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 O Deaner
I earned my PhD in the Department of Biological Anthropology & Anatomy at Duke University (1995 – 2001), and my advisor was Carel van Schaik. Although I conducted some research on wild primates, my doctoral research consisted of comparative studies of primate life history, social systems, and cognition.
I did postdoctoral research in Duke’s Department of Neurobiology (2001-2006), and my supervisor was Michael Platt. My research focused on mechanisms of social attention in primates. During this time I took up distance running and began investigating sex differences in performance and motivation.
In 2006, I joined the Psychology Department at Grand Valley State University.
Astrid Zech
Prof. Dr. Astrid Zech is head of the Department of Movement Science and Exercise Physiology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
Her primary research interests include; Sensorimotor control over the lifespan; Habitual running patterns, barefoot running; Sports injuries / injury prevention; Rehabilitation and exercise therapy and Sports in old age.
Filipe Prazeres
Prof. Filipe Prazeres is an integrated doctoral researcher in the Health for All research group, in the Research Line (LT1) - Preventive Medicine & Societal Challenges - Center for Health Technology and Services Research (CINTESIS). He has a PhD in Medicine from the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Beira Interior with the thesis “MM-PT study: multimorbidity in primary care” (2018). Prof. Prazeres research interest is focused on patients who present multiple chronic medical conditions (multimorbidity) in primary care settings. His work addresses the epidemiological description of multimorbidity and its consequences, as well as relations between multimorbidity and psychosocial and sociodemographic characteristics, health and disease determinants, chronic illness management, patient-centered care, using quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
John M Ringo
Professor Emeritus of Biology, University of Maine. Past Associate Editor, Behavior Genetics and past Associate Editor, Evolution.
Nicholas W Jeffery
Aquatic science biologist at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Adjunct Faculty, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph; PhD from the University of Guelph in Integrative Biology.
Robert Costanza
Professor of Ecological Economics, University College London, Institute for Global Prosperity, Senior Fellow, Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm, Sweden; Affiliate Fellow, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont; deTao Master of Ecological Economics, deTao Masters Academy, Shanghai China
Thiago M Venancio
Associate Professor (UENF; Brazil), 2010-present; Postdoctoral fellow at NCBI-NIH (USA), 2008-2010; PhD in Bioinformatics (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), 2004-2008.
My lab focuses on genomic and transcriptomic studies of plants, fungi and bacteria. Our main goals involve the generation and analysis of big biological datasets using computational methods to understand key aspects of living organisms, such as: 1) the evolution of multidrug resistance genes in Fungi; 2) the evolutionary basis of gene essentiality in Bacteria and Archaea; 3) the transcriptional landscape and regulatory apparatus of land plants, particularly legumes.
Kimberly A Bishop-Lilly
Deputy Head of Genomics Department at Naval Medical Research Center, Biological Defense Research Directorate; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Selina Khoo
Selina Khoo is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Science, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. Her research is related to participation of sports and physical activity for various populations, including older adults, persons with disabilities, women, and cancer survivors. This includes determining prevalence of physical activity, motives for participation, and interventions to increase physical activity. She also examines various aspects of disability sport, including accessibility, barriers and facilitators to participation, and media coverage. Selina is currently the country contact for Malaysia on the Global Observatory for Physical Activity and Vice President of the Asian Society for Adapted Physical Education and Exercise.
Cristina W Nogueira
Associate professor at Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil. My current research interests center around the pharmacology and toxicology of organochalcogen compounds. Scopus researcher award/2010.
Richard B Taylor
Senior Lecturer in Marine Ecology at the University of Auckland's Leigh Marine Laboratory, New Zealand. I'm interested in the ecology of temperate rocky reefs, particularly the roles played by small mobile invertebrates.
Zhi Yang
Zhi Yang is a Senior Manager in Biostatistics at Bristol Myers Squibb (2021-). She holds a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Southern California. Her research interests include data science, machine learning, genomics, public health, Bayesian inference, and cancer research.