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.
Ajinkya M Pawar
Dr. Ajinkya Pawar is a dedicated researcher and enthusiastic adopter of new technologies which improve treatment results both for doctors and patients. He has decided to dedicate his work life to broaden and expand his knowledge for Endodontics. In his young span as Endodontist, he has already published more than 90 scientific studies in both National and International Indexed Journals with high Impact Factors, and a few more in press and under preparation, together with high ranked International Researchers.
He is passionate about learning new developments in Endodontics and he has travelled around the world pursuing this passion. He has attended various numerous National and International Conferences as a Student, Delegate, Keynote/Guest Speaker, Chairperson, and Moderator. He also serves as the Editorial Board member of various journals.
Dr. Ajinkya has been awarded with Fellowship by Pierre Fauchard Academy (India and USA Section) in 2016, Best Endodontist of the Year 2016, 2017, 2019 by FamDent India and India's Young Dental Researcher of the Year 2017.
Godfrey D Pearlson
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology at Yale University School of Medicine and founding Director of the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center at the Institute of Living, Hartford, CT. Medical school, University of Newcastle/Tyne, UK. Graduate degree in philosophy, Columbia University, NY. Psychiatry chief residency & postdoctoral training, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Founding Director & Professor, Division of Psychiatry Neuroimaging, Johns Hopkins SOM.
Joel Pearson
The lab investigates how we experience, simulate, understand and remember information from the world around us. More specifically we investigate the phenomenology, mechanisms and neural basis of mental imagery, working memory, decision-making, visual perception, learning and the clinical applications for all these processes. We currently utilise behavioural methods, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), all with human subjects.
Gustavo R Pedrino
Dr. Gustavo Pedrino is currently, an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiological Sciences at the Institute of Biological Sciences of the Federal University of Goiás (ICB/UFG), where he coordinates the Center for Research in Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Physiology.
His research focuses on the influence of central inflammatory processes on neuronal and sympathetic hyperactivity in cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and heart failure; neural pathways and mechanisms involved in the cardiovascular improvement observed with physical training; polymorphisms of ACE and ACE II enzymes and susceptibility to the development of cardiovascular diseases; synthesis of prototypes for drugs that act on the cardiovascular system; metabolic programming during pregnancy, lactation, and puberty; and physiopharmacology of natural and synthetic products.
Dr. Pedrino graduated in Biological Sciences (Medical Modality) from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). He obtained the titles of Master and Doctor in Science from the Graduate Program in Pharmacology at UNIFESP. During the doctorate, he spent one year as a Research Fellow at the Department of Physiology of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and completed postdoctoral studies at UNIFESP.
He served as the Coordinator of the Multicenter Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences (2012-2013) and the Undergraduate Course in Biomedicine at ICB/UFG (2014-2018). Acted as Secretary (2017-2018) of the Deliberative Council and Treasurer (2019-2020) of the Brazilian Society of Physiology (SBFis).
Currently, he is the Director of ICB/UFG (2018-2022/2022-2026), President of the Deliberative Council of SBFis, and Treasurer of the Federation of Experimental Biology Societies (FeSBE 2022-2023/2024-2025). Recognized as a Productivity Research Fellow 1C by the Committee on Biophysics, Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neurosciences of CNPq (2020-2024).
Soraya Pelaz
I earned a PhD in development working with Drosophila in Ginés Morata laboratory in Madrid and later moved to flower development using another model system, Arabidopsis, in the Marty Yanofsky laboratory at UCSD, La Jolla, CA. Currently, I am an ICREA Research Professor at CRAG (Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics) located in Barcelona, Spain. I am very interested in the control of flowering and how other plant developmental processes are regulated by my favorite genes, TEMPRANILLO.
Yonghong Peng
Dr. Peng is a Professor of Data Science at the University of Sunderland. He is a Principal Investigator in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology and Medicine, and Principal Data Scientist working on Big Data Integration, Data Mining and Computational Intelligence. Dr. Peng's Data Science and BioMedical informatics (DS & BMI) research group focuses on development of innovative data analytics approaches to enable systematical analysis of biological data, medical images, and healthcare data and to gain new knowledge and insights from the integrative analytics of diverse data sources.
Eduardo Macedo Penna
Dr. Eduardo Macedo Penna has a Phd in sports sciences and is a Full Professor at the Universidade Federal do Pará.
His research agenda includes psychophysiological regulation of exercise and human performance.
Eli N. Perencevich
Professor of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Director, Center for Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research & Evaluation (CADRE), Iowa City VA Healthcare System. Primary research areas: infection prevention, multi-drug resistant bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus
Francesca Peressotti
FP is Full Professor at the Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione (DPSS), University of Padova, Italy. She was Director of the PhD Course in Psychological Sciences, at the University of Padova from 2013 to 2017. From 2010 to 2013 she was Coordinator of the PhD program in Cognitive Sciences of the PhD Course in Psychological Sciences. From 2018 to 2020 she has been elected as member of the Executive Committee of the Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP). She was elected member of the Scientific Committee of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology (2013-2016), and elected member of the Executive Committee of the Experimental Psychology Section of AIP (2008-2013). She acted as a PI in several research projects funded by the University of Padua, the Italian Ministry for the Scientific Research and the National Science Fundation (US).
FP’s research is aimed at investigating the functional architecture of the language system and it is primarily based on data coming from behavioral and electrophysiological measures, comparing the performance of different individuals, such as, e.g., adults, children, bilinguals, deaf people, signers. In a general sense, the approach used is to look at the language system taking into account experimental data coming from different domains focusing on the interactions between the language system and other cognitive functions, such as spatial attention, visual short memory, executive functions, emotions.
Tomas Perez-Acle
Biologist, PhD in Biotechnology. Director of the Centro BASAL Ciencia & Vida. Head Researcher of the Computational Biology Lab (dLab) at Fundacion Ciencia & Vida, Santiago, Chile. Research Professor at Facultad de Ingeniería y Tecnología, Universidad San Sebastián.
Napoleón Pérez-Farinós
Dr. Napoleón Pérez-Farinós MD PhD, is a Professor at the Universidad de Málaga.
He is also Specialist In Preventive Medicine and Public Health and Master in Public Health.
Dr. Pérez-Farinós has worked as an Epidemiologist with communicable and non-communicable diseases, and recently as an expert in cardiovascular diseases prevention and childhood obesity prevention.
Jara Pérez-Jiménez
Researcher at the Institute of Food Science and Technology and Nutrition (ICTAN-CSIC), Madrid, Spain. Co-author of more than 70 papers published in JCR journals and book chapters in international editions. Member of the Editorial Board of Food Reserch International. Former member of the Committee of Experts in Human Nutrition, French Agency for Food Safety (ANSES).