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.
Chris J Garland
Professor of Vascular Pharmacology, University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Medicine, Magdalen College, Oxford. Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. Previously, Head and Professor of Pharmacology, University of Bath and Professor of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, University of Bristol. Visiting Professorships; University of Nagoya, Japan, Monash University, Australia and the National Academy of Sciences, Taiwan.
Lucie Khemtemourian
Lucie Khemtemourian received an engineer diploma in chemistry from the Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux (ECPM) in Strasbourg, France. She also received a Master degree of chemistry from the University of Saarbrücken, Germany. She performed her Ph.D. in Biophysics working on the synthesis, the structure and the dynamics of membrane peptides. Then, she joined Antoinette Killian’s group (University Utrecht) for 3 years as a postdoc. She worked on the interactions of amyloid peptides and artificial membranes using a biophysical approach. She was appointed associate scientist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 2009 in Laboratory of Biomolecules (Paris). In 2019, she moved to the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of Membranes and Nano-objects (CBMN) in Bordeaux and joined the team “spectroscopy and imaging of membrane active peptides”.
Using a pluridisciplinary approach conjugating peptide chemistry, biophysics and biochemistry, she has been interested in studying amyloid forming proteins. In particular, she tries to i) understand the process of fibril formation in solution and in membrane environments, ii) determine why some proteins are toxic and form fibrils only to specific cell lines, iii) find new molecules that inhibit fibril formation and cell death, and to iv) understand the behaviour of extrinsic and intrinsic factors that modulate fibril formation.
Emily Hollister
Situated at the interface of microbial ecology, bioinformatics, and biostatistics, my research group is dedicated to the study of the structure and function of mixed microbial communities. Our work includes the study of the human microbiome and microbiome-environment interactions, as well as the development and improvement of bioinformatics approaches for microbiome analysis. I am an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology & Immunology at Baylor College of Medicine and serve as the Director of Microbial Ecology for the Texas Children's Microbiome Center at Texas Children's Hospital.
Kuntal Chatterjee
I am a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA. My expertise includes various spectroscopic (time-resolved and steady-state IR, UV-Vis, table top, synchrotron, and XFEL), mass spectrometric (TOF, quadrupole, ion traps), diffraction techniques, and ab initio calculations to probe structure, solvation and dynamics of biomolecules, aromatic hydrocarbons, and artificial photosynthetic molecules.
Arja L.T. Uusitalo
I am high level professional in the field of research (for 25 years), academic teaching, health care leadership and quality work. My Medical Specialties are clinical physiology and nuclear medicine and sports and exercise medicine. I have experience and additional education in leadership and management (UEF and LUT), service design and quality in clinical practice, and experience in lean management and process. Lately, I have worked with health technology and digitalization and preventive health care. My deepest knowledge is in stress research and physiology and interests in technology in welfare sector to improve quality, productivity, processes and occupational health.
Eduardo M Richter
Eduardo M. Richter is graduated in Chemistry from the University of Santa Cruzdo Sul, Brazil (1994), and received his master’s (2000) and Ph.D. degree (2004) in Analytical Chemistry from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He completed a postdoctoral research at the University of São Paulo, Brazil during 2005. He is currently Associate Professor of the Institute of Chemistry at the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil. His current research interests focus on the development of new analytical methods using capillary electrophoresis with conductometric detection and flow-injection and batch-injection analyses with amperometric detection.
Victor Mougel
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Zürich.
Elected board member of the European Young Chemists Networks.
Thomas Kodger
Thomas completed his PhD from Harvard University in 2015 under Prof. David Weitz and postdoctoral studies from University of Amsterdam with Prof. Peter Schall. He is currently an assistant professor in the Physical Chemistry and Soft Matter laboratory at Wageningen University & Research in The Netherlands having joined in 2017.
Santosh Pandey
Dr. Santosh Pandey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University.
His research areas include bioengineering, microelectronics, microfluidics, sensors, machine intelligence, plant pathology, electrophysiology, data analytics, and drug screening.
Mahamudur Islam
Dr. M. Islam, M.Sc., Ph.D. studied M.Sc. (Chemistry) and carried out doctoral research at National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. Associate Professor at Purushottam Institute of Engineering & Technology, Rourkela, India.
Anders J Hansen
Anders J. Hansen (AJH) has extensive experience working with characterization of genetic material in difficult samples either being aDNA, eDNA, forensic genetics or degraded DNA. AJH was one for the first to use DNA technology to characterize species contents in ancient environmental samples like ice and permafrost. Currently AJH’s research interests predominant focus on forensic genetics as well as genetic identification and discovery by metagenomic analysis of DNA and RNA in complex tissue samples, recent and ancient sediments including permafrost with the aim of describing the composition, regulation and distribution of genes, microorganism, phage’s, viruses and more.
Jing Shang
Jing Shang’s research interest are heterogeneous atmospheric chemistry, and environmental photocatalysis. She is currently an Associate Professor of College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University. Dr Shang has published over 60 peer-reviewed scientific articles that have attracted over 1100 citations.