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.

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Pasquale Avino

Prof. Pasquale Avino received his Master Degree in Chemistry in 1992 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1997.

He was appointed as Post-Doc (1997-1998) at the Department of Chemistry of the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in the Rowland (Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1995) and Blake group. From 1999 until January 2018, he was appointed as Researcher at the ISPESL/INAIL Research Center, and from February 2018 to January 2021, was appointed as Three-years Term Researcher contract (RTDB).

In February 2021, Prof. Avino was appointed Associate Professor in Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry within the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, at the University of Molise, Campobasso.

His current research follows studies devoted to the development of innovative analytical methodologies for development and application of analytical and sampling methods for the qualitative and quantitative determination of chemical compounds (e.g., contaminants, pollutants, nutrients) in food, agricultural, biological and anthropogenic matrices.

In 1988, he was the recipient of the “Group Achievement NASA Award”, and the “Next Generation Award” during the 22nd International Symposium on Chromatography. In 2003 he was the recipient of the “Environmental Sapio” Award for his research in the environmental field. In 2022 he received the Medal for Ecology from the Moldavian Chemical Society.

Haikun Zhao

I am a full Professor in the College of Atmospheric Science at Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST), China. I received my Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from NUIST in 2012. I have been working on tropical cyclones and climate change, seasonal and intra-seasonal tropical cyclone forecasts since 2007. I have published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Nature Communications, Journal of Climate, and Geophysical Research Letters.

Dieter LD Deforce

Dieter Deforce PharmD, PhD, head of the Lab for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Gent, Belgium. He is chair of the Belgian Medicines Committee, he is member of the Scientific Advise Working Party of the EMA. He is a partner in NXT-GNT, a research consortium providing the research community next generation DNA-sequencing. He is also a partner in the Bioinformatics Institute Ghent From Nucleotides to Networks (BIG N2N) of the University Ghent. He is member of the board of directors of the VIB.
Research focuses around applying proteomics and genomics platforms (including Next Generation Sequencing) in the field of stem cell development, prenatal genetic diagnosis, (auto-)immunity and forensics.

Martin Hartmann

Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich with strong interests in microbial ecology, molecular biology, bioinformatics and statistics.

Emmanuel Serrano

Dr. Emmanuel Serrano is Associate Professor and wildlife ecologist at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. He leads th

He leads the Wildlife Ecology & Health (WE&H) group and is a member of the SEFaS at the UAB.

Hhis research integrates different disciplines to address wildlife disease and management issues.

Barbara Ensoli

Director of the National AIDS Center, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. Co-Vice President and Member of the Presidential Committee of the AIDS National Commission, Ministry of Health. Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO).

Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

A biogeo­chem­ist study­ing the in­ter­ac­tions between mi­cro­bial life and the car­bon cycle on a range of spa­tial, tem­poral and mo­lecu­lar scales. Inter­ested in which and how mi­crobes shape ele­ment cycles and what the re­lated en­vir­on­mental con­sequences are.

Current research foci encompass the mar­ine deep bio­sphere, meth­ane biogeo­chem­istry, life in ex­treme en­vir­on­ments, de­vel­op­ment of new ana­lyt­ical pro­to­cols for the ana­lysis of organic trace constituents in geo­lo­gical sample matrices, proka­ryotic mem­brane lipid tax­onomy, and the study of pa­leoen­vir­on­ments.

Helen E Parkinson

Dr Helen Parkinson head of Molecular Archival Resources at EMBL-EBI and leads the Samples, Phenotypes and Ontologies team, delivering databases, data integration tools and ontologies for biomedicine. She is also Interim Team Leader for the Variation Archive team. Trained as a geneticist, Helen's research focused on Drosophila biology, behaviour, molecular biology and medical genetics. Helen's passion is semantic data integration and providing users with useful data. Her team participates extensively in external collaborations ranging from data analysis and generation projects to infrastructural integration projects such as the ELIXIR initiatives BioMedBridges, CORBEL and EXELERATE. In collaboration with partners in the KOMP2 project and the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium, Helen's SPOT team manages, analyses, and distributes complex phenotypic data from knockout mouse lines and promotes mouse data integration internationally.They also develop open-source software tools for managing data, developing and integrating ontologies and data, and integrating semantic web technologies.

Prior to joining EMBL-EBI in 2000, Helen was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Leicester, where she worked on the genetic basis of Primary Pulmonary Hypertension, Hyphophatasia and synteny at human chromosomes 7 and 12. Her PhD thesis examined the temperature compensation of circadian rhythms in Drosophila with Professor Bambos Kyriacou.

Kathryn A Gold

Associate Professor, Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego

David S. Milstone

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Felipe G Naveca

I am a microbiologist with experience in classical and molecular techniques applied to the study of human pathogens, mainly threatening RNA and DNA viruses. My research focuses on developing diagnostic tools, molecular epidemiology, and evolution, mostly on emergent and reemergent viruses. My team approaches include genomics and phylogenetic studies to characterize known and unknown viruses; field studies on arboviral emergence in a rural area in the Brazilian Amazon; immunogenetics studies related to susceptibility or resistance against microbial infections; studies on biomarkers of acute viral illness; in vitro & in vivo virus-host interactions and evolution; and SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses molecular epidemiology. Senior investigator of Fiocruz Amazonas and Deputy Director of Research and Innovation. Member of the Brazilian Society for virology since 1997. Member of the Brazilian network of specialists in Zika and correlated diseases.