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.
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.
Tanvir Shahzad
Dr. Tanvir Shahzad is an Associate Professor at the Government College University, Faisalabad. He is an environmental scientist with a PhD in Agronomy, Ecology, Biogeochemistry from AgroParisTech.
Dr. Shahzad's research focuses on the intersections of soil biology, soil ecology, and use and assessment of nanomaterials for the benefit and sustainability of soils, more specifically, he is currently working on making Pakistan's soils sustainable.
Emanuela Felley-Bosco
Graduated in toxicology at the University of Lausanne, then trained at the Occupational Health Science Institute and at the Swiss Experimental Cancer Institute, and at the National Cancer Institute, USA. Main interest is cancer-related inflammation with special focus on mesothelioma. Principal investigator of translational research projects for the treatment of patients with mesothelioma, and non-clinical studies, which aim at a better understanding of the biology of mesothelioma development.
Sergiy Yakovenko
Dr. Yakovenko is an associate professor in Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute in West Virginia University, where his laboratory develops interdisciplinary expertise in neurophysiology and computational neuroscience to address questions in system motor control. The research program is focused on developing reliable neural interfaces capable of controlling dexterous prosthetic devices.
Luigi Di Biasi
Luigi Di Biasi is a Researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Salerno.
Since 2023, he has been a Deferred Tenured Teacher for the A041 STEM class at ITT Maria Curie – Naples (NATF190001).
He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Salerno in 2010 and his Master’s degree in Computer Science in 2014. In 2023, he completed his PhD in Computer Science at the same university.
Starting from the 2023/24 academic year, he has been a lecturer and co-instructor for courses on Databases, Statistics, and Data Analysis.
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.
Claudio R. Lazzari
Professor at the University of Tours and researcher at the Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte. Interested on the study of the behavioural physiology of insects, in particular disease vectors, using an integrative approach. orcid.org/0000-0003-3703-0302
Bettina Böttcher
Professor for Biochemistry with Focus on electron Cryo Microscopy at the Julius Maximilians University Würzburg
Tony Robillard
Professor at Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. Curator of insect collections and sound library. Scientific head of the edition service of MNHN. My research focusses on the diversity of communication systems in orthopteran insects in space and time. I use multidisciplinary approaches combining phylogenetics, biogeography, taxonomy, bioacoustics, biomechanics, behavioral studies and data obtained both in the lab and in the field.