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.
Luca Testarelli
Professor Testarelli is Associate at the 1st Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” since 2006. Dentist in Dental Clinic of Policlinico Umberto I’s Hospital of Rome since 2011. He completed a Ph.D with the highest marks at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (2004) and obtained a Specialization Diploma in Orthognathodontics, at the University of L’Aquila (2008). Professor Testarelli is a member of several scientific national and international associations, and a member of the editorial board for several dental scientific journals. He is also Professor of Dental Restorative, Endodontics in School of Dentistry in Sapienza University of Rome, Professor of Oral Care in School of Dental Hygienist in Sapienza University of Rome and Professor of PhD Dentistry in Sapienza University of Rome.
Robert VanBuren
Assistant professor in the department of Horticulture at Michigan State University. Previously I was an NSF-NPGI postdoctoral associate at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. I completed my PhD at the University of Illinois under Ray Ming. My broad expertise are in the areas of plant genetics, genomics, evolution and molecular biology. I am interested in crop improvement and domestication, the evolution of sex chromosomes, and adaptive traits to arid environments such as the evolution of CAM photosynthesis and desiccation tolerance in resurrection plants.
Timothy D Scheibe
Laboratory Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and Lead Scientist at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a scientific user facility located at PNNL. Research interests emphasize coupled hydrologic and biogeochemical processes as they control water quality, ecosystem health, and contaminant transport and fate. Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to perform integrated computational and experimental research across a wide range of physical scales from molecules and cells to aquifers and watersheds. Was selected by the National Ground Water Association to serve as the 2010 Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer, in which role he presented 65 invited lectures across North America and Europe.
Shaw Badenhorst
I am a zooarchaeologist at the Evolutionary Studies Institute of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. I analyse animal remains (bones and teeth) from archaeological and fossil sites. I have studied animal remains from South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Canada (British Columbia) and the USA (Southwest). My focus of my research is on the origins of hunting, the spread of livestock, and taphonomy.
Alexander Ereskovsky
I am an invertebrate embryologist, and my main areas of interest are different topics of sponges regeneration, embryonic, postembryonic development and the evolution of sponge’s morphogenesis. I'm also interested in the sponge’s biodiversity, taxonomy and phylogeny. I am currently a Senior Researcher at French National Centre for Scientific Research in Marseille and Professor in St-Petersburg State University in Russia
João Paulo Mendes Tribst
Dr. Tribst is a passionate dentist with Master's and PhD in restorative dentistry, with a specialty in dental prosthesis, from São Paulo State University. He has experience in dentistry with an emphasis on dental materials, dental prosthesis, dental ceramics, finite element analysis, dental implants, and mouthguards. He completed a sandwich PhD at ACTA (Academisch Centrum Tandheelkunde Amsterdam), School of Dentistry at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands from 09/2018 to 09/2019. He is an Assistant Professor in the Academisch Centrum Tandheelkunde Amsterdam (ACTA).
David M Nelson
David is a stable isotope ecologist. He studies diverse topics across various spatial and temporal scales, including the ecology and evolution of C4 grasses, bird and bat migration in the context of renewable-energy development, and forest and watershed biogeochemistry. He is also interested in the development of novel tools for isotopic analysis of small organic materials.
Blanca Figuerola
Blanca Figuerola is currently a Ramon y Cajal researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences of Barcelona (ICM-CSIC). She received her PhD in Biodiversity from the University of Barcelona. Her research sits between the established disciplines of taxonomy, biodiversity, ecology and conservation paleobiology using understudied marine invertebrate groups (e.g bryozoans) from tropical to cold waters as models for environmental change. During her postdoctoral research career, she has been awarded competitive grants such as Juan de la Cierva Incorporación (2018) and Beatriu de Pinós-Marie Curie-COFUND program (2020) to work at international research institutions (e.g. Australian Antarctic Division (Australia), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama) and ICM-CSIC). There, she has participated in several multidisciplinary projects involving fieldwork in Antarctic, temperate and tropical regions.
Jack C. Leo
I study bacterial pathogenesis, focusing on autotransporters of Gram-negative bacteria. These proteins are self-contained secretion systems and surface molecules that mediate a number of virulence functions. I aim to understand three aspects of autotransporter-mediated pathogenesis: 1) the mechanisms of virulence functions, 2) the biogenesis of autotransporters and 3) regulation of gene expression. All three are potential sites for intervention to prevent host colonisation and infection.
Laura Guidetti
Medical Doctor; Medical Specialization in AeroSpace Medicine, Medical Specialization in Sport Medicine; Master in Sport Sciences, PhD in Movement Sciences.
Associate Professor of “Methods and Didactics of Sport Activities” (2004 - ) at Department of Movement, Human, and Health Sciences, University of Rome “Foro Italico” Rome.
Teaching at under graduate, graduate and PhD level.
Coordinator of the Doctoral Course in “Physical Activity and Health”.
Invited teacher by different Universities in Portugal (Vila Real, Porto, Rio Maior) and Brazil (Montes Claros, Parana-Curitiba, Lavras).
Research areas: metabolic responses to exercise, effects of supplementations and drugs on sport and exercise.
Author of more than eighty original articles on international journals; reviewer of more than ten international journals on medicine and sport research.
Editorial Board Member of PeerJ, Journal of Sports Medicine, Journal of Sports Medicine, Journal Biology of Exercise, Theories & Application, the International Edition (TAIE), BioMed Research International.
Fellow member of the American College of Sport Medicine (ACSM).
Zunnan Huang
Professor in Chemistry; Director, Key Laboratory of Big Data Mining and Precision Drug Design; Director, Key Laboratory of Computer-Aided Drug Design of Dongguan City; Vice Dean, Graduate School of Guangdong Medical University; PhD in Computational Chemistry and Physical Chemistry obtained from the University of Oklahoma; Guest Editor, Current Pharmaceutical Design, Current Medicinal Chemistry, Frontiers in Chemistry, Molecules; Reviewer for more than 50 SCI journals including Journal of the American Chemical Society, Science Advances, Nature Communications and Briefings in Bioinformatics. Authors of more than 117 SCI papers with an accumulated IF of 600.
Matthew D Wilson
Matthew (Matt) Wilson is a Professor in Spatial Information and Director of the Geospatial Research Institute Toi Hangarau at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is a surface water hydrologist and geographical information scientist with specialisations including flood risk, surface water dynamics, water resources, remote sensing, numerical model development, uncertainty analysis and the assessment of the potential impacts of climate change. Previous research has included the assessment of the potential impacts of climate change on flood risk and water resources in the Caribbean and the analysis of surface water hydrodynamics on a 300 km reach of the Amazon River in Brazil. In New Zealand, his current research includes leading the uncertainty theme for a national scale flood risk assessment, the creation of a digital twin for flood resilience, and the creation of algorithms for processing of novel airborne GNSS reflectometry measurements for estimation of soil water content.