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.
Paripok Phitsuwan
Dr. Paripok Phitsuwan is Assistant Professor in the Division of Biochemical Technology at King Mongkut's Univeristy of Technology, Thonburi.
Dr. Phitsuwan's research focuses on biomass conversion and processing, particularly lignin valorization. He is interested in carbohydrate and lignin active enzymes and their applications in biotechnology-relevant industries and environmental remediation.
Mauro M.M. Picardo
Director of the Cutaneous Physiopathology Laboratory and Metabolomic Center San Gallicano Dermatological Institute in Rome
Chairman Integrated Center of Metabolomic Research
Member of Italian Commission for Dietetic and Nutrition at the Minister of Health (2006- present)
Member of National Health Council (2007-2010)
Member of the Psocare National Commission supported by the Italian Agency on Drugs (AIFA)
Past President of the European Society for Dermatological Research
Past President of the International Federation of Pigment Cell Societies (IFPCS)
Past President of the European Society of Pigment Cell Research (ESPCR)
Board member of the European Society for Dermatological Research (ESDR)
Member of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV)
Member of the Italian Society of Dermatology and Venereology (SIDEMAST)
Member of the Italian Association of Dermatolgists (ADOI)
Coordinator of the Vitiligo European Task Force
Associate Editor of Pigment Cell Research
Editorial board of PeerJ, Experimental Dermatology, Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
Referee ad hoc for many dermatological journals such as Journal of Investigative Dermatology, British Journal of Dermatology, Journal of EADV, Experimental dermatology, and non dermatological journals such as FASEB J, BBA, J Chromatography, Biochem J, PlOS ONE, Free radical in Biology and Medicine
Author of more than 250 publications and of more than 30 chapters in different books
Stephen R Piccolo
He earned a B.S. degree in Management Information Systems from BYU in 2001 and then worked as a software engineer for five years at Intel Corporation in Chandler, Arizona. In 2011, he received a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Utah (advised by Dr. Lewis J. Frey). From 2011-2014, he was postdoctoral researcher jointly at the University of Utah (Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, advised by Dr. Andrea H. Bild) and Boston University School of Medicine (Division of Computational Biomedicine, advised by Dr. W. Evan Johnson). He teaches classes in biology and bioinformatics.
The Piccolo lab's overarching goal is to use advanced computational approaches to act on large and complex data sets in an interdisciplinary approach. As such, the lab integrates knowledge and techniques across biology, computer science, medicine, and statistics using "dry lab biology'' to take advantage of massive, publicly available databases.
Brett E Pickett
Dr. Brett Pickett is an Assistant Professor in the Microbiology and Molecular Biology Department at Brigham Young University. He completed his B.S degree in Microbiology from BYU in 2005, his Ph.D. training in Microbiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and his postdoctoral training in Pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He then obtained additional experience in industry, and at the J. Craig Venter Institute, where he led investigative studies in viral comparative genomics and the human transcriptional response during viral infection. His research develops data mining methods, applies machine learning techniques, and use advanced statistical workflows to better understand how human cells respond during infection.
Marcio R Pie
Associate Professor of Zoology, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil.
Ilse S Pienaar
Senior Lecturer in Cellular Pathology at Northumbria University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Honorary Lecturer in Neuroscience at Imperial College London in London, with both positions held in the United Kingdom. Dr. Pienaar's has held Research Fellowships from the International Brain Research Organisation and Imperial College London.
Roberta Pierattelli
Roberta Pierattelli graduated in Chemistry at the University of Florence and received a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1995. After a postdoctoral year at the University of Southampton, she was appointed at the University of Florence. Since 2017 she is Full Professor of Chemistry. Her research interests are mainly related to applications of NMR spectroscopy to the study of the structure and function of proteins and their interactions.
Stephanie E Pierce
Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
Stephanie E. Pierce is a trained paleontologist, anatomist, functional morphologist and evolutionary biomechanist. She completed a BSc degree in paleontology at the University of Alberta, Canada, which included an honors thesis on the anatomy and evolution of hadrosaurian dinosaurs. Directly following this, Stephanie pursued a MSc degree by research in Systematics and Evolution at the University of Alberta studying the anatomy and evolutionary relationships of extinct marine lizards. Her love of vertebrate evolution brought her to the University of Bristol, UK where she embarked on a PhD degree which focused on assessing the interplay between skull shape variation and biomechanical performance in extant and extinct crocodiles. Since finishing her studies, Stephanie has focused her main efforts on examining and reconstructing the 3D anatomy and locomotion potential of early tetrapods (Devonian and Carboniferous) to test hypotheses of limbed movement across the water-land transition.
Stuart L Pimm
Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. His international honours include the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2010), the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006), and the International Cosmos Prize 2019.
Graciela Piñeiro
Professor at Departamento de Evolución de Cuencas, Facultad de Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay. Investigator Level 1, Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación (ANII). Investigator Gº 4 of the Programa de Desarrollo de las Ciencias Básicas in Biological and in Geological Fields. Responsible for several research projects on Late Paleozoic communities, including comparative anatomy, systematics, paleobiology, taphonomy, biostratigraphy, paleobiogeography and paleoenvironments.
Luisa A.M. Pinto
Luisa Pinto is Assistant Researcher at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), University of Minho in Portugal, and Invited Assistant Professor at the School of Health Sciences, University of Minho. She is also manager of a spin-off enterprise “BNML – Behavioural & Molecular Lab” of the ICVS. Luisa is Associate Member of EpiGeneSys, a FP7 European Community-funded Network of Excellence; Editor of the journal Advances in Biology.
Douglas Pires
Douglas Pires is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Health in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. Previously, he was a group leader and researcher in public health at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation/Brazil. He was also a postdoctoral researcher fellow at the University of Cambridge and University of Melbourne. He received a PhD in Bioinformatics from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/Brazil and a BSc in Computer Science, both with highest honours, by the same university. His research interests include: Computational Biology, Translational Bioinformtaics and Machine Learning.