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.
Giuseppe Marcolin
Giuseppe Marcolin is an Associate Professor in Sports Science at the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Padova, Italy. He obtained a BSc in Physical Education (ISEF) at the University of Bologna. Then, he obtained his MSc in Human Movement Sciences and his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Padova. His scientific activity is devoted to biomechanical and electromyographical analysis applied to functional assessment in sports training and rehabilitation. He mainly focuses on understanding the influence static and dynamic balance control has on sports performance among athletes and fall risk among older adults. He is a member of the Italian Society of Motor and Sport Sciences (SISMES). He collaborated with the International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA) as a member of the organizing committee of the ISEA Winter School editions.
Pablo A Marquet
Dr. Marquet is a Chilean Ecologist, known for his contributions in the fields of macroecology, theoretical ecology, conservation, and global change, and author of 190 publications including three books. Early in his carrier he started working on the quest for general principles underlying the complexity of ecological systems that contributed to the disciplines of metabolic ecology and ecological scaling. His work on the relationship between the size of organisms and their abundance proved to be of great generality as well as his work on the evolution of body size on landmasses; connecting body size to area, evolution, and fitness. He pioneered the development of Metapopulation models in dynamic landscapes uniting concepts from epidemiology and ecology and the emergence of power laws in ecological systems, being among the first to provide empirical evidence of Self-Organized Criticality in ecological systems using the extinction record of birds in Hawaii. In parallel, he carried important work on the conservation of vertebrate species and on the impact of climate change in the Americas and Europe. His current work focuses on the emergence of ecological diversity, the drivers and consequences of human cultural complexity and the integration of theories in ecology. He is member of the Chilean National Academy of Science, a former Guggenheim Fellow and member of the science board of several national and international organizations.
Stephen Marsland
Stephen Marsland is a professor of mathematics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He works on mathematics of conservation biology, particularly birdsong analysis, on differential geometry of machine learning, diffeomorphic shape analysis, and game theory.
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.
Julien GA Martin
I am generally interested in understanding the causes of variation in life history traits in wild populations, with particular on the causes and consequences of within-individual variation in life history. The focus of my research is the evolutionary ecology of reproductive strategies and understanding the impact of environmental variation on adaptation and evolution of traits.
Lecturer, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
2013-2015 Marie-Curie Fellow, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
2010-2012 Postdoctoral fellow, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
2006-2010 PhD University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
Santiago Martín-Bravo
I am an Associate Professor and researcher at Botany Area of the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemical Engineering at Pablo de Olavide University (Seville, Spain). I am a botanist but I also like to define myself as an evolutionary biologist. My final objective is to contribute to the knowledge and conservation of the biodiversity that surrounds us. My main research interests are on systematics and evolution of angiosperms. I try to answer questions related with the topics of when, how and why are species (and in general biodiversity) generated. I am also very interested in biogeography, this is, explaining the processes causing the distribution of species. To accomplish these task, I use multidisciplinar approaches ranging from classic taxonomy to molecular phylogenetics, estimation of divergence times, cytogenetic evolution, phylo- and biogeographic analyses. Finally, I am also interested in conservation biology, particularly in relation with conservation genetics. I am also the curator of UPOS herbarium
Susana Martinez-Conde
Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, Physiology at the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center. Founding Member and President of the Neural Correlate Society and Executive Producer of the annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest. Former Executive Board Member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Advisory Board Member and Columnist for Scientific American Mind.
Jesús Marugán-Lobón
Dr. Marugán-Lobón is a Paleobiologist from the Universidad autónoma of Madrid, Spain. He is an specialist in Geometric Morphometrics, and his research is focused in understanding macroevolutionary trends in vertebrates, and in particular, the dinosaur-bird transition. He belongs to the research staff of the Las Hoyas fossil site, is Research Associate of the Dinosaur Institute (NHM), and colaborates with the Theoretical Biology Lab, Cavanilles Institute of Biological Diversity and Evolution.
Yoshinori Marunaka
Prof. Marunaka is the President and the Representative Director, Director of Clinical, and Director of Medical Research Institute, Kyoto Industrial Health Association; Professor, Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University; Professor Emeritus, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine; Former President, Physiological Society of Japan. Former President, International Society of Cancer Metabolism. MD (1979), PhD (1985), Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine; National License of Physician and Surgeon, Japan (1979). He was Professor and Chairperson, Departments of Molecular Cell Physiology and Bio-Ionomics, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan, and Director and Professor, Japan Institute for Food Education and Health, St. Agnes’ University. He was awarded “Vebleo Nanomedicine Scientist Award” (Sweden), “Marco Polo della Scienza Italiana” (Italy), The Premier's Research Excellence Award (Canada), Scholar Award (Medical Research Council of Canada) and Research Award from National Kidney Foundation of USA. He has obtained more than 60 research grants, published more than 270 peer reviewed articles, and provided more than 30 invited plenary lectures at international congresses and research conferences. h-index 47, i10-index 190, Citation 7498
Florentine Marx
Associate Professor at the Medical University of Innsbruck. We are interested in the mechanistic function and structure of antimicrobial/antifungal proteins and peptides and the identification of target molecules for the development of new antimicrobial/antifungal therapies.
Frank Onderi Masese
Dr. Frank Masese is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Science at the University of Eldoret.
He is an aquatic ecologist with broad interests ranging from biodiversity, nutrient cycling, food webs and biomonitoring in streams and rivers.
Jorg J.M. Massen
I am a comparative psychologist specializing in social cognition. Currently I work as an Assistant Professor at the Animal Behaviour and Cognition Group of Utrecht University (NL). My research mainly focuses on the proximate mechanisms underlying animal social relations, with special interest in cooperative and prosocial behaviours. For that I use both observational and experimental approaches. Moreover, to put my studies in an evolutionary perspective, I employ a broad comparative approach, focusing on a variety of primate and bird species.