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.
David Rodríguez-Sanz
Dr. David Rodríguez-Sanz is a professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
His main research interest is focused in the field of foot and ankle, muscle, tendon, biomechanics, sports.
Helen M Roe
Dr Helen Roe is a Reader in Physical Geography in the School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast. She received her PhD (Quaternary palaeoecology) from the University of Cambridge.
Her research interests centre around the reconstruction of late Quaternary environmental change in wetlands and coastal environments. Major research foci include (i) applications of benthic protozoans (e.g. testate amoebae and foraminifera) and diatoms in biomonitoring and restoration; (ii) the use of palaeoecological, palaeolimnological and geochemical approaches for understanding long-term climate and sea-level change; iii) use of quantitative, multi-proxy techniques to aid palaeoenvironmental reconstruction.
She is an Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and a Co-Director of the Queen's University Centre of Canadian Studies.
Jeroen Roelofs
Jeroen Roelofs received his Ph.D. (Cum Laude) from the University of Groningen, where he studied cGMP signalling and chemotaxis of Dictyostelium Discoideum. During his postdoctoral work in the Lab of Dan Finley at Harvard Medical School he studied the ubiquitin-proteasome system and discovered a role of several molecular chaperones in the assembly of the proteasome in S.Cerevisiae and human tissue culture cells. Since 2009 he runs his own lab at Kansas State University, where his lab studies proteasome assembly and regulation at the molecular and cellular level in yeast and mammalian tissue culture systems. Recent interests include quality control of assembly and the degradation of proteasomes through autophagy.
Luiz F. W. Roesch
Dr. Luiz F. W. Roesch is an Associate Professor within the Department of Microbiology and Cell Science at the University of Florida.
Dr. Roesch is microbial ecologist working with biomarkers of health and disease in human samples and of homeostasis or perturbation in environmental models. His research focuses on testing fundamental hypotheses in microbial ecology, especially in the Human Microbiome.
Dr. Roesch's primary expertise is in Next Generation Sequencing, Bioinformatics, and 16S rRNA surveys.
Michael A. Rogawski
Professor, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine; Pharmacology and Toxicology Graduate Group; Center for Neuroscience; University of California, Davis. Past president, American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics. Academic editor of 9 journals. Co-founder of Epilepsy Currents, the journal of the American Epilepsy Society.
I received a B.A. (biophysics) from Amherst College, and M.D. and Ph.D. (pharmacology) degrees from Yale University. I was a resident, fellow and assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. For over 20 years, I was a senior investigator and chief of the Epilepsy Research Section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. My research interests involve ion channel pharmacology and neurological therapeutics, including antiepileptic drugs and other epilepsy treatment approaches.
Lesley J Rogers
Lesley J. Rogers is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and Emeritus Professor at the University of New England, Australia. After being awarded a First-Class Honours degree by the University of Adelaide, she studied at Harvard University in USA and then the University of Sussex, UK. She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy and later a Doctor of Science from the University of Sussex, UK. After returning to Australia, she has held academic positions at Monash University, Australian National University and the University of New England, serving as Professor and Head of Physiology for several years.
Her publications, numbering over 500, include 19 books and over 280 scientific papers and book chapters, mainly on brain and behaviour. In the 1970s her discovery of lateralized behaviour in chicks was one of three initial findings that established the field of brain lateralization in non-human animals, now a very active field of research. Initially, her research was concerned with the development of lateralization in the chick, as a model species, and the importance of light stimulation before hatching on the development of visual asymmetry, which she investigated at the neural and behavioural levels. She then compared lateralized behaviour in different species spanning from bees to primates and, more recently, has focussed on the advantages of brain asymmetry and the link between social behaviour and population-level asymmetry. She also edits the journal Laterality.
Torbjørn Rognes
Torbjørn Rognes is the Head of the Biomedical Informatics Research Group at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo, and a research scientist at the Department of Microbiology at Oslo University Hospital, Norway. He obtained a MSc in computer science in 1994, a PhD in bioinformatics in 2001 and a professorship in 2010. His main interest is in development of algorithms and tools for sequence analysis, and has recently worked mostly with metagenomics and metabarcoding. He is a co-author of the VSEARCH, Swarm and SWIPE tools.
Don C Rojas
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
Chair, Department of Psychology
The main focus of my research endeavors is sensory and motor processing in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and childhood onset schizophrenia. A major theme in my work has been the identification of heritable biomarkers in autism, using non-invasive neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques in first-degree relatives. Recent work has focused on auditory temporal processing and gamma-band timing deficits as well as magnetic resonance spectroscopy of amino acid neurotransmitter systems associated with gamma-band oscillations. I am also affiliated with the Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Laboratory and Brain Imaging Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and have expertise in several brain-imaging methods, primarily MEG, but also including structural MRI, fMRI and MR spectroscopy. Current research at CSU involves EEG and functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to examine the coupling of electrophysiology and hemodynamics in sensory and motor systems.
Lee A Rollins
I am broadly interested in the molecular ecology of invasive species, conservation genetics, avian behaviour, the genetics of social systems and how genes behave at a population level. Much of my work has focused on the role of dispersal in range expansions and the use of genetic analyses to understand contemporary population dynamics including rates of exchange between genetically separated populations. I am now investigating genes important to dispersal in order to examine the role of genetics in range expansion of invasive species.
Diego Romero
Associate Professor of Microbiology in University of Málaga (Spain). Head of Department of Microbiology and Crop Protection in IHSM-UMA-CSIC. Past Ramon y Cajal Investigator. Postdoctoral training in Harvard Medical School.
Meredith Root-Bernstein
I am an ethnobiologist and interdisciplinary conservation scientist. I have two masters degrees in Zoology (ethology) and Conservation, Biodiversity and Management, and a PhD in Ecology. During my degrees and several post-docs I developed competencies in social sciences methods and human geography and anthropological theory. I have worked in Chile since 2008, developing socio-ecological approaches to conservation, restoration, and rewilding. In addition, I have done fieldwork-based research projects in Denmark, Italy, and Lesotho.
James J Roper
As an ecologist, I am interested in population dynamics of terrestrial vertebrates. To understand these dynamics, I use a combination of field data (usually with birds) and simulations. I am particularly interested in life histories of tropical and subtropical birds.