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.
Robert G Steen
Director of the Biopolymers NextGen Sequencing Facility, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School.
Stephen J Newhouse
Data Science Lead (yak shaver) and Senior Bioinformatician at The Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics: SLAM NHS NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health, Kings College London.
Sunetra Gupta
Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. Recipient of the Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal and the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award. Member of European Advisory Board of Princeton University Press.
Laura Cancedda
Dr. Cancedda graduated in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Genoa in 1999, with a thesis on the role of neurotrophic factors on neurotransmitter release. She received her Ph.D. in neurophysiology from Scuola Normale Superiore in 2003, under the supervision of Dr. Lamberto Maffei. In Pisa, she investigated the molecular and environmental basis of experience-dependent plasticity in the rat brain. In 2003, she moved to University of California at Berkeley in Dr. Poo’s laboratory where she focused on molecular mechanisms of GABAergic-transmission modulation. Starting in 2006, she has also started a collaboration on a project aimed at studying early determinants of neuronal polarization.
Currently, she holds a team-leader position at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa and a scientist position at the Telethon Dulbecco Institute. Laura is also a scholar of the FENS KAVLI network of excellence. Her research focuses on the role of extracellular factors such as GABA in neurogenesis, migration and morphological maturation of cortical neurons under physiological as well as pathological conditions.
Miriam Braunstein
Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology at Colorado State University. Our laboratory studies the basic biology and pathogenic mechanisms of mycobacterial pathogens, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacteria
Albert A Presto
I am an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of CMU's Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies (CAPS). My research focuses on pollutant emissions from energy extraction and consumption and the subsequent atmospheric transformations that these emissions undergo. Energy production and consumption is a major source of pollutants and greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Gas and oil wells emit methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Cars and trucks operating on gasoline and diesel fuels emit carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter. Particulate matter from mobile sources is largely the result of incomplete or inefficient combustion in the form of organic aerosol and carbon soot. In addition to the direct emissions of pollutants, dilute exhaust undergoes oxidation in the atmosphere. This oxidation chemistry can lead to the production of secondary pollutants, such as ozone and secondary particulate matter. We investigate the contributions of primary and secondary pollution with ambient measurements, laboratory experiments, source testing of pollution sources, and atmospheric models. This multi-pronged and multi-disciplinary approach allows for a holistic view of pollutant emissions and transformations in the atmosphere, and their impacts on human health.
Jason D Surratt
Dr. Jason Surratt is a Professor with tenure at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering located within the Gillings School of Global Public Health, as well as in the Department of Chemistry. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Caltech, and his B.A. and B.S. degrees in chemistry and meteorology, respectively, from North Carolina State University. His current research utilizes advanced mass spectrometry techniques with synthetic organic chemistry to understand as deeply as possible the atmospheric chemistry that occurs in both the gas and condensed phases, with special focus on the chemistry leading to the formation of secondary organic aerosol (SOA). His research has helped to derive model parameterizations that more explicitly predict atmospheric levels of isoprene-derived SOA, and has revealed the importance of acid-catalyzed multiphase chemistry in SOA formation.
He is the 2016 recipient of the James J. Morgan Environmental Science & Technology Early Career Award Lectureship, the 2013 recipient of the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) Sheldon K. Friedlander Award, and the 2012 recipient of the Health Effects Institute (HEI) Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award. Dr. Surratt has authored and co-authored more than 110 peer-reviewed articles in aerosol science, atmospheric chemistry, and air pollution journals.
Diana Dudziak
Professor for 'Dendritic Cell Biology' at the Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Erlangen at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen/Nürnberg, Germany. Member at German Society of Immunolgy, Medical Immunology Campus Erlangen (steering committee), Optical Imaging Center Erlangen (steering committee), Academia Net, New York Academy of Sciences, International Society for Dendritic Cell and Vaccine Design, European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society
Lawrence P. Kane
Professor of Immunology and Vice Chair for Education, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Currently serving as a standing member of NIH/CSR study section CMI-A. Past Section Editor of the Journal of Immunology. Currently an associate editor at F1000 Research, Frontiers in Immunology and PeerJ, as well as an Faculty member of F1000 Prime Immunology.
Christos Chinopoulos
Associate Professor at the Department of Medical Biochemistry, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary. Research Associate at the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA during 2004. Academic Fellow at the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA during 2002-2003. Primary field of interest: Bioenergetics, Mitochondriology.
Maria Elena Flacco
Prof. Maria Elena Flacco is Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Medical Statistics and Public Health at the University of Ferrara, Italy. Her areas of research include epidemiology, public and occupational health, and biostatistics and methods.
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).