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.
Ludmil B Alexandrov
I am an enthusiastic early career scientist with an interdisciplinary training and a strong computational background. My interests lie in leveraging the information hidden in large-scale omics data for better understanding of the mutational processes causing human cancer, for identifying potential cancer prevention strategies, and for developing novel approaches for targeted cancer treatment.
Tadashi Yamamoto
Professor of Cell Signal Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. Editorial Board: Genes to Cells, Molecular Biology of the Cell, Protein and Cell, Experimental & Molecular Medicine. Awarded 1987, Princess Takamatsu Cancer Research Fund Prize, 1990 Asahi Prize, 2003 NIH Fogarty Scholar-in-Residence. Former director of the Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo.
Jason M.R. Gill
Professor of Cardio-metabolic Health in the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Lead an active multi-disciplinary research group investigating the effects of exercise and diet on the prevention and management of vascular and metabolic diseases from the molecular to the whole-body level. Major research interests include: why certain population groups appear to be particularly susceptible to the adverse effects of a ‘Westernised’ lifestyle, and how lifestyle interventions can modulate this excess risk; the interactions between physical activity, energy balance, body fatness and disease risk; and the mechanisms by which exercise regulates lipoprotein metabolism. Member of the NICE guidelines update committee for prevention of type 2 diabetes, and was member of development groups for the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) guidelines for the prevention and treatment of obesity and for prevention of cardiovascular disease. Past Chair of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) Division of Physical Activity for Health and Fellow of BASES. Director of the MSc programme in Sport and Exercise Science & Medicine at the University of Glasgow.
Patrizia Lavia
Research Director at Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology (IBPM), CNR, Rome (Italy). Main research interests:
- control of the cell cycle, mitosis, and the mitotic apparatus in human cells
- origins of genetic instability and cancer
- roles of nuclear transport receptors in nuclear organization and cell division
- signalling by GTPases and kinases
- innovative drug design, drugs targeting the cell cycle
-cellular imaging
Yumeng Li
Dr. Yumeng Li is an associate professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance at Texas State University.
His primary research area focuses on sports and clinical biomechanics.
Emanuele Paci
Professor at University of Bologna. From 2004 to 2021 Associate Professor in Computational Biophysics at University of Leeds. From 2001 to 2004, Oberassistent at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich.
Karen Osborn
Midwater biologist by way of Western Washington University, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), University of California Berkeley, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Philippe Grandcolas
Head of the Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris (UMR 7205 CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE); Member of the Scientific Council, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle; Past Scientific Secretary, National Comittee CNRS; Past President, Willi Hennig Society; Associate Editor of Cladistics, Bionomina
Adegboyega K Oyelere
Educational Background: B.Sc. Chemistry (Industrial Option), 1st Class Honors, 1992, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, 1998, Brown University, Providence Rhode Island
Employment History:
July 1998 – Nov. 2001: Postdoctoral Associate and Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Nov. 2001 – Jan. 2004: Research Scientist II, Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Jan. 2004 – Aug. 2005: Senior Research Scientist, Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Aug. 2005 – April 2011: Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
Dec. 2007 – Nov. 2009: Blanchard Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
April 2011 – March 2022: Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
March 2022 – Present: Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
Francesca Peressotti
FP is Full Professor at the Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione (DPSS), University of Padova, Italy. She was Director of the PhD Course in Psychological Sciences, at the University of Padova from 2013 to 2017. From 2010 to 2013 she was Coordinator of the PhD program in Cognitive Sciences of the PhD Course in Psychological Sciences. From 2018 to 2020 she has been elected as member of the Executive Committee of the Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP). She was elected member of the Scientific Committee of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology (2013-2016), and elected member of the Executive Committee of the Experimental Psychology Section of AIP (2008-2013). She acted as a PI in several research projects funded by the University of Padua, the Italian Ministry for the Scientific Research and the National Science Fundation (US).
FP’s research is aimed at investigating the functional architecture of the language system and it is primarily based on data coming from behavioral and electrophysiological measures, comparing the performance of different individuals, such as, e.g., adults, children, bilinguals, deaf people, signers. In a general sense, the approach used is to look at the language system taking into account experimental data coming from different domains focusing on the interactions between the language system and other cognitive functions, such as spatial attention, visual short memory, executive functions, emotions.
Monique Messié
Research specialist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) working on physical/biological interactions in the oceans.
My research combines satellite products, models and in situ data to study ecosystem processes and physical/biological interactions in the coastal and open oceans. Current areas of research include physical and biological variability at regional and global scales, ecosystem response to climate and ocean change, bioluminescence in the upper ocean, marine hotspots in the California Current, connections between surface, midwater and benthic communities, and the effect of tropical islands on phytoplankton biomass and biodiversity.
Xiaolin Sun
Senior scientist, Host-Microbe Interactions, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research.