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.
Tom Bourne
Tom Bourne is Adjunct Professor & Research Team Leader in Dept of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London & Visiting Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium. He is Consultant Gynaecologist at Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital, London. He is an authority in early pregnancy complications, emergency gynaecology & gynaecological ultrasound.
He has edited 7 books, published >300 papers & been invited to speak at numerous international meetings. His H-index is 44 (Web of Science) & 68 (Google Scholar). He is on the Board & is Treasurer of the International Society for Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, President of the Association of Early pregnancy units, & Trustee of the Ectopic Pregnancy Trust. He is chair of the early pregnancy clinical studies group & sits on the research committee at the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists. He is on the steering committee of International Ovarian Tumor Analysis trial. He sat on the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound panel developing guidelines for diagnosing miscarriage in the USA (2012), the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine guidelines panel for diagnosing ovarian cancer(2014), and the American College of Radiology committee for ovarian cancer diagnosis(2016).
Holly A Bowers
My research interests have focused on molecular detection of harmful algal bloom (HAB) species and diversity in estuarine systems, including Chesapeake and Monterey Bays. HABs have become a recurring nuisance along the world’s coastlines and inland lake systems, affecting local economies through impacts on food/drinking water supplies and recreation. Tools that provide rapid, high-resolution data on species presence and abundance are key to ongoing monitoring programs to protect these areas. Taking it a step further, it is just as important to uncover information on how HAB species fluctuate with respect to population structure in between bloom events. Myriad factors can influence species composition, toxin production, and duration of bloom events - molecular fingerprinting plays a key role in untangling this complicated picture.
Dawn E Bowles
Dr. Dawn Elizabeth Bowles, PhD is Assistant Professor in Surgery within the Division of Surgical Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. She obtained her Ph.D. in Microbiology from Louisiana State University.
Mark Boyes
Professor in the Curtin enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University.
Interests span health, developmental, and clinical psychology, with the overarching aim of understanding how both individual difference and social/community variables are related to psychological, social, and educational outcomes across the life-span. I am particularly interested in individual differences in cognitive and self-regulatory processes (such as appraisal, coping, and emotion regulation) and their potential links with emotional vulnerability.
Erika M Braga
Erika Braga has a BA in Biology and a Ph.D in Parasitology from Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, where she is a Professor of Parasitology. Head of Malaria Laboratory at UFMG. Her research is focused on two distinct approaches: study of immune response in human malaria and study of avian malaria in wild birds. Academic Editor of PeerJ and PLOS ONE.
Ebba Brakenhielm
INSERM Tenured Researcher in the field of Cardiovascular Research, currently focusing on therapeutic angiogenesis with polymer-based targeted growth factor delivery.
PhD in Tumor Biology (Pr Yihai Cao, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden), and expertise in Adipose tissue angiogenesis. Postdoc at UCLA (Pr Lily Wu) in molecular imaging and tumor lymphangiogenesis field.
Member of European Vascular Biology Organisation, French society for Cardiovascular Research, French society for Angiogenesis Research.
Paolo Brambilla
Dr. Paolo Brambilla is MD specialist in Psychiatry and PhD. He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Milan, Milan, Italy; Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UTHouston, USA; Director, Psychiatric Clinic, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico; Chair, EPA Neuroimaging Section; and CoEditor in chief of Journal of Affective Disorders
He is also scientific coordinator of (1) Research Unit on Brain Imaging and Neuropsychology at the Psychiatric Clinic at the University of Verona, and of (2) of developmental psychopathology studies at the IRCCS Scientific and Clinical Institute “E. Medea”, Polo FGV, Udine.
Currently, Dr. Brambilla is leading longitudinal studies in major psychoses, mood disorders and developmental psychopathology.
He is the recipient of several national and International scientific honours and grants, and is author/co-author of more than 250 original papers published in International peer-reviewed Journals (7000 citations).
According to Web of Science, he is amongst the top 100 most cited researchers in the field of bipolar disorder and is the 32th most cited researcher in the field of ‘Neurosciences & Psychology’ of the ‘Top Italian scientists”, based on via-academy.
His current lifetime h-index is 48 as calculated by Scopus, 53 by Google Scholar, 50 by ResearchGate. He also bears the Italian National habilitations for Full Professor of Psychiatry and Full Professor of Child and Adolescent NeuroPsychiatry.
Laura A Brannelly
Laura Brannelly is an Senior Lecturer in One Health and Biostatistics, and and Australia Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her current research project focuses on the effects of disease of reproduction in frogs, specifically in species of conservation concern. She hopes to be able to directly use the information generated from her research to further conservation efforts to protect Australia’s declining frog species.
Laura received her a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology and Bachelor of Science in ecology and evolutionary biology from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2010. She went on to complete her Masters of Science in environmental biology from Tulane University in 2011 where she participated in a number of amphibian projects including clinical chemotherapy trials for treating Bd.
Laura received her PhD at James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland Australia in 2016. For her PhD research she explored the interactions between frogs, disease, and the management of critically endangered species. She explored pathogenesis of disease on understudied and endangered species, as well as determining mechanisms of population persistence.
She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh from 2016-2018, where she is investigated the interactions between frogs, chytrid fungal disease, and the environment: specifically, how climate change impacts these relationships.
Edward L Braun
Professor of Biology, University of Florida; member of UF genetics institute and Affiliate Curator Florida Museum of Natural History
Mario Brauns
Researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ and head of the food web ecology lab.
Research interests include: Lotic ecosystem processes, freshwater food webs, benthic secondary production, functional assessment, stable isotopes, invasive species.
Miriam Braunstein
Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology at Colorado State University. Our laboratory studies the basic biology and pathogenic mechanisms of mycobacterial pathogens, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacteria
William J Brazelton
Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah.