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.
Philip H Kass
Philip Kass received his DVM in 1983; Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in 1984, MS in Statistics in 1988, and PhD in Epidemiology in 1990. His post-doc was at UCLA under Dr. Sander Greenland. Currently Professor of Analytic Epidemiology at the School of Veterinary Medicine and School of Medicine at the University of California, Davis. Vice Provost of Academic Affairs since July 2017. Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, and is the former Chair of the Department of Population Health and Reproduction.
Bernardo Franco
Dr. Franco has 20 years experience in academic research in microbiology, molecular biology, and biochemistry. Skills acquired during academic research include mainly nucleic acid manipulation, synthetic biology, bioinformatics, PCR, RT-PCR and qPCR, protein purification and characterization, light and confocal microscopy, flow cytometry and cell sorting, microbiological techniques (microorganism and cell culture, and collection management), good laboratory practices among others. He has eight years teaching experience in undergraduate and graduate programs (Signal transduction in bacteria and Molecular biology techniques, respectively).
Nigel R Andrew
My current research interests focus on the impacts of a rapidly changing climate and environment on insect behaviour, ecology and physiology; insect community structure along environmental gradients; and insect-plant interactions.
I am currently Editor-in-Chief of Austral Ecology. a Fulbright Senior Scholar (2020) and an Australian Research Council College of Experts panel member.
Tsung-Min Hung
Tsung-Min Hung (Ernest) currently works as a research chair professor at the Department of Physical Education , National Taiwan Normal University. He was inducted as a fellow for the National Academy of Kinesiology (US) and the International Society of Sport Psychology in 2018. His research mainly focuses on two areas. The first area is about enhancing sport performance through cortical intervention. Specifically, EEG signature of superior sport performance, precision sports such as golf, shooting, archery, and service in racket sports in particular, as well as neurofeedback are his current endeavor. The second area of research focus on neurocognitive effect of physical activity. Children with ADHD, the elderly participants, and young children are his current targeting population.
Liang Wang
Prof. Wang is currently a tenured full professor and distinguished medical researcher at Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, where he leads a research group in intelligent medicine, digital health, and clinical microbiology. He is also an adjunct research fellow at the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Queensland (2023-2026), adjunct research fellow at the Division of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Australia (2023-2026), and associate professor (Nov. 2022-Oct. 2025) at the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia. Prof. Wang is a supervisor for PhD students at South China University of Technology (SCUT), MSc students at South Medical University (SMU) and Xuzhou Medical University (XZMU), and also supervises PhD students at the University of Queensland and the University of Western Australia.
Prof. Wang was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy Degree from the University of Western Australia in 2014 and received his postdoctoral training at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) and Curtin University (Perth, Australia). Prof. Wang serves as an associate editor at Journal of Translational Medicine, Frontiers in Microbiology, and Gene Reports. He also serves as an editorial board member at BMC Microbiology, BMC Bioinformatics, Heliyon (Advisory Member), PLOS One (Academic Editor), Immunity, Inflammation and Disease (Emerging Editor), Translational Metabolic Syndrome Research, Future Integrative Medicine, Frontiers in Bioinformatics, iMeta, and Medicine Advances, etc. Prof. Wang is frequently invited to review manuscripts for multiple journals such as Lancet Digital Health, etc.
Prof. Wang has edited seven books and published more than 130 peer-reviewed papers in international journals such as The Lancet Microbe, npj Digital Medicine, Trends in Analytical Chemistry, ISME J, Journal of Advanced Research, BMJ Health & Care Informatics, etc. He is the recipient of the Rising Star Award in Measurement Science by the American Society for Chemistry and Australia-China Helicobacter Research Fellowship (2019), awarded by the Australia-China Council and Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Barry Marshall.
Sharif S Aly
As a veterinary epidemiologist I specialize in dairy cattle infectious diseases and welfare. I received my veterinary medicine degree from Cairo University (1998), practiced for two years before completing the Food Animal Production Medicine Internship at the Caine Veterinary Teaching Center at the U of Idaho, followed by the Food Animal Reproduction and Herd Health Residency at U of California, Davis. I completed my masters and doctoral degrees at UC Davis in Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Epidemiology, respectively.
Eric J Ward
I’m a statistician / quantitative ecologist at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NOAA) in Seattle and an affiliate professor at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (SAFS) at the University of Washington. I work on a wide range of statistical problems – population dynamics, extinction risk, conservation genetics, fisheries stock assessment, reproductive success studies, etc. Most of the species I study are fish, but I also work with data from marine mammals, seabirds, and turtles. Much of my recent modeling interests have been pursuing applications of multivariate state-space time series and spatio-temporal models, isotope mixing models, and Bayesian model selection techniques.
Stephen L Macknik
Stephen L. Macknik trained as a postdoc with Zachary Mainen at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and David Hubel at Harvard Medical School. He has a BA in Psychobiology, Biology and Psychology from the Univ of California, Santa Cruz, and a PhD in Neurobiology from Harvard Univ, with Margaret Livingstone. His research seeks to understand the neural underpinnings of visual awareness and attention, and the neural consequences of cerebral blood flow in the healthy brain and in neurological disorders.
Michael G LaMontagne
Ph.D. Biology, Boston University. NATO Advanced Study Institute: Molecular Ecology of Aquatic Microbes. NASA Planetary Biology Intern at the Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Marine Biological Laboratory, Summer Course in Microbial Diversity, Woods Hole, MA
Research Projects include: Microbial Ecology; Plant-Microbe Interactions; Metagenomics; Microbial Discovery; Biogeochemistry.
Rohit Upadhyay
Dr. Rohit Upadhyay is a Research Scientist in the School of Medicine at Tulane University.
He has skills and expertise in the following areas; Cancer Genetics, Cell and Molecular biology, Kidney Injury, Pharmacology, and Molecular mechanisms of complex diseases.
Cristina Capusa
Associate Professor of Nephrology, PhD and Habilitated Doctor in Nephrology at the "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest and attending physician (consultant in Nephrology and Internal Medicine) at a university-affiliated tertiary-care hospital. Former secretary of the Romanian Society of Nephrology and currently member of the society board.
Research interest in: chronic kidney disease, renal anemia, intravenous iron therapy, mineral metabolism disorders in chronic kidney disease, oxidative stress in kidney disease and glomerular diseases.
Katherine Mitsouras
Katherine received her Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Brown University and her PhD in Biological Chemistry from the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She subsequently trained in microarray technology development at Dr Stan Nelson's lab in the Department of Human Genetics at UCLA and collaborated with Agilent Technologies to develop microarrays to detect tissue-specific alternative splicing events in humans. Since 2007 she has been an Assistant, then Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Western University of Health Sciences.