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.
Anja Widdig
Present position:
Since 2010 Professor of Behavioral Ecology at the University Leipzig (UL), Bridging Professorship between UL and Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA) Leipzig, Germany.
Postdocs:
-2007-2014 Head of the Jr. Research Group of “Primate Kin Selection” at the MPI EVA, Emmy-Noether Group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
-2006-2007 Guest scientist MPI EVA
-2004-2006 Duke University, NC (USA)
Ph.D.:
1997-2002 Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Joëlle Wiels
Joëlle Wiels received her PhD in Genetics from Université Paris 6-Denis Diderot and then spent two years as a Post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Biochemical Oncology (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) headed by Professor Hakomori. She then moved back to France where she studied the role of glycosphingolipids in both normal and tumoral B lymphocytes. Since 1991, her main research interests include analysis of apoptotic signaling pathways and of resistance to cell death developped by B cell lymphomas. She is currently affiliated at the METSY CNRS Unit located at the Gustave Roussy Institut in Villejuif (France)
Janet Wiles
Professor of Complex and Intelligent Systems at the University of Queensland.
Siouxsie Wiles
Dr Siouxsie Wiles MNZM studied medical microbiology at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a PhD in microbiology at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Oxford and Edinburgh Napier University. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Auckland. There she heads up the Bioluminescent Superbugs Lab where she and her team make nasty bacteria glow in the dark to find new antibiotics and to better understand how bacteria become more infectious. Siouxsie has won numerous awards for both her science and her science communication. In 2017 she published her first book, ‘Antibiotic resistance: the end of modern medicine?’ and in 2019 was appointed a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to microbiology and science communication. When the pandemic arrived, Siouxsie joined forces with Spinoff cartoonist Toby Morris to make the science of COVID-19 clear and understandable. Their award-winning graphics have been translated into multiple languages and adapted by various governments and organisations around the world. Siouxsie was the Supreme Winner of the Stuff Westpac 2020 Women of Influence Award, named by the BBC as one of their 100 influential women of 2020, and in 2021 was named Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year.
Peter Wilf
After my eclectic and non-geological 20s, I discovered geology and then paleobotany and have never looked back. Most of my thesis research (Penn Geology) was done in residence at the Smithsonian, on megafloral and paleoclimatic change across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in southern Wyoming. During this time and in an ensuing Smithsonian postdoc, I began developing two major subsequent themes of my research: the fossil history of plant-insect associations and the remarkable riches of Patagonian fossil floras. I spent three years at Michigan, 1999-2002, as a Michigan Fellow and happily joined the Penn State Geosciences faculty in 2002, where I have been developing these and several other wonderful research projects with my students and colleagues all over the world.
Claus O Wilke
Professor and Department Chair, Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin. Received his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Bochum, Germany, in 1999. Postdoc at Caltech, 2000-2005.
Diego Veras Wilke
Professor of physiology and pharmacology at Federal University of Ceara. Research focuses on a combination of marine natural product discovery with molecular and cellular biology to identify new anticancer leads.
Louise Willemen
Department of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geo-Information and Earth Observation, of University of Twente, the Netherlands.PhD in spatial modelling from Wageningen University, the Netherlands.Worked before @ Bioversity International in Colombia, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Italy, Cornell University in the USA.Current roles: Coordinating Lead Author of the Land Degradation and Restoration assessment of IPBES, Chair of the Steering Committee of Ecosystem Services Partnership, and editorial work for several journals. Ecosystem services and rural development researcher. Current research includes RS-based ecosystem service mapping and monitoring, impact assessments of integrated restoration, and prioritization of investments in land degradation neutrality actions.
Charles H Williams
Dr. Charles (Chuck) Williams is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, and is a basic scientist whose research centers on chemical genetics of vertebrate development and early drug discovery. His research functions at the intersection of developmental biology, chemical biology, computational biology, and personalized medicine. Dr. Williams' work includes innovative chemical biologic approaches to study embryonic development as well as developing resources to facilitate academic drug discovery.
His research has made contributions to the emerging field of chemical genetics through the discovery of chemical modulators of several key developmental pathways, including the Eggmanone, a small molecule inhibitor of the Hedgehog pathway. This work revealed novel biological insights and new therapeutic opportunities for targeting cancers downstream of the Smoothened receptor which handles the clinical problem of acquired smoothened resistance in medulloblastoma. In addition, Dr. Williams edited a book covering the latest methods and protocols in chemical biology. He has recently co-founded a start-up around a new technology for targeting glioblastoma.
Dr. Williams received a PhD in cell and developmental biology from Vanderbilt University, where he also received his BS in Molecular and Cellular Biology.
John Leicester Williams
John Leicester Williams, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee. Research interests include: biomechanical engineering, mechanobiology of growth plate cartilage, orthopaedic biomechanics, biomechanics of total joint replacements and of oral implants, knee joint kinematics and kinetics, mechanical properties of bone and cartilage. Academic Editor of PLoS ONE.
Darren W Williams
Group Leader and Reader at King's College London. My research focuses on the mechanisms that control the assembly of neural networks. I have explored how network components are generated from distinct neural precursors, how axons and dendrites are guided to their targets and the way dendrites undergo large-scale pruning. Although my lab uses Drosophila, my experience with zebrafish and teaching human neuroanatomy to medical students broadly influences the questions I ask.
Katherine L Wilson
Katherine Wilson grew up in the Pacific Northwest (Tacoma, Washington). She earned her BS in microbiology at the University of Washington (Seattle) and her PhD in genetics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and began exploring nuclear structure as a postdoctoral fellow at UCSD. Now a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, she and her lab study the functional biochemistry and regulation of nuclear lamina proteins (emerin, lamins, BAF) to understand laminopathy disease.