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.

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Marie Lipoldova

M. Lipoldová received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. She did postdoctoral research in the UK at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Current position: Head of the Laboratory of Mol. Cell. Immunol. at the Institute of Molecular Genetics, AS CR in Prague. She is also Associate Professor at the Third Faculty of Medicine at the Charles University. Research program: Identification of genes that control immune response in relation to susceptibility to disease.

Stuart A. Lipton

Adjunct Professor of Neurosciences; Professor and Director, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute; Professor (adjunct), Salk Institute for Biological Studies and The Scripps Research Institute.

Neurologist/neuroscientist Stuart Lipton, MD, PhD is a renowned expert in dementia. He was trained at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. In addition to running a basic-science laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute, he has an active clinical neurology practice at UC San Diego focusing on dementia and general neurology. Lipton completed his PhD thesis research with John Dowling at Harvard, followed by clinical residency and a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard with Torsten Wiesel during the time that Wiesel won the Nobel prize. He was then on the Harvard faculty for over 20 years before moving to La Jolla as founding director of a new neuroscience center in 2000.

Dominique Lison

Professor of Toxicology and Occupational Medicine at the Catholic University of Louvain and Director of the Louvain Centre of Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology in Brussels, Belgium.

Feng Liu

Feng Liu received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and went on to work in the Department of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, China. Now he is an associate professor and his current research interests include Brain and Cognition, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Imaging Genetic and Multivariate Pattern Analysis.

Current research focuses on investigating the impact of the environmental factors (e.g., green space, PM 2.5, etc) on human brain measured by magnetic resonance imaging

Qi Liu

Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University

Jinhui Liu

Dr. Jinhui Liu, PhD is an attending physician within the Department of Gynecology at The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University (2020 - current). He obtained his PhD in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Bachelors degree in Clinical Medicine from Nanjing Medical University.

Dr Jinhui Liu's research Interests include:
[Biomarker, Prognostic Model] Systemic prognostic evaluation of Gynecological tumors
[Non-Coding RNA] Mechanism of non-coding RNA in the tumorigenesis of Gynecological tumors.
[Bulk, Single Cell RNA-seq] Integration of multi-omics approaches to reveal the mechanism of Gynecological tumors.
[Immunology] Tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) and its crucial role in tumorigenesis.
[Bioinformatics] Development of bioinformatics algorithms and software.
[Machine Learning] Artificial intelligence (AI)-based precision medicine in cancer.

Dongliang Liu

Dr. Dongliang Liu is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Surgery at the Baylor College of Medicine. His research interests include: Cancer therapy, especially for pancreatic cancer immunotherapy; Chimeric virus-like particles (VLP) vaccine, especially for cancer vaccines; Novel antibiotics development including antimicrobial peptides; Epitomics and multi-epitope peptide vaccine development for pathogenic viruses.

Tao Liu

I am an Assistant professor at Department of Biochemistry, State University of New York at Buffalo. I have expertise and extensive experience with developing and applying computational approaches for transcriptional and epigenetics regulation studies. As a postdoctoral fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, I developed widely used open-source algorithms, including MACS (cited over 3,200 times according to Google Scholar) to analyze ChIP-seq data, and an integrative platform for comprehensive analyses on cis-regulatory elements (http://cistrome.org/ap), which has over 3,000 users. I was a member of the Data Analysis Center and Analysis Working Group of the ENCODE and modENCODE consortium and was involved in deciphering functional elements through analyzing high-throughput profiles of chromatin factors and in comparing chromatin features between fly, worm and human genome. I have actively participated in the development of ChIP-seq guidelines for the broad scientific communities. My laboratory at University at Buffalo is focused on studying transcriptional and epigenetic regulatory mechanisms, and the influence of the genetic variations at regulatory elements.

Jingyu Liu

Associate Professor at the Mind Research Network; Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico. Our MRN lab focuses on developing and optimizing methods and software for quantitative analysis of structure and function in medical images with particular focus on the study of psychiatric illness. We work with many types of data, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), electroencephalography (EEG), structural imaging and genetic data.

Marco Tullio Liuzza

2019 - now: Associate Professor in Psychometrics and Research Methods in Psychology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, "Magna Graecia" University of Catanzaro.

2017 - 2019: Assistant Professor in Psychometrics and Research Methods in Psychology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, "Magna Graecia" University of Catanzaro.

2016: Postdoc, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SE.

2013: Postdoc, Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (SCNL), Department of Psychology, "La Sapienza" University of Rome, Neuroimaging Lab, IRCCS, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome.

2012: Postdoc
Laboratory of Social Neuroscience, IRCCS, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome.

Stephen J Livesley

Stephen investigates soil-plant-atmosphere interactions in natural and managed ecosystems. Stephen studied in the UK gaining a PhD in Soil Science and Agroforestry from The University of Reading.

At the University of Melbourne, Stephen has led research to quantify the carbon and greenhouse gas implications of landscape management and land-use change events in forest, woodlands and now the urban landscape. Stephen’s urban ecosystem research and teaching interests relate to the role of trees, soil and other vegetation systems in providing environmental and social benefits, such as microclimate cooling, energy saving, carbon sequestration, biodiversity habitat and improved nutrient / water cycling.

Johanna Löchner

Prof. Johanna Loechner is a Junior Professor for Mobile Assessment and Telepsychotherapy at the Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital Tübingen

Prof. Loechner's research projects focus on prevention, treatment and rehabilitation using digital technologies in children, adolescents and parents with mental disorders.