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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Fernanda Michalski

Dr. Fernanda Michalski is Associate Professor of Ecology and Conservation of Vertebrates at the Federal University of Amapá, Macapá, Brazil. Member of the British Ecological Society. Her research focuses on understanding the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on Neotropical mid sized and large-bodied vertebrates. She is particularly interested in ecology and conservation of mammals, and in understanding human-wildlife conflicts in the Brazilian Amazon.

Hope A Michelsen

Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Laboratories. A.B. in Chemistry from Dartmouth College, Ph.D. in Chemistry with a minor in Physics from Stanford University. Elected Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA).

My current research interests include developing and using optical and X-ray techniques for studying the chemistry of combustion-generated particles inside the combustor and their evolution after release into the atmosphere. My research experience includes gas-surface scattering experiments, atmospheric modeling, soot-formation studies, combustion-diagnostics development, atmospheric black-carbon measurements, and greenhouse-gas source attribution.

Sumit Middha

Providing translational genomics + bioinformatics solutions for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) big-data applications and interpretation of human variation for functional genomics and precision medicine.

Koji Mikami

Prof. Koji Mikami is Professor of Department of Food Resource Development in School of Food Industrial Sciences at Miyagi University, Japan. He is also President of the Japanese Society of Applied Phycology. Prof. Mikami received his PhD in Plant Science from Hokkaido University in 1990. His area of expertise focuses on the physiology and molecular biology of development and environmental stress response in seaweeds, and the biotechnology of seaweeds (gene transfer and genetic transformation, application of seaweed genes for land green plants).

Alexander S Mikheyev

I am principally interested in how ecological forces shape genomic evolution. To do this I have been taking advantage of ongoing developments in sequencing technology. I try to remain on the cutting edge of this fast-moving field by developing new molecular and analytical methods for sequencing, with a particular focus on degraded DNA, such as in museum specimens. I choose study organisms for their suitability to the project at hand, and have worked on everything from microorganisms, to insects to snakes. Despite this diversity, much of my work has focused on the biology of social insects, and they remain a personal passion.

A. Harvey Millar

Professor of Plant Biochemistry and Director of The Comparative Analysis of Biomolecular Networks Research and Training Centre (CABiN) at the University of Western Australia. Editorial Board Member: The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Plant Methods, The Arabidopsis Book. Recipient of the 2012 Fenner Medal for Biology from Australian Academy of Science; Science Minister's Prize -Life Scientist of the Year 2005, Australian Federal Government.

Ross H Miller

Dr. Miller is an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland (College Park, MD, USA). His research focuses on the mechanics and energetics of human locomotion in health and pathology, with an emphasis on causes and prevention of knee osteoarthritis.

Ryan E Mills

Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics and the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan.

David S. Milstone

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Carla Minoia

Dr. Carla Minoia is a MD at IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II" Bari (Italy). Her PhD involved clinical research on lymphoma, survivorship, and quality of life.

Maria Miragaia

Auxiliary Researcher at Laboratory of Bacterial Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Recipient of the 2010 European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Grant and of the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) Infectious Diseases fellows Award.

Daniel Mirman

Dan is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research investigates the neurobiology of language processing and language disorders using behavioural and eye-tracking experiments, neuroimaging, and computational modeling methods. His primary focus areas are the organisation of semantic knowledge and the functional neuroanatomy of spoken language.