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.
Rafael Linden
M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, and currently a Full Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Neurogenesis, and former Director of the Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho at UFRJ. Research work directed at mechanisms of development of the central nervous system, neurodegeneration, and gene therapy. Best known for contributions to the understanding of the control of programmed cell death in the central nervous system, and more recently, for studies of the functional properties of the prion protein, involved in the pathogenesis of both spongiform encephalopathies and Alzheimer’s Disease.
Christian Rinke
Christian Rinke is a Research Officer at the Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE), University of Queensland, Australia. He received his PhD in Zoology from the Marine Biology Department at the University of Vienna, Austria and has since shifted his focus to the microbial world.
His research interests include genomics and the phylogeny and ecology of symbiotic and free living microbes. He focuses in particular on the uncultured majority of microbes (99%) which elude current culturing efforts. This so called “Microbial Dark Matter” can only be explored with culture-independent methods. Chris pioneered methods in high throughput single-cell genomics, the separation and sequencing of single bacterial and archaeal cells, and also employs metagenomics (the direct sequencing of environmental samples) to illuminate microbial dark matter.
Hironori Kaminaka
Associate Professor of Faculty of Agriculture, Tottori University, Japan; Past Postdoctoral Fellow of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; Past postdoctoral Fellow of National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan; Ph. D. obtained in Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan.
Amit Singh
Dr. Singh received his B.Sc. from the Government Degree College Nahan, H.P. University, India and his M.Sc. and Ph.D from Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India. After a short stint as a Research Associate in the field of Trangenics of silkworm, Bombyx mori, in Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc.), Bangalore, India, Dr. Singh moved to Academic Sinica Taiwan to pursue post doctoral research in the field of eye development using Drosophila melanogaster model system. In 2002, Dr. Singh moved to Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas to further pursue his work on Drosophila eye development and was promoted to an instructor (non-tenure track faculty) position in 2004. Dr. Singh was hired at University of Dayton as a tenure track assistant professor in 2007 and promoted to associate professor in 2013. To date, he has published one book and 52 papers.
Valter Prpic
Dr. Prpic is a cognitive psychologist. Before joining University of Bologna, he was a Senior lecturer at De Montfort University, visiting researcher at the University of Malta and a research associate at Sheffield Hallam University. Previously, he completed a postdoc and PhD at the University of Trieste.
Dr. Prpic’s research focuses on different topics related to perception and cognition. One of his main research areas focuses on the Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Coded (SNARC) and other related spatial association effects. Dr. Prpic’s research investigates spatial association effects both for numerical and other non-numerical stimuli, such as music parameters (e.g., pitch height, tempo, musical notes), emotional stimuli (e.g., facial expressions), luminance and visual illusions.
A second line of research focuses on perception and action, in particular the research of Dr. Prpic aims at investigating how musicians, athletes and common people use visual and auditory information for improving their motor performance. His other research interests include visual and auditory perception, psychophysics, attention, music cognition and sport psychology.
Lennart Martens
Professor of Systems Biology at Ghent University, Belgium and Group Leader of the Computational Omics and Systems Biology (CompOmics) group at VIB, Belgium. Editor or Editorial Board Member for several other journals, including PLoS ONE, Proteomics, Amino Acids, Molecular BioSystems, and BBA - Proteins and Proteomics. Author of three text books in the field of Proteomics Informatics.
Rafael J Najmanovich
Associate Professor, Systems & Structural Computational Pharmacology. University of Montreal, Canada. Postdoc EMBL-EBI. PhD Physics & Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. MSc Statistical Biological Physics & BSc. Molecular Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Young Jin Lee
Professor in Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University. Over 25 years of experience with over 80 publications in various fields of mass spectrometry including fundamentals, SIMS, ion mobility instrumentation, and proteomics. Current research interests include MALDI based mass spectrometry imaging of plant metabolites and forensic applications as well as analytical biomass pyrolysis especially with high-resolution mass spectrometry and dopant assisted atmospheric pressure ionization.
Michael C Hout
Michael C. Hout is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, where he directs the Vision Sciences and Memory Laboratory and co-directs the Addison Care Virtual and Augmented Reality Lab. He is also the Associate Director of the NMSU Discovery Scholars Program, and an Associate Editor at the journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. He recently finished a two-year position as Program Director at the National Science Foundation, co-directing the Perception, Action, and Cognition, and Cognitive Neuroscience programs. He has won several awards for research and teaching, including the Rising Star award from the Association for Psychological Science, as well as the Early Career Award for Exceptional Achievements in Creative Scholarly Activity and the Donald C. Roush Award for Teaching Excellence from NMSU.
Stéphane Compant
Stéphane Compant (PhD. Reims, France 2007; Associate Professor of Microbiology at the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse in France since 2009; Sabbathical years since 2012; Project leader/Scientist at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology since 2012; Habilitation in 2017 at University of Bordeaux/Bordeaux Sciences Agro) has coordinated several research and training programmes for national and international agencies. He is a leading research expert in microbial ecology of endophytic bacteria and fungi interacting with plants, beneficial or not. He also works on beneficial plant-microbe interactions in general, and biocontrol of plant diseases using various biocontrol agents from different sources. Stéphane Compant was a member of the Management Committee France, as well as a STSM member on European cost action FA1103. He also represented Austria on European cost action FA1303, co-chair of microbial ecology, EIP-Agri Pests and Diseases in Viticulture, and serves on various review committees and scientific journal boards.
Giovanni Ottoboni
My research interests spread across the domains of clinical and general psychology.
I am interested in studying how to implement psychosocial care programs for frail people at best. In particular, I am exploring the ways decision-making processes can improve the services supporting people with dementia and the strategies to make more effective palliative care programs.
Since late 2018, I have been co-coordinating an E+ project, the SiDeCar project, which aims to develop a Higher Education program of studies focused on psychosocial care for people with dementia.
Finally, I am interested in studying the implicit and explicit mental processes mediating reflexive representations and the ones supporting both human-human and human-objects interaction.
Alain Dubois
Professor of zoology at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Specialist of the systematics of amphibians, of zoological taxonomy and nomenclature, and of biological terminology. Former Director of the herpetology laboratory of the MNHN. Former Chief Editor of “Amphibia-Reptilia” and “Alytes”. Chief Editor of “Bionomina”, Nomenclature Editor of “Zootaxa”. Large teaching experience in taxonomy and nomenclature, currently within the frame of the Distributed European School of Taxonomy.