Advisory Board and Editors Neuroscience
Ligia Rusu
Dr. Ligia Rusu is a Professor within the Department of Kinetotherapy and Sport Medicine at the University of Craiova, Romania.
HIs research areas include neurologic rehabilitation, neuromuscular assessment, physiology and biomechanics. More specifically, sports medicine, neurologic rehabilitation, orthopedic rehabilitation, and orthotics and prosthetics.
Sara Salinas
Inserm Research Fellow at the Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier
Kyoshiro Sasaki
Dr. Kyoshiro Sasaki is an experimental psychologist and an Associate Professor within the Faculty of Informatics at Kansai University. He obtained his PhD in 2016 where he engaged in research on embodied emotion. He has a wide range of research interests; emotion, embodied cognition, object recognition, spatial and temporal cognition, psychological ownership, and metascience.
Dr. Sasaki is an editorial board member of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, PLOS ONE, the Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, and the Japanese Journal of Research on Emotions. He is also a Recommender of Peer Community In Registered Reports.
Susanne Schmid
Susanne Schmid is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario. Her research focuses on sensory information processing and sensory gating mechanisms. She uses mainly rodents to explore synaptic mechanisms and neuronal circuits underlying sensory gating in healthy subjects and in animal models for schizophrenia and autism.
D Samuel Schwarzkopf
Originally trained as a neurophysiologist with Frank Sengpiel (Cardiff), Sam has done cognitive neuroscience research on the human visual system since 2007. From 2008 until 2018 he worked at UCL (first as postdoc with Geraint Rees, followed by five years as independent research fellow). In 2017, he moved to the University of Auckland, New Zealand, continuing visual neuroscience research in the School of Optometry & Vision Science.
He is a Recommender (editor) at the PCI:RR and is an editor at PeerJ for Registered Reports going through this route.
Claudia Scorolli
I am a Cognitive Scientist working as Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies of the University of Bologna.
I obtained my PhD in Philosophy of Language, Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences in 2009 at the University of Bologna, and my PsyD in Clinical Psychology, specialized in Analytical Psychodrama, in 2014 at the Mosaico Institute of Bologna (certified by MIUR).
My research has been focused on grounding of language in sensorimotor processes, as well as on language as social tool which modifies human's way to interact with the world. My experimental work currently extends to the study of the possibilities for physical/social interactions offered by the current interactive context, i.e. physical and social affordances. My scientific interest includes the investigation of cultural factors influencing cognitive and emotional processes.
From a clinical perspective, I have scrutinized new clinical interventions in the field of neurocognitive disorders, as psychosocial interventions for people with dementia.
Yuan Shang
Dr. Yuan Shang works on Alzheimer's Disease (AD) at the University of Arizona. He combines any potential methods and data to search potential therapeutic opportunities for AD. He is an expert on omics data analysis, multi-omics integrations, network-based pattern recognition, and machine learning-based biomarker discoveries.
Kenichi Shibuya
Professor of Kansai University.
Researching topics such as the Impact of exercise and physical activity on cognitive function, and on vascular health; the Impact of Flavors on taste perceptions; the Impact of Chewing on cerebral activation and Cognition; the Impact of Colors on taste perceptions
Nuno A Silva
Nuno Silva completed his BSc in Applied Biology (2007) and received is PhD in Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cells from the University of Minho in 2012. His PhD work consisted on the development of novel approaches for Spinal Cord Injury Repair (SCI) based on biodegradable materials and stem cells. His PhD was carried out in the 3B’s Research Group and in the Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research of the University of Toronto. In 2012 he started a post-doc at ICVS dedicated to study the best therapeutic combination to treat the injured spinal cord.
In 2014 he was able to capture national competitive funding and started his own lab. Currently, his team is fully focused on research about SCI, from solving fundamental questions about how SCI affect the systemic immune response to design technological advanced therapies to treat this condition. The team is presently constituted by 1 post-doctoral fellows, 1 MD-PhD student and 5 PhD students.
He is currently an author of 44 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals and is an author of two patents. Nuno Silva has currently more than 2700 citations and an h-index of 23. Additionally he is author of 7 book chapters and has more than 60 communications in national and international conferences. He supervises/supervised 25 post-graduation students. Finally, during his research career, Nuno Silva was able to capture more than two million euros of competitive funding, either in research projects (1.8M) or salary grants (438K). He was honored with international funding from the Wings For Life Foundation and the La Caixa Foundation.
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.
Devraj Singh
I am an Biology Assistant Professor at University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. My current research interest involves investigating neural, genetic and epigenetic mechanism regulating latitudinal cline in critical photoperiodic response, daily clock under different life-history states, and circannual clock properties of geographically distinct dark-eyed junco populations in North America.
Jair C. Soares
Dr. Soares obtained his M.D. in 1990 from the University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Brazil. He completed his psychiatric training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroimaging research at the department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. He has extensive clinical research experience on brain imaging, neurocognitive methods and clinical trials primarily in the field of mood disorders.