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.
Sau Pinn Woo
Dr Woo received his PhD in Natural History Sciences from Hokkaido University. His interest of study includes systematics, taxonomy, and diversity study of marine invertebrates, focusing on the group Echinoderms. Since 2009, he has been actively uncovering the marine biodiversity and systematics of sea cucumbers across the region.
He is currently serving as a senior lecturer in the Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies (CEMACS), Universiti Sains Malaysia where he is also actively leading several marine biodiversity research in the Southeast Asian region that includes several taxa of marine invertebrate. At the global front, he is a serving in several UN Decade of Ocean Science Program ECOP co-chairs and also an active contributor to the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) programmes. At the same time, he is passionate in creating awareness and education of marine sciences to the society through various educational programmes done in CEMACS with the concept of experiential learning for marine sciences
Susanna A Wood
Susie is a freshwater scientist and molecular ecologist based at the Cawthron Institute in Nelson, New Zealand. Her research is multidisciplinary and integrative, with the overarching goal of improving knowledge on freshwater ecosystems. It spans three broad areas: (i) toxic cyanobacteria dynamics in freshwater systems (both planktonic in lakes and benthic in rivers), (ii) the development and application of molecular techniques to monitor and understand aquatic systems, and (iii) integrating cutting edge techniques with more traditional paleolimnological approaches to guide future lake management and restoration. Wood is the co-programme leader of a project funded in 2017 known as ‘Our lakes’ health: past, present, future’ (www.lakes380.com). The team is obtaining a nationwide overview of health for about 10% of New Zealand’s lakes using paleo-environmental reconstructions. The team is using sediment coring, novel proxy analyses (environmental DNA, high-resolution core scanning), geochronology and mātauranga Māori (indigenous knowledge) to reconstruct water quality and lake health over the past 1000 years and provide a richer understanding of the value of New Zealand’s lakes.
Kerry Woods
Faculty at Bennington College since 1986, ecology and evolution. Research: forest ecology, long-term studies, paleoecology, remote sensing. Ph.D. Cornell Univ (RH Whittaker, PL Marks); post-doctoral, U. Minnesota (MB Davis), UC-Santa Barbara (DB Botkin). Bullard Fellow, Harvard 1998, Center Fellow, NCEAS 2008-9; Prog. Chair ESA 2007; Assoc. Ed. ESA journals, 2001-2011; Assoc. Ed., IAVS journals 2001-pres; Pres. N. Am. Ch. IAVS 2009-2010; Past Chair Professional Ethics Comm. ESA, IAVS.
Patricia C. Wright
Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stony Brook University. Recipient of the Chevalier, Officier et Commandeur de Ordre National National Medal of Honor of Madagascar, from the President of Madagascar. Member of American Philosophical Society, Winner of Indianapolis Prize for Animal Conservation, MacArthur Genius Award, Herrnstein Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Conservation Biology at Stony Brook University.
S. Joseph Wright
Senior Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama. Past President of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation.
Jianguo Wu
Dean's Distinguished Professor of landscape ecology and sustainability science. Current research areas include landscape ecology, urban ecology, and sustainability science. Editor-in-Chief of Landscape Ecology; Elected AAAS Fellow (2007); Distinguished Landscape Ecologist Award from United States Association for Landscape Ecology (2010); Outstanding Scientific Achievements Award from International Association for Landscape Ecology (2011); Elected Fellow of Ecological Society of America (2019).
Zhijin Wu
I develop statistical methodology and software for the analysis of -omics data. I am particularly interested in the regulation of transcription: the molecular mechanism as well as its association with disease.
Jang-Yen J.Y. Wu
Senior Schmidt Fellow and Distinguished Professor, Department of Biomedical Science of Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University. Recipient of Award in Science and Technology of Taiwanese-American Foundation in 2005. Associate Editor of Journal of Biomedical Science.
Joseph C Wu
Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD is Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and Simon H. Stertzer Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Radiology at the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Wu received his MD from Yale University School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine and cardiology at UCLA followed by a PhD in the Dept of Molecular Pharmacology. His clinical interests involve cardiovascular imaging and adult congenital heart disease. His lab works on biological mechanisms of patient-specific and disease-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). The main goals are to (i) understand basic cardiovascular disease mechanisms, (ii) accelerate drug discovery and screening, (iii) develop “clinical trial in a dish” concept, and (iv) implement precision cardiovascular medicine for prevention and treatment of patients. His lab uses a combination of genomics, stem cells, cellular & molecular biology, physiological testing, and molecular imaging technologies to better understand molecular and pathophysiological processes.
Hao Wu
Hao Wu is a patent scientist in an oncology-focused biotechnology company, Exelixis, Inc. She obtained her Ph.D. in molecular biology from Rowan University (previously known as the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) – Stratford Campus). With hands-on knowledge in various aspects of biology, including molecular biology, cell biology, biochemistry, immunology, neuroscience, oncology, Hao has worked on inventions spanning a broad range of technologies, for example, biologics, antibodies, biomarkers, diagnostics, cell therapy, gene therapy, and sequencing.
Rongling Wu
Prof. Rongling Wu is a Distinguished Professor of Public Health Sciences and Statistics at Pennsylvania State Cancer Institute and Director of the Center for Statistical Genetics.
His research interests include; Quantitative Trait Loci, Genes, Growth, Population, Multifactorial Inheritance, Statistical Models, Genome, Populus, Genotype, Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, Phenotype and Chromosome Mapping.
Huiting Wu
Dr. Huiting Wu is a lecturer in the School of Geosciences and Surveying Engineering at China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) in Beijing, China.
Dr. Wu's research focus is on taxonomy, palaeoecology and morphology of brachiopod, mass extinction and biotic recovery. She is also interested in ecology and morphological changes of brachiopod in modern ocean, bivalves and ammonoids.
Dr. Wu is a graduate of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). Between 2016-2017, she was a visiting scholar in Deakin University. Between 2018-2010, she was a post-doctors fellow in the Peking University.