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.
Luis G. C. Pacheco
Dr. Luis Pacheco is currently an Associate Professor of Biotechnology (Molecular Biology) at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), in Salvador-BA, Brazil. During 2019, he has also been working as a Visiting Researcher at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Boston-MA, USA. He received his 2010 PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from a leading university in Brazil, the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), with an international split-site scholarship period (2008-2009) at the University of Warwick, in the United Kingdom. His research is focused on using functional genomics and synthetic biology approaches for development of novel genetic tools with broad applications in biotechnology, particularly in the fields of diagnostics of infectious diseases and therapeutics of inflammatory diseases.
Emanuele Paci
Professor at University of Bologna. From 2004 to 2021 Associate Professor in Computational Biophysics at University of Leeds. From 2001 to 2004, Oberassistent at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich.
Patrícia Padilha
Prof. Patrícia Padilha holds a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the Josué de Castro Nutrition Institute (INJC) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where she holds the position of Associate Professor at the INJC of UFRJ. Prof. Padilha is also leader of the Nutrition and Pediatrics Research Center (NUTPED), which is linked to the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics (maternal and child sector) and develops its care activities at the Instituto de Puericultura e Pediatria Martagão Gesteira (IPPMG/UFRJ), including participation in an outpatient clinic for nutritional support and diabetes. As a researcher, Prof. Padilha is accredited to the Postgraduate Program in Nutrition at INJC/UFRJ and in the Master's Program in Maternal and Child Health at IPPMG/UFRJ, and since 2020 she has been a Research Productivity fellow at CNPq. She is currently coordinator of the Integrated Multi-professional Residency Program in Child and Adolescent Health at IPPMG / UFRJ. She has experience in the field of Nutrition, with an emphasis on maternal and child nutrition, working mainly on the following topics: nutritional therapy in pediatrics, clinical nutrition in pediatrics, prenatal nutritional assistance and nutrition applied to chronic diseases in pediatrics.
Marco Painho
Marco Painho is a Professor of Geographic Information Systems and Science at the Nova School of Information Management (NOVA IMS) of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. He holds a degree in Environmental Engineering by the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, a Master in Regional Planning by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a PhD in Geography by the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the coordinator of the Master in Geographic Information Systems and Science (UNIGIS PT) and the Master od Science in Geospatial Technologies (Erasmus Mundus). He has over 30 years of experience in the GIS domain and coordinated over 100 projects in the application areas of the environment, natural resources management transportation, teaching among others. He is the author and editor of over 200 academic and professional publications.
Abhijit P Pakhare
Associate Professor of Community & Family Medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal. Involved in public health and health system research. Completed an extramural project funded by Indian Council of Medical Research on nutritional status of tribal adolescents. Currently working on community based interventions for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) risk factor reduction strategies.
Isabel M Palacios
University at Madrid, Spain; PhD at EMBL Germany; Postdoc at the Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, UK; Group Leader as a Royal Society University Research Fellow and currently as a University Senior Research Fellow, Cambridge, UK. Also a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, UK
Ghanshyam Palamaner Subash Shantha
Dr. Ghanshyam Palamaner Subash Shantha is an academic cardiac electrophysiologist and faculty physician at Wake Forest University. His clinical interests include atrial fibrillation, leadless pacemakers and ventricular tachycardia management, and his research interests include epidemiology and prevention of diseases.
Sean P. Palecek
Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Francesca Palladino
My lab in interested in the epigenetic regulation of germline identity, and how epigenetics influences the organismal response to stress, using the nematode C. elegans as a model system. To address these questions, we use a combination of genetic, molecular, microscopy and genome wide approaches.
Colin Palmer
An engineer by training with a wide interest in low speed aerodynamics and the fluid dynamics of animal locomotion. PhD topic was the flight of the large pterosaurs. Research Associate at the universities of Bristol and Southampton in the UK.
Juan E. Palomares-Rius
My scientific career has been developed in the field of Plant Protection, mainly in plant-parasitic nematodes and how these organisms interact with the plants and other microorganisms in the soil in order to design effective Integrated Management in the agrosystem. Plant-parasitic nematodes could be a major limiting biological constrains for many crops. I have developed five main research lines during my scientific career: i) Study of the interaction plant-nematodes including the plant resistance characterization; ii) Integrative diagnostics and molecular characterization of plant-parasitic nematode species (including description of new species and group phylogenies). This subject has been done with genera as important as Meloidogyne, Pratylenchus, Xiphinema or Longidorus among others; iii) Soil ecological relationships in order to understand the nematode biodiversity; iv) Genetic population structure and molecular diversity of nematodes and plant-viruses vectored by nematodes; v) Genome sequencing and analysis. Nowadays I am working in the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture-CSIC (Spain) in order to unravel the diversity and new control methods against plant-parasitic nematodes in crops.
Feng Pan
Dr. Pan is a Senior Research Fellow at Menzies Institute for Medical Research. He has been researching both epidemiology and clinical interventions to osteoarthritis-related pain. Much of his work has been on identifying biomechanical risk factors for chronic pain and osteoarthritis, identifying pain and osteoarthritis phenotypes and testing new therapeutic treatments.