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.
Heinz-Jürgen Otto Thiel
Head of the Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany; Member of the Leopoldina (German Academy of Sciences); Member of two study groups of ICTV (International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses); Member of Editorial Board for Veterinary Microbiology
Mike Thiv
Keeper of Herbarium Natural History Museum Stuttgart, Head of Botany Dept. Member of several editorial boards.
Jonathan C Thomas
I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Microbial Genomics at Nottingham Trent University and one of the curators of the S. epidermidis MLST database.
Torsten Thomas
Torsten holds a MSc (1996) from the University of Bonn (Germany) and a PhD (2001) from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He has been a Fellow of the American-Australian Association (2005), an ARC PostDoctoral Fellowship (2006-2009), a Senior Lecturer (2009-2012), an Associate Professor (2013-) and an ARC Future Fellow (2015-) at the School of Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences (BABS) and the Centre of Marine Bio-Innovation (CMB) at UNSW. In 2016 he became the Director of the CMB and was appointed Full Professor in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) at UNSW in 2017. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers in the broad area of environmental microbiology and microbial ecology. His current research interest cover the interactions (symbiosis/disease) between bacteria and marine invertebrates and macroalgae, the evolution of microbial populations and communities and the impact of biochar on microbial process in soil.
Cristiane C Thompson
Professor of Genetics of the Institute of Biology of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Our research group focuses mainly on marine microbiology.
Julie D. Thompson
Until 2013, Senior research scientist at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology and University of Strasbourg, France. Currently, senior research scientist in Integrative Bioinformatics and Genomics at the ICube laboratory and University of Strasbourg, France.
Steven John Thompson
I teach at Savannah State University and at University of Maryland Global Campus. Former faculty at Johns Hopkins University, Dartmouth College, UC Davis. I have been teaching college students for over 20 years. My research expertise is in Internet phenomena: access, addiction, agency, control, dependency, governance, and policy; and engineering ethics in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) merging the Internet with physical bodies. I am the Editor for Machine Law, Ethics and Morality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2021); Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society (2017); and, Global Issues and Ethical Considerations in Human Enhancement Technologies (2014).
Fabiano Thompson
Oceanographer and Professor of Marine Biology of the Institute of Biology and SAGE-COPPE of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Our research group focuses mainly on marine microbiology.
Dominic Thorrington
Dr. Dominic Thorrington is Scientific Project Manager at the French healthcare regulator, La Haute Autorité de Santé.
He is an experienced health economist, infectious disease epidemiologist and mathematician, specialising in the modelling of infectious disease outbreaks and evaluating the cost-effectiveness of vaccination strategies.
Mark Tibbett
Professor of Soil Ecology at the University of Reading. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Soil Research.
Research interests include mycorrhiza, plant-soil interactions, terrestrial biogeochemistry and restoration ecology.
Vladimir I. Titorenko
Professor and Concordia University Research Fellow, Biology Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Research interests include molecular and cellular mechanisms of aging and age-related disorders.
Desmond J Tobin
Desmond Tobin is Professor of Dermatological Science, and Director of the UCD Charles Institute of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Ireland. EU. Prior he was Professor of Cell Biology & Director of the Centre for Skin Sciences at University of Bradford. He holds a BSc from the National University of Ireland (Maynooth), a PhD from University of London (St. John’s Institute of Dermatology) and post-doc training from New York University Medical School. Over 25y he has researched in basic and applied skin/hair sciences, with a particular focus on the biology of human melanocytes/ pigmentation and hair growth disorders incl. with immune basis.
He was the first to identify antibodies to hair follicle-specific antigens in patients with acute alopecia areata, and first to establish melanocytes from human hair follicles in long-term culture. He has identified a self-similarity of the POMC peptide system in human hair follicle pigmentary unit, how pigmentation can be regulated by CRF/POMC peptides (incl. b-endorphin), and more recently by bone morphogenetic proteins. He revealed an unexpected role for filopodia in melanin transfer under influence of myoxin-X & cdc42. Des is a Fellow of Royal College of Pathologists, Fellow of Royal Society of Biology, and Fellow of Institute of Trichologists (Vice-President), and Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Des serves(ed) on several editorial boards, and has published over 200 publications, incl. 3 books. His H-Index is currently 68 (Scopus).