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.
Anne Marie Kuijpers-Jagtman
My expertise is in the field of orthodontics, cleft lip and palate, and craniofacial anomalies, in particular clinical and translational research. I have a long-standing interest in the biological mechanisms of orthodontic tooth movement. In recent years, my research interests have also been in 3D-imaging and evidence based orthodontics. I am an experienced editor and author. I (co)authored over 375 publications in Medline.
At present I work as Senior Faculty & Educator at the University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Orthodontics, in Groningen, The Netherlands. I serve as Adjunct Professor at the University of Bern, Department of Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopedics in Switzerland, and at Universitas Indonesia Faculty of Dentistry in Jakarta in Indonesia. From 2014-2018 I was Confidential Adviser on scientific integrity for the Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, dealing with suspicions or concerns related to plagiarism, scientific deceit or fraud.
Min Zhao
I pursued my bioinformatics Ph.D. degree in the center of bioinformatics in Peking University. During my Ph.D. study, I received comprehensive training in molecular biology, biostatistics and bioinformatics including research designs, computational tool development and database implementation. With a solid background and comprehensive knowledge in bioinformatics and biological networks, I filled a postdoctoral research fellow position at the Vanderbilt University. During this period, I received excellent training in the understanding of genetics of complex diseases including cancer and pulmonary disease, and I applied my bioinformatics skills in analysis of large scale next-generation sequencing (NGS) data.
To date, I have worked in four different research areas. The first is data collection from public literature and databases to build bioinformatics tools for public use. The second is the integrative analysis of NGS data to decipher the genetic mechanism of complex disease. Thirdly, I applied network-based strategy on the interplay of tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) and oncogenes (OCGs) using the public cancer genomic/epigenetic data. Lastly, I translated my disease genomics expertise to huge marine genomic data to explore the common cell-cell communication mechanisms of metazoan.
Fabiano Thompson
Oceanographer and Professor of Marine Biology of the Institute of Biology and SAGE-COPPE of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Our research group focuses mainly on marine microbiology.
Max R Lambert
I'm an ecologist and environmental scientist who studies a diversity of conservation and restoration issues for biodiversity and ecosystems.
Tika Adhikari
Dr. Adhikari is a principal research scholar and plant pathologist at the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. His research interests include exploring population biology, genetic mapping, and plant-pathogen interactions, as well as developing molecular tools for pathogen detection. His work also focuses on improving management practices to enhance plant health and mitigate bacterial and fungal diseases in tomatoes and strawberries.
Leonardo Montagnani
I graduated in Forest Science from the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, in 1996. I took my Ph.D. in Forest Ecology at the University of Padova in 2000.
Since then I worked as a consultant for different Institutions, primarily the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, then with the Free University of Bolzano as Assistant Professor, teaching Agroecosystems at the University of Innsbruck.
Starting in 2023 I was appointed as an Endowed Professor at the Free University of Bolzano.
My main research area is the interaction between natural and cultivated systems and the atmosphere. In particular, as an expert in eddy covariance measurements, I developed a new mass conservation approach to quantify the non-turbulent transport of carbon dioxide from the forest to the atmosphere. More recently, I acted as the lead author of the protocol for the quantification of the storage of CO2 and other gasses in the canopy air layer. I'm working also on soil processes and on the exchange of alpine vegetation and the atmosphere.
Alan G McElligott
Dr. Alan McElligott is an Associate Professor in Animal Behaviour and Welfare at the Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences, City University of Hong Kong. He received his BSc from University College Cork, PhD from University College Dublin, and postdoctoral training at the University of Zurich. After serving as faculty member at the University of Nottingham, Queen Mary University of London and the University of Roehampton, he joined City University of Hong Kong in 2020. Dr. McElligott's main research areas include animal behaviour and cognition, animal welfare, and vocal communication.
Chenxi Li
Chenxi Li is an Associate Professor at School of Public Administration, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an, China. He has been invited as an article editor for journal of SAGE Open in 2020.He has been invited as an Associate Editor for International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology in 2021. He has authored and co-authored more than 25 papers and book chapters in his fields. His research interests include Natural Resource Management, Environmental Sciences, Land Use and Cover Change, Coupled-natural-and-human-systems, Urban-Rural Integrated Development.
Marco Tullio Liuzza
2024 -now: Associate Professor of Psychometrics, Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padua.
2019 - 2024: Associate Professor in Psychometrics and Research Methods in Psychology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, "Magna Graecia" University of Catanzaro.
2017 - 2019: Assistant Professor in Psychometrics and Research Methods in Psychology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, "Magna Graecia" University of Catanzaro.
2016: Postdoc, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SE.
2013: Postdoc, Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (SCNL), Department of Psychology, "La Sapienza" University of Rome, Neuroimaging Lab, IRCCS, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome.
2012: Postdoc
Laboratory of Social Neuroscience, IRCCS, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome.
C Robert Cloninger
Director, Anthropedia Institute for Well-being Research; Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis.
Feng Liu
Feng Liu received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and went on to work in the Department of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, China. Now he is an associate professor and his current research interests include Brain and Cognition, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Imaging Genetic and Multivariate Pattern Analysis.
Current research focuses on investigating the impact of the environmental factors (e.g., green space, PM 2.5, etc) on human brain measured by magnetic resonance imaging.
Homepage: https://fengliu001.github.io/
Xavier Le Roux
Senior scientist (DRex) INRAE ; Microbial and ecosystem ecologist . Deputy Director of the Microbial ecology centre of Lyon-Villeurbanne (France) www.ecologiemicrobiennelyon.fr/spip.php?rubrique31
Director of the Research Federation BioEEnViS http://bioenvis.universite-lyon.fr/
Research topics include : response of microbial communities involved in N dynamics (nitrification, denitrification...) to global change factors and disturbances ; and microbial biodiversity-ecosystem functioning/services relationships.
* over 140 articles in peer-reviewed journals; h=54 (WoS) or 64 (GoogleScholar)
* Member of the Academy of Europe www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Le_Roux_Xavier
* See my profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/X_Roux/info
* Former Chair & Coordinator of the European network BiodivERsA www.eurobiodiversa.org