC, MPH, CPH, MIAD is a Professor at the University of Toronto and Surgeon at Michael Garron Hospital.
Clinical & Research interests: Eyelid/Orbital diseases (oculoplastics), Strabismus surgery & Neuro-ophthalmology
MPH & GCSRT: Harvard
CEduHP: Hopkins
MD & Residency: U Toronto
Fellowships: Mayo Clinic, Wills Eye, Allegheny General
PhD Candidate (May 2020): Kingston U
Masters of International Affairs: United Nations ITR & U Catalonia
Section Editor: Can J Ophthalmology, Can J Diagnosis, Medscape Ophthalmology
Ranjit Vijayan
Dr. Ranjit Vijayan obtained his PhD in Life Sciences Interface/Biochemistry from the University of Oxford, UK, and his DipGrad in Management from the London School of Economics & Political Science, University of London, UK. In 2004 Dr Vijayan obtained his MSc in Computer Science from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK, and prior to this his BEng in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Dr. Vijayan's research interests include; molecular dynamics simulations of biological macromolecules, protein structure modeling, structure based drug discovery, genomics & transcriptomics, pharmacogenomics and high-performance computing.
Birthe Fahrenkrog
PhD in Cell Biology from the Biozentrum, University of Basel. Postdoctoral stays at the EMBL Heidelberg and the Biozentrum Basel. Group leader at the Biozentrum Basel (2003-2009), 2009-2020 Professor at the ULB, since August 2020 Senior Research Associate in the group of Prof. Dr. Roderick Lim at the Biozentrum, University of Basel. Research interest: nuclear pore complexes and nucleocytoplasmic transport; the role of nuclear pore proteins beyond nucleocytoplasmic transport. Editorial board member: Microbial Cell; Cells.
Ryouhei Ishii
Dr. Ryouhei Ishii is Professor of Occupational Therapy Course, Osaka Prefecture University Graduate School of Comprehensive Rehabilitation. He completed his medical training at the Osaka University Hospital, he then worked under Professor Masatoshi Takeda as a graduate student on the clinical application of magnetoencephalography (MEG) in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry, the Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University. Dr. Ishii received his PhD degrees in medicine at the Osaka University in 1999.
Roi Gazit
Roi Gazit, PhD., is Principal Investigator of Hematopoietic Stem Cell (HSC) transcriptome laboratory at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He is a member of the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN), and the Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cells at BGU. Roi earned a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in life science and developmental biology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He obtained PhD. in immunology, under supervision of Ofer Mandelboim, studying NK-cell in vivo, including the generation of the first NK specific mouse model and elucidation of novel NK-cell abnormalities in human patients. He conducted postdoctoral studies at the Harvard Medical School, at Derrick J. Rossi laboratory, focusing on the identification and utilization of HSCs’ genes, including reprogramming of committed blood cells into HSCs using defined transcription-factors and generation of a novel HSC-reporter mouse. His laboratory at the Ben-Gurion University is studying HSCs’ transcriptome along normal development, during immune-challenges, and the direct reprogramming of adult blood cells into HSCs.
Michela Bertolotto
Dr Michela Bertolotto obtained her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Genova (Italy). She is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin.
Her main interests are in Spatial Information Systems and Science.
Marcelo U. Ferreira
Prof. Marcelo Ferreira is a medical parasitologist with over 20-year experience in field-oriented and laboratory research. He graduated in Medicine from the University of São Paulo, Brazil (1988), where he was trained in Internal Medicine (1999-2004) and obtained his MSc (1993) and PhD (1997) degrees. Further research training was obtained in Japan (Nagoya University, 1995-97) and the United States (Harvard University, 2005-06). He teaches medical parasitology at the University of São Paulo since 1990 and currently serves as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee on Malaria of the Pan-American Health Organization.
Ying Ying Han
Associate Researcher in Center of System Biomedical Sciences, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
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.