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.
Arkadiusz Piwowar
Arkadiusz Piwowar DSc, PhD, Eng., is an associate professor at the Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland. He received an engineer`s degree in marketing and management in 2005 from the Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Science. At the same University he holds master’s degrees in Agriculture (2007). He was awarded his PhD (2011) and DSc (2018) at Wroclaw University of Economics and Business. Dr. Piwowar has interest in the fields of low-carbon development, energy economics, climate policy. His scientific achievements made include more than 160 scientific publications and 10 popular science publications. He has also prepared expert opinions and reports for business entities. He has reviewed more than 300 manuscripts for more than 50 different journals. He has been Editor or Editorial Board member of many journals and serves on numerous international conferences committees. Arkadiusz Piwowar is a Fellow of the Committee on Economic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the term 2020-2023. Manager and main contractor in several grants.
Sara Platto
Dr. Sara Platto is Associate Professor of Animal Behavior and Welfare within the Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences at Jianghan University
Her research interests include, Marine Mammals, Behavioral Ecology, Mammals, Wildlife Conservation, Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Ecology, Animal Ecology, Animal Behavior, Ethology and Wildlife Management.
Davor Plavec
Davor Plavec, MD, MSc, PhD, is Professor of Occupational Health and Sports Medicine. Born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1962, Prof. Plavec graduated in 1987, and received his master's degree in 1991, and his doctorate in 1999 at the Medical Faculty, University of Zagreb. In 2004 he specialized in occupational medicine, and in 2009 he became the Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Osijek. In 2013 he specialized in sports medicine, and in 2019 became Full Professor within the Faculty of Medicine in Osijek. Prof. Plavec is Lecturer at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zagreb (study in English) and at the Faculty of Dental Medicine and Health in Osijek. Since 2005 he has been working at the Srebrnjak Children's Hospital as an Assistant Director for the quality of health care, and Head of the Research department where his field of work is improving the quality of health care, clinical research, sports medicine, allergy, pulmonology and cardiopulmonary function diagnostics. He is a member of a number of professional societies of the Croatian Medical Association in which he has held or is holding responsible positions for several terms, as well as the European Respiratory Society and the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology. During his scientific and professional work, he has published more than 300 publications, of which more than 110 articles are in peer-reviewed journals with more than 2000 citations.
Michelle Ploughman
Canada Research Chair in Rehabilitation, Neuroplasticity and Brain Recovery, Dr. Ploughman is a recognized expert in neuroplasticity and neurorehabilitation in stroke and multiple sclerosis. Her research focuses on the effects of aerobic exercise, intensive training paradigms and lifestyle habits on the brain challenged by injury, disease and aging. Dr. Ploughman continues to practice as a neurological physiotherapist in St John’s and her Recovery and Performance Laboratory is located in the Rehabilitation Research Unit (RRUNL), L.A. Miller Centre, St. John’s NL, Canada.
Xavier Pochon
Team Leader, Molecular Surveillance, Biosecurity Group, Cawthron Institute, New Zealand.
Associate Professor, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
My research at the Cawthron Institute is highly applied and consist of developing multi-trophic molecular tools for environmental monitoring of marine industries (e.g. aquaculture farms, marine biosecurity in ports and marinas, and deep-sea exploration).
At the University of Auckland, I combine 'real-world' and 'blue-sky' research applications, including; i) investigating functional underpinnings of Symbiodiniaceae in coral reef ecosystems, ii) characterizing microbiomes in aquaculture and natural settings, iii) measuring eDNA and eRNA decay rates in marine invertebrates and vertebrates, iv) studying preferential settlement of marine invasive species associated with marine plastic debris, and v) exploring the diversity and dynamics of open-ocean plankton communities in the Pacific and beyond.
Claudia Pogoreutz
My work broadly focuses on marine host-microbe systems, or ‘holobionts’, and the metabolic interactions that arise from and drive these complex symbiotic associations. I have always been interested in the microbial functions underlying holobiont health, resilience, and ecological adaptation, and how they shape holobiont stress responses. For this, I mainly use the cnidarian-algae symbiosis and associated bacteria as model systems, but have recently also started exploring the community structure, dynamics, and metabolic properties of fish skin microbiomes. My past and current research includes work on the contribution of nitrogen cycling pathways in cnidarian holobiont functioning and symbiotic breakdown, e.g., coral ‘bleaching’, as well as the elucidation of unknown functions of coral bacterial symbionts. For this, my approach has been to combine traditional physiological and culture-dependent techniques with high throughput-, next generation -omics applications, including whole genome and gene amplicon sequencing, transcriptomics, and proteomics. Currently, I am expanding my scope to targeted investigations of symbiotic metabolic interactions as a driver of osmoregulation in cnidarian holobionts employing nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS) along with isotopic profiling metabolomics.
Marylène Poirié
Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Genetics, Nice Sophia Antipolis University (France). Co-Head of the Sophia Agrobiotech Institute (INRA-CNRS-University of Nice Sophia Antipolis). Recipient of the Integrative Biology prize of the French Academy of Sciences (Balachovski prize). Member of the excutive committee of the Signalife Labex. Past member of the excutive committee of the European Doctoral School "Insect Science and Biotechnology".
Tatyana Polenova
Professor of Chemistry at University of Delaware. Editor of the Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance. Member of the American Chemical Society Joint Board Council Committee on Publications. Recipient of the Erasmus Mundus scholarship (2011-2012). Chair-Elect of the 55th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (ENC) Conference.
Beth Polidoro
Beth Polidoro is an Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Marine Conservation, as well as serving as the Deputy Director for the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes at Arizona State University. Her primary research interests are in risk assessment and applied toxicology within the context of marine and freshwater biodiversity conservation, human health, and sustainable development. Dr. Polidoro has a broad background in the marine, chemical and environmental sciences. Before to coming to Arizona State University, she was a senior research associate with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), where she worked with scientists around the globe to quantify the impacts of anthropogenic threats on more than 20,000 marine species, for inclusion on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. She currently works on various marine and freshwater conservation initiatives and both ecological and human health risk assessments in the United States, Latin America, Africa and Oceania.
Renato Polimanti
Dr. Renato Polimanti is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. His scientific interests include Human Genetics, Biological Psychiatry, Computational Biology and Human Evolution.
Katherine S. Pollard
Associate Investigator at Gladstone Institutes and Associate Professor in the Institute for Human Genetics and the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.
Bert Poolman
Professor of Biochemistry & Program director of the Centre for Synthetic Biology. Focus area leader of the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials. Board member of the Netherlands Proteomics Centre. Coordinator of Network for Integrated Cellular Homeostasis. Elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).