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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José E Pérez-Ortín

José E Pérez-Ortín is full Professor at the University of València since 2008. He leads a research group on Yeast Funtional Genomics

Fabiana Perocchi

Fabiana Perocchi is an Emmy Noether Group Leader at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and Munich University. She trained as a postdoc with Vamsi Mootha at MGH and Harvard Medical School. She has a PhD in Functional Genomics from EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) and Heidelberg University, with Prof. Lars Steinmetz. Her research seeks to understand the signaling cascades that regulate mitochondrial metabolism and calcium homeostasis and their dysfunctions in neurodegenerative diseases.

Alvise Perosa

Research interests include: Green organic syntheses using environmentally friendly solvents, reagents, catalysts, and feedstocks.

Member of the Advisory Board of the journal "Green Chemistry" (Royal Society of Chemistry, UK) and the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal "ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering" (American Chemical Society, USA).

Mihaela Pertea

Assistant Professor in the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University

B. Matija Peterlin

Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF. Finland Distinguished Professor, Virology, U. Helsinki, Finland. Visiting Professor, Insitute of Biochemistry, U. Ljubljana, Slovenia. Member, IJS Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Also member, Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences. Received various awards including the Alexander von Humboldt Prize, and the Ambassador for Science of the Republic of Slovenia.

Gjalt-Jorn Ygram Peters

I am a behavior change professional on the cross-section between behavior change science (psychology), methodology and statistics and technology (ICT).

Main interests include: behavior change, statistics, methodology, online research methodology and intervention development.

Kevin Petrie

I obtained my PhD from the Institute of Cancer Research in London spent a further 10 years there as a postdoctoral fellow and Staff Scientist. I am currently a Lecturer in Molecular Biology at the University of Stirling in Scotland. My principal research interest is translational oncology, with a focus on epigenetics.

Leonardo Alexandre Peyré-Tartaruga

I grew up in the south Brazil, alternating times between Montevideo (Uruguay) and Porto Alegre (Brazil). Crossing the Pampas several times made me deeply interested in nature and biology. After, I joined my passion for sports and movement to the area of biology. Last year, after 17 years as Assistent and Associate Professor in the UFRGS (Brazil), I moved to Pavia, and currently I am Professor UniPV, Italy. I am interested in minima, maxima and others optima in terrestrial locomotion & Sports Sciences. The pathological gait is a very interesting area to apply basic concepts of human locomotion. I am very proud to study and principally, to change life in the Parkinson projects. Also, and most important, the study on mechanical determinants of locomotion performance and economy is my passion.

Ulrich Pfeffer

Ulrich Pfeffer - born on January 23rd, 1958 in Berlin, Fed. Rep of Germany
Education:
1976-1983 Study of Biology, Free University Berlin
1983 Master degree, Free University Berlin
1987 PhD Free University Berlin, Prof. Dr. E-R. Lochmann
2013 Habilitation full professor in Molecular Biology and General Pathology, Ministry of Education, University and Research

Scientific work:
2013-today Senior Staff Scientist, Molecular Pathology, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Head: Franco Fais
2010-2013 Director, Division of Integrated Molecular Pathology, National Cancer Research Institute (IST)
2004-2010 Section Chief, IST, Functional Genomics.
1999-2004 Senior Staff Scientist, IST, Laboratory Molecular Oncology, Head: Dr. A. Albini
1993-1999 Staff scientist, tenure; IST, Genoa, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Head: Prof. Giorgio Vidali (from 1996-1999: Dr. G. Levi)
1988-1993 Postdoctoral fellow, National Cancer Research Institute (IST), Genoa, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Head: Prof. G. Vidali
1985-1987 Research fellow , same lab
1984 Research fellow, University of Genoa

Teaching:
2017- today Contract professor for bioinformatics, Biotechnology Bachelor course, University of Genoa
2006-2015 Contract professor for bioinformatics, Biotechnology Master course, University of Genoa
2006-2013 Member of the Board, PhD School in Biotechnology, Lecturer in bioinformatics, University of Genoa

Worradorn Phairuang

Dr. Worradorn Phairuang is a Lecturer at Chiang Mai University, Thailand. His main research focuses on the chemical and physical characteristics of airborne nanoparticles. His interests cover all the natural and anthropogenic sources, particularly biomass burning including forest fire and agricultural residue burning. He is very interested in emission inventory from biomass burning in Thailand and Asian countries.

Brett S Phinney

I am currently the director of the UC Davis Genome Center Proteomics Core and I am on the Executive board of the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (www.abrf.org). I obtained my Ph D. in Biology studying viral protein structure using mass spectrometry and did a Post-doc with the noted Mass Spectrometrist Jack Watson at Michigan State University before founding the Proteomics Core there and becoming the co-director of the Michigan State Proteome Consortium