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.
Beatriz Royo
I graduated in Chemistry at University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain) and received my PhD degree in chemistry from the University of Sussex (Brighton, UK) in 1993 working with Prof. M. F. Lappert. After PhD, I moved to University of Alcalá as Assistant Professor (1993-94), and later as a Researcher Professor. In 1997, I joined the group of C. Romão in ITQB NOVA (Lisbon, Portugal). Since 2004, I am the Head of the Organometallic Catalysis group at ITQB NOVA (http://www.itqb.unl.pt/research/chemistry/organometallic-catalysis). I have been involved for years in organometallic chemistry research, working with main group, early and late transition metals. The activities of my research group focus on the design and synthesis of bio-relevant metal-based compounds with specific properties for their use in catalysis. Currently, I am the Head of the Chemistry Division at ITQB NOVA.
Svetlana B. Tsogoeva
Svetlana B. Tsogoeva is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, since February 2007. She received her Diploma in Chemistry with Distinction in 1995 from St. Petersburg State University, where she completed her doctoral thesis in 1998 on the “Synthesis of Modified Analogues of Steroid Estrogens” supported by Procter & Gamble. In 1998, she moved to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany, for a postdoctoral project under the sponsorship of the DFG, where she was dealing with the synthesis of chiral amidinium ions and their application as organocatalysts for the preparation of (+)-estrone derivatives using Diels-Alder reactions.
In July 2000 she joined the Degussa AG Fine Chemicals Division in Hanau-Wolfgang, Germany as a research scientist, where she has been working on the synthesis and the application of new oligopeptide catalysts for the enantioselective Julia-Colonna asymmetric epoxidation of olefins. In January 2002 she was appointed a First Junior Professor in Germany at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen, where she established her own research group supported by BMBF, DFG, FCI and Degussa AG. Her research is currently focused on asymmetric organocatalysis, one-pot & domino processes, deracemization of chiral bioactive compounds, synthesis of artemisinin-derived hybrids for medicinal chemistry, as well as chemistry in live cells.
Aya Mousa
Dr Aya Mousa is a NHMRC biomedical research fellow and the Head of Diabetes, Metabolic and Reproductive Health research at the Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation (MCHRI), Monash University.
Dr Mousa leads a team at MCHRI focusing on diabetes, metabolic and reproductive disorders, which includes work in obesity, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome, and in pregnancy including gestational diabetes and the cross-talk between metabolic and reproductive disorders.
Tanu Rana
Dr. Tanu Rana has a Ph.D. in Microbiology from AIIMS, New Delhi and a Master’s degree in biotechnology. Her research pursuits have spanned multiple facets of life sciences, from research on host-pathogen interaction to directing and collaborative research through a microscopy core facility.
Over the course of her career, Dr. Rana has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and presented her findings at national and international conferences, contributing meaningful insights to the fields of infectious diseases, and novel diagnostic approaches.
Beyond lab research, Dr. Rana is committed to the development of the next generation of healthcare professionals and scientists. She has taught and continues to teach medical, dental, master’s and graduate students, offering lectures, active learning opportunities, hands-on laboratory instruction, and mentorship that bridges theoretical knowledge and practical skills.
Eduardo J Fernandez
Dr. Eduardo J. Fernandez is a Senior Lecturer of Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare in the School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences at the University of Adelaide (Australia). He received his Ph.D. in Psychology (minors in Neuroscience and Animal Behavior) from Indiana University and his M.S. in Behavior Analysis from the University of North Texas.
Most of his past and current work involves behavioral research applied to the welfare and training of zoo, aquarium, and companion animals. He runs the Operant Welfare Lab (OWL), which is dedicated to the use of learning principles to improve the lives of animals across many settings, including exotic animals in zoos and aquariums and companion animals in homes and shelters. OWL is also part of the larger Animal Behaviour, Welfare, and Anthrozoology Lab (ABWAL; abwal.com).
D Samuel Schwarzkopf
Originally trained as a neurophysiologist with Frank Sengpiel (Cardiff), Sam has done cognitive neuroscience research on the human visual system since 2007. From 2008 until 2018 he worked at UCL (first as postdoc with Geraint Rees, followed by five years as independent research fellow). In 2017, he moved to the University of Auckland, New Zealand, continuing visual neuroscience research in the School of Optometry & Vision Science.
He is a Recommender (editor) at the PCI:RR and is an editor at PeerJ for Registered Reports going through this route.
Benoit Pujol
Senior scientist, interested by open science (SORTEE member), registered reports (PCI RR founder) and the ability of plants (snapdragons, white campions, arabidopsis) and animals (clownfish, coral, roe deer, aphids) to adapt! Using quantitative genetics and developping it in wild populations to identify mechanisms that meddle with the response to selection on an ecological time scale.
David L Cheung
Dr. David Cheung is a Lecturer in Biophysical Chemistry in the School of Chemistry, University of Galway. Prior to this he was Lecturer in Physical Chemistry in the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde and a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Department of Chemistry and Centre for Scientific Computing, University of Warwick.
Dr. Cheung began his academic career at the University of Durham where he worked in the group of Prof. Mark Wilson. Following this he performed postdoctoral research at the University of Bielefeld (in the group of Prof. Dr. Friederike Schmid) and University of Warwick (in the groups of Prof. Michael Allen and Alessandro Troisi) before beginning his independent career.
Jyoti Mittal
Dr. Jyoti Mittal is presently listed as 2018 Highly Cited Researcher (HCR) by Clarivate Analytics in the Crossfield section. Out of 10 Indian HCR of 2018, she is the only woman scientist receiving this distinction. She is presently working as Assistant Professor at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal (India). She has obtained M.Sc. and M.Phil. degrees in Chemistry from the renowned Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (India) and obtained Ph.D. degree from RGTU, Bhopal. She has published several research papers in the journals of high impact in the area of water treatment and authored many books.
Mehmet Yaman
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Yaman received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Inonu, Malatya-Turkey. Since 2002, he has been a Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Firat. Since 2005, he is an Editor-in-Chief of, the "International Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry” journal- Global Research Publications, New Delhi-India. He supervised and assisted more than thirty students 11 Ph.D.; 22 M.Sc.
Mehmet Yaman has a track record of 120 publications (corresponding author in most of them) in peer-reviewed scientific journals (including Curr. Med. Chem. and J. Med. Chem.) and more than 3,000 citations. He is an invited speaker for international lectures and has given more than 130 talks for national and international conferences. Dr. Yaman is on the Editorial Boards of more than 10 journals and serves as a referee for more than 12 peer reviewed journals in the fields of chemistry, medicine and environment. Prof. Yaman’s research focuses on the preconcentration and determination of toxic trace elements in biological, environmental and food matrices as well as determination of trace organic compounds such as histidine, flavonoids, anthocyanins, PAHs and acrylamide in plants and grilled foodstuffs by using HPLC-MS.
Professor Yaman has managed two national and two international conferences.
Professor Yaman has an International Book Chapter, Air Pollution-Monitoring, Modelling, Health and Control-978-953-51-0381-3, Hard cover, 254 pages
Stefanos Bonovas
Clinical epidemiologist, biostatistician and research methodologist with special interests in study design and methods, clinical research, and evidence synthesis (by means of systematic reviews, classic and network meta-analyses) to inform health care decisions.
Associate Professor at Humanitas University, Milan, Italy.
Alvise Perosa
Research interests include: Green organic syntheses using environmentally friendly solvents, reagents, catalysts, and feedstocks.
Member of the Advisory Board of the journal "Green Chemistry" (Royal Society of Chemistry, UK) and the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal "ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering" (American Chemical Society, USA).