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.
Frank JH Lu
Frank J.H. Lu PhD. is Professor of the Graduate Institute of Sport Coaching Science, Chinese Culture University. Professor Lu completed his doctoral degree in 1998 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). He is the former president of the Society for Sport and Exercise Psychology of Taiwan (SSEPT) from 2005 to 2007, and an active member in the international sport psychology bodies, such as Association of Applied Sport Psychology (AASP), International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP), North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA), European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC) and Asian South Pacific Association of Sport Psychology (ASPASP). Frank enjoys teaching and instructing graduate students in sport and exercise psychology. His major research interest in sport psychology is student athletes’ life stress, PST interventions, and psychological well-being. As to exercise psychology he focuses on physical self and quality of life.
Veronika Lukacs-Kornek
Veronika Lukacs-Kornek, is a Junior professor for molecular immunology and gastroenterology at the University of Saarland, Germany and the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award winner in 2012 (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation).
Research field includes dendritic cell biology, antigen presentation, immunoregulatory circuits operating in secondary lymphoid organs and the study of stromal cell-immune cell interactions.
Julius Lukes
Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences (P.I.); Professor at the Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic; Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced research, Toronto, Canada.
Primary interest is functional analysis of selected mitochondrial proteins of the kinetoplastid Trypanosoma brucei.
Erica Lumini
Dr. Erica Lumini is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council of Italy. Her general area of research focuses on Environmental Microbiology, and more specifically:
• Interaction between soil microbes (nitrogen-fixing actinomycetes; EM ectomycorrhizal fungi; arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, AMF) and plants of agricultural and forestry interest.
• Molecular characterization of symbiotic endobacteria and microorganisms associated with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi.
• Molecular ecology, biodiversity and soil microbial networks (prokaryotes, eukaryotes) in natural and agroforestry ecosystems (soils subjected to land-use gradient).
Carole A Lunny
Carole Lunny is a postdoctoral fellow at the Cochrane Hypertension and Therapeutics Initiative, at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. Carole Lunny is a PhD graduate from Cochrane Australia, Monash University (June of 2018). Carole’s research interests involve methodological issues in conducting, interpreting, and reporting "overviews of systematic reviews".
Carole's PubMed publications can be found here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=lunny+c%5Bauthor%5D
She can be found on twitter @carole_lunny
She worked as a researcher and statistical analyst on systematic reviews and meta-analyses, randomised control trials, and observational studies. She has worked for international development organisations in the US, Canada, Singapore, Myanmar, Thailand and Mexico, including the Unites Nations Development Fund, UNICEF, and the International Union for Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis.
Carole's main research Interests: Research methodology, reporting guidelines for overviews of reviews, assessment of risk of bias of studies, publication bias, reviews of methods studies, evaluation of methods studies, overviews of systematic reviews methods, systematic reviews, Cochrane methods
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7825-6765
Gerton Lunter
My group is interested in investigating the processes of evolution and biology using computational methods. We apply machine learning methods (HMMs, Bayesian statistics, particle filters, deep learning) to large data sets to study for example human demographic history or non-coding functional elements in the genome.
Weiqi Luo
With a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from the University of Shantou, China (2003), a M.Sc. in Data Analysis, Network and Nonlinear Dynamical System from the University of York, UK (2004), and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Leeds, UK (2008), Dr. Luo has gained extensive knowledge& experience in applied mathematics and statistics, computer simulations & forecasting, dynamic system and high-dimensional data analysis, to study disease dispersal and mitigation on a multinational scale. He has worked several years as biostatistician at The Food and Environmental Research Agency (UK) before beginning research in Florida (2011) as collaborated research scholar in NCSU and visiting scientist USDA. He played a key role in a wide range of multidisciplinary projects including, but not limited to, risk-based survey of HLB/ACP in FL, CA, TX and AZ, Plum Pox Virus (PPV) survey in NY and CA, Census travel modelling, agent-based disease simulation, GIS disease mapping and Aerial image processing.
Weijun Luo
Faculty member at the Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, College of Computing and Informatics, UNC Charlotte.
Research areas include: High throughput genomic data analysis Computational method development and implementation Systems biology on complex diseases and processes Biomedical informatics and computing Personal genome and personalized medicine
Alexandra Lusser
Associate Professor at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria. Our work includes the study of chromatin modulating factors in Drosophila and mouse and the analysis of posttranscriptional modifications on RNA.
Michael T Lynskey
Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine