Section Editors

A-B

Ishag Adam

Unaizah College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Qassim University
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Sections: Cardiovascular science and medicine - Hypertension; Obstetrics and gynecology; Endocrinology - Diabetes and obesity

Christof Aegerter

Universitat Zurich
Switzerland

Sections: Biophysics

Shah Md Atiqul Haq

Department of Sociology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet
Bangladesh

Sections: Sociology; Demography; Human geography

Vipul Bansal

orcid.org/0000-0002-3354-4317

Ian Potter NanoBioSensing Facility, NanoBiotechnology Research Laboratory, and RMIT University
Australia

Sections: Biotechnology - Bioengineering

Baruch Barzel

orcid.org/0000-0001-8862-4384

Bar-Ilan University
Israel

Sections: Physics and astronomy - Multidisciplinary, Mathematics - Applied mathematics, Biophysics

Emanuele Bobbio

Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Sweden

Sections: Cardiovascular science and medicine - Arrhythmias and cardiac electrophysiology, Cardiovascular science and medicine - Heart failure and cardiomyopathies, Cardiovascular science and medicine - Interventional cardiology and cardiovascular surgery

Luisa N. Borrell

City University of New York
United States

Sections: Public health and epidemiology - Biostatistics and methods, Public health and epidemiology - Chronic diseases

Justin Brown

Pennington Biomedical research Center
United States

Sections: Cancer – Epidemiology and clinical medicine, Endocrinology – Diabetes and obesity, Public health and epidemiology – Chronic diseases

Vladimir Brusic

University of Nottingham
China

Sections: Computational biology - General

Emmanuel A. Burdmann

orcid.org/0000-0002-7644-8579

University of São Paulo Medical School
Brazil

Sections: Nephrology

C-F

Ning Cai

 orcid.org/0000-0003-3836-4822

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
China

Sections: Computer and information sciences - Artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science, Engineering and technology - Systems science and computational engineering

Jie Chen

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China

Sections: Urban Studies

Johnson Chun-Sing Cheung

orcid.org/0000-0002-7837-282X

The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Sections: Sociology

Mark Cookson

National Institutes of Health
United States

Sections: Neuroscience - Neurodegenerative diseases and dementia, Cell biology - General, Genetics - Mutation; Genetics of disease; Heredity

Lee Cooper

orcid.org/0000-0001-7734-8388

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
United States

Sections: Biogeochemistry

Nils Cordes

orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-629X

Technische Universitat Dresden
Germany

Sections: Cell biology - Cytoskeleton; Cell adhesion; Cell motility, Cancer - Basic cancer research, Cancer - General

Angelo Brandelli Costa

orcid.org/0000-0002-0742-8152

Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil

Sections: Psychology - Social psychology, Public health and epidemiology - Health behavior, health promotion and society, Mental health and psychiatry - General

Emanuele Dalla Torre

Bar-Ilan University
Israel

Sections: Physics and astronomy - Quantum physics, Physics and astronomy - Multidisciplinary, Physics and astronomy - Atomic and molecular physics

Bryan C. Daniels

 orcid.org/0000-0002-5870-1059

Arizona State University
United States

Sections: Physics and astronomy - Multidisciplinary, Computational biology - General, Complexity and networks

Michelle R. Dawson

Brown University
United States

Sections: Developmental biology - Cell differentiation; Cell fate determination; Stem cells; Embryology; Fertilization, Cancer - Basic cancer research, Biotechnology - General

Gemma Elizabeth Derrick

 orcid.org/0000-0001-5386-8653

University of Bistol
United Kingdom

Sections: Research assessment

Oliver Eickelberg

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
United States

Sections: Pulmonology

Isil Ergin

Ege University
Turkey

Sections: Public health and epidemiology - Health behavior, health promotion and society

Michael Ernst-Heinrich Fassbender

orcid.org/0000-0003-3784-0276

Los Alamos National Laboratory
United States

Sections: Chemistry - Analytical and inorganic chemistry, Physics and astronomy - Multidisciplinary

Anthony R. Fiorillo

orcid.org/0000-0002-8998-0820

Southern Methodist University, Institute for the Study of Earth and Man
United States

Sections: Paleontology - Vertebrate

Martin Frasch

Univerity of Washington
United States

Sections: Neurocience – Neural systems and circuits, Neuroscience – Neural development and plasticity

G-K

Sabrina Gaito

orcid.org/0000-0003-3779-2809

University of Milan
Italy

Sections: Computer and Information Sciences – Complexity and Networks

Ferenc Gallyas Jr.

orcid.org/0000-0002-1906-4333

University of Pécs Medical School
Hungary

Sections: Cell biology - Cell signalling; Signal transduction

Maria Gańczak

Uniwersytet Zielonogorski
Poland

Sections: Infectious diseases - Epidemiology and prevention, Public health and epidemiology - Occupational health

Markus Geßlein

Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversitat - Nurnberg
Germany

Sections: Surgery – Orthopedic, Sport and exercise science, Rheumatology

Stephen D. Ginsberg

orcid.org/0000-0002-1797-4288

Nathan Kline Institute and New York University
United States

Sections: Genetics - Gene function, Genetics - Mutation; Genetics of disease; Heredity, Neuroscience - Cellular and molecular

Lise Lotte Gluud 

orcid.org/0000-0002-9462-4468

Hvidovre Hospital
Denmark

Sections: Research assessment

Quanquan Gu

University of California, Los Angeles
United States

Sections: Computer and information sciences - Artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science

Roee Gutman

Brown University
United States

Sections: Mathematics – Statistics

Kenji Hashimoto

Chiba University
Japan

Sections: Mental health and psychiatry - Biological, Pharmacology, Neuroscience - Neurobiology of disease; Neuropathology

Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; and Sharda University, Greater Noida
India

Sections: Infectious diseases - Tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases

Haralampos Hatzikirou

orcid.org/0000-0002-1270-7885

Khalifa University
United Arab Emirates

Sections: Mathematical and Theoretical Biology

Berthold Heinze

orcid.org/0000-0002-7571-9138

Austrian Federal Research Centre for Forests BFW
Austria

Sections: Genetics - Population genetics; Evolutionary genetics, Plant biology, Agriculture - Plants

Jörg D. Hoheisel

Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
Germany

Sections: Synthetic biology

Jayani Jayawardhana

University of Kentucky
United States

Sections: Economics - Health economics, Health care - Health policy, Health care - Health services research

Hai Jin

Huazhong University of Science and Technology
China

Sections: Computer and Information Science

Christopher James Johnson

USGS National Wildlife Health Center
United States

Sections: Virology, Biochemistry - Proteins; Enzymes, Veterinary science

Andrew H. Kemp

Swansea University 
United Kingdom

Sections: Psychology - Cognitive psychology

Anthony Pak-Hin Kong

orcid.org/0000-0002-6211-0358

University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Sections: Linguistics

Tendesayi Kufa

National Institute for Communicable Diseases
South Africa

Sections: Infectious diseases - Epidemiology and prevention, Infectious diseases - HIV, Infectious diseases - Sexually transmitted diseases

L-M

Jung Eun Lee

Seoul National University
Republic of Korea

Sections: Public health and epidemiology - Environmental health, Nutrition, Cancer - General

Alfred S. Lewin

orcid.org/0000-0002-4192-9727

University of Florida
United States

Sections: Ophthalmology, Cell biology - Cell membranes; Vesicles; Cellular structures and organelles, Genetics - Gene expression; Epigenetics; Alternative splicing; RNA splicing; Molecular genetics

Qihong Liu

University of Oklahoma
United States

Sections: Economics – General, Management Science

Vanesa Magar

Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada
Mexico

Sections: Earth sciences - Atmospheric sciences, Earth sciences - Oceanography

Pirjo Mäkelä

University of Helsinki
Finland

Sections: Agriculture - Plants

Mercedes Susan Mandell

University of Colorado
United States

Sections: Critical care and emergency medicine

Richard Mankin

USDA ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology
United States

Sections: Agriculture - Plants, Biophysics, Entomology

Limin Mao

orcid.org/0000-0003-0995-5789

Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney
Australia

Sections: Health care - Health services research, Infectious diseases - HIV, Public health and epidemiology - Health behavior, health promotion and society

David McCormick

IIT Research Institute
United States

Sections: Cancer - Basic cancer research, Toxicology

Adina Merenlender

University of California, Berkeley
United States

Sections: Conservation science

Claudia Mettke-Hoffmann

orcid.org/0000-0003-3874-5035

Liverpool John Moores University
United Kingdom

Sections: Ecology - Animals

José M. Morán

 orcid.org/0000-0002-5538-182X

Sections: Nursing, Biochemistry - General, Mathematics - Statistics

Laurent Mourot

University of Franche-Comté
France

Sections: Sport and exercise science

Partha Mukhopadhyay

National Institutes of Health
United States

Sections: Cardiovascular science and medicine - Basic cardiovascular research, Molecular biology, Biotechnology - General

N-S

Tomoki Nakamura

Mie University Graduate School of Medicine
Japan

Sections: Cancer - Biomarkers, molecular diagnostics and screening, Cancer - Surgical oncology and imaging, Surgery - Orthopedic

Hiranya K. Nath

Sam Houston State University
United States

Sections: Economics - General, Economics - Econometrics

Olivier Neyrolles

orcid.org/0000-0003-0047-5885

Institute of Pharmacology & Structural Biology, CNRS at University of Toulouse
France

Sections: Infectious diseases - Tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases, Microbiology - Host-pathogen interactions, Microbiology - Bacteriology

Ju Lee Oei

Royal Hospital for Women and the University of New South Wales
Australia

Sections: Pediatrics

Ilke Onur

Flinders University
Australia

Sections: Economics – General; Economics – Health economics; Economics – Econometrics

Joseph P.R.O. Orgel

orcid.org/0000-0002-1050-9391

Illinois Institute of Technology
United States

Sections: Biochemistry - Proteins; Enzymes, Structural biology

Alexander Panfilov

Universiteit Gent
Belgium

Sections: Cardiovascular science and medicine - Basic cardiovascular research

Wayne A. Phillips

orcid.org/0000-0002-7961-638X

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Australia

Sections: Cancer - Basic cancer research, Cell biology - Cell signalling; Signal transduction, Gastroenterology and hepatology

José M. Riascos

 orcid.org/0000-0001-8631-8877

Universidad de Antioquia
Colombia

Sections: Marine biology, Ecology - Animals, Ecology - Urban ecology

Cheryl S. Rosenfeld

 orcid.org/0000-0002-4137-3933

University of Missouri Columbia
United States

Sections: Endocrinology - General

Diego Rybski

 orcid.org/0000-0001-6125-7705

Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER)
Germany

Sections: Urban studies

Enrico Scalas

University of Sussex
United Kingdom

Sections: Mathematics – Statistics, Mathematics – Multidisciplinary, Mathematics – Applied Mathematics

Luis Schang

orcid.org/0000-0002-5789-8590

University of Alberta
Canada

Sections: Infectious diseases - Viral diseases

Albert Schriefer

Universidade Federal da Bahia (Federal University of Bahia)
Brazil

Sections: Infectious diseases - Parasitological diseases, Genetics - Population genetics; Evolutionary genetics, Molecular biology

Guy J-P. Schumann

orcid.org/0000-0003-0968-7198

University of Bristol and Remote Sensing Solutions Inc.
United Kingdom and United States

Sections: Earth sciences - Multidisciplinary, Earth sciences - Physical geography

V. Prasad Shastri

orcid.org/0000-0001-5125-9678

University of Freiburg
Germany

Sections: Biotechnology – Bioengineering

Debjani Sihi

Emory University
United States

Sections: Soil science, Earth sciences - Climate change, Environmental microbiology

Udai P. Singh

 orcid.org/0000-0002-7048-4325

University of Tennessee Health Science Center
United States

Sections: Immunology - General, Immunology - Immunity

Neil R. Smalheiser

orcid.org/0000-0003-1079-3406

University of Illinois-Chicago
United States

Sections: Bioinformatics, Computer and information sciences - Artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science, Library and information science

Michael B. Steinborn

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
United States

Sections: Psychology - Cognitive psychology, Psychology - General, Psychology - Social psychology

Liou Sun

University of Alabama at Birmingham
United States

Sections: Nutrition, Endocrinology – Epidemiology, Neuroscience – Neurodegenerative diseases and dementia

T-Z

Hirokazu Taniguchi

Shimonoseki City University
Japan

Sections: Psychology - Social psychology, Psychology - Clinical psychology, Psychology - Developmental psychology

Christian Taube

Essen University Hospital
Germany

Sections: Immunology - General

Kok Keng Tee

University of Malaya
Malaysia

Sections: Infectious diseases - HIV, Microbiology - Virology, Evolutionary biology - Evolutionary genetics; Genomics

Joseph Telfair

Georgia Southern University
United States

Sections: Public health and epidemiology - Health policies, systems and management, Health care - Health services research, Public health and epidemiology - Health behavior, health promotion and society

Praveen Thumbikat

orcid.org/0000-0002-5454-4172

Northwestern University
United States

Sections: Immunology - Autoimmune diseases

Rochelle Tractenberg

orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-2119

Georgetown University
United States

Sections: Public health and epidemiology - Biostatistics and methods, Education research, Mathematics - Statistics

J Trinidad Segovia

orcid.org/0000-0002-5017-2615

University of Almeria
Spain

Sections: Economics - Financial, Economics - General, Economics - Econometrics

Edison Iglesias de Oliveira Vidal

orcid.org/0000-0002-1573-4678

São Paulo State University (UNESP)
Brazil

Sections: Geriatrics, Palliative care, Public health and epidemiology - General

 I-Jong Wang

National Taiwan University Hospital 
Taiwan

Sections: Biomechanics, Ophthalmology

Shaojian Wang

Sun Yat-sen University
China

Sections: Urban Studies

Gayle E. Woloschak

Northwestern University
United States

Sections: Biotechnology - General

Shin Yamazaki

orcid.org/0000-0002-6691-1531

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
United States

Sections: Chronobiology, Neuroscience - Behavioral and cognitive

Rubeena Zakar

University of the Punjab
Pakistan

Sections: Public health and epidemiology - General, Public health and epidemiology - Global health, Public health and epidemiology - Health behavior, health promotion and society

Jie V Zhao

University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Sections: Cardiovascular science and medicine - Epidemiology and prevention, Nutrition, Endocrinology - Epidemiology

Mingming Zhou

University of Macau
Macau

Sections: Education research, Psychology - General, Psychology - Cognitive psychology