Editorial Board
Editor profiles
Back to topSamuel Brod, Senior Editor
Prior to joining the BMC series Samuel was an Associate Editor at Scientific Reports, where he helped drive better practice in data presentation at the journal, and worked to improve systematic review and meta-analysis reporting. Before that, he was a Science Manager at the NC3Rs, working to improve the quality and reproducibility of in-vivo research. He holds an MSc in Science Communication from the University of West England and a PhD in inflammatory immunology from Queen Mary University of London. Samuel is a strong advocate for open science and better inter-disciplinary engagement across all research fields.
Maria Hodges, Executive Editor
Dr Maria Hodges manages a team of in-house editors on the BMC Series journals, including the editors for BMC Cancer, BMC Genomics and BMC Plant Biology. She joined the BMC Series in July 2018. Previously, Maria was the Scientific Publications Manager for Cancer Research UK, managing the British Journal of Cancer. Before this, Maria was Acting Editor for Genome Medicine and an Editor for Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. Maria has a PhD in biochemistry from Cancer Research UK.
Senior Editorial Board Members
Professor Vassya Bankova
Vassya Bankova graduated the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy in Sofia as a chemical engineer majoring in Organic Synthesis. Her career developed at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Center of Phytochemistry (IOCCP), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. PhD and DSc theses in Chemistry of Natural Products. At present full professor at IOCCP. Research interests: new biologically active compounds from medicinal plants, bee products, development of modern methods for analysis of complex extracts of natural products, H-index 47. She is a corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and a member of Academia Europaea.
Professor Livia Simon Sarkadi
Livia Simon Sarkadi is professor at the Department of Nutrition, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Budapest, Hungary since 2012. She graduated as a Chemical Engineer at the Technical University of Budapest (BUTE), and began her career at the BUTE. She received an Dr Univ. degree in Biochemistry (1986), a CSc degree in Food Chemistry (1991), a Dr habil. (1999), and a DSc degree in Chemical Science (2010). Her research focuses on study of food quality and food safety with particular emphasis on amino acids, and biogenic amines. In addition to her teaching and research activities, she is the President of the Hungarian Chemical Society (2011-); Chair of the Food Science Committee of HAS (2019-); She has served as Chair of the Food Chemistry Division of the European Chemical Societies (EuChemS) between 2009-2014, and as a Member of the EuChemS Executive Board (2014-2021). She received the IUPAC 2015 Distinguished Women in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Awards.
Professor Rui Yang
Dr. Rui Yang received her Ph.D. in polymer materials at Tsinghua University in 2005. She has worked in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University since 1996 and became a professor of polymer materials in 2021. Her research interests include: 1) Aging behavior, mechanism and stability evaluation of polymer materials and lifetime prediction; 2) phase change material (PCM) and composites for thermal energy storage and 3) Structure-property relationship of polymer materials. She has published two textbooks - Analytical Methods for Polymer Characterization (CRC Press) and Advanced Instrumental Analysis of Polymers (Tsinghua University Press). She is the Board member of Youth Council, China Society of Materials Research, the Board member of Materials Division, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, and the Secretary-general of the Professional Committee on Polymer Materials.
Professor Peng Zhan
Peng Zhan is a full professor in the Institute of Medicinal Chemistry, Shandong University. His research interests involve the discovery of novel anti-viral (HIV, HBV, influenza, coronavirus, etc.), anti-gout, and anti-cancer agents based on rational drug design and combinatorial chemistry approaches.
Professor Vania Zuin Zeidler
Vania Zuin Zeidler is a professor at the Federal University of São Carlos (Brazil) and visiting professor at the University of York (UK) and Leuphana University (Lüneburg, Germany). Her background is Green and Sustainable Analytical Chemistry, and Green and Sustainable Chemistry Education. Recent distinctions include the 52o and 57o Brazilian Literary Jabuti Awards, the title of Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of York (UK) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), President of the Brazilian Humboldt alumni Association, the IUPAC CHEMRAWN VII Prize for Atmospheric and Green Chemistry and the ACS-CEI Award for Incorporating Sustainability in Universities, sponsored by the American Chemical Society’s Committee on Environmental Improvement (CEI).
Editorial board list
Back to topSenior Editor
Samuel Brod, BMC, UK
Executive Editor
Maria Hodges, BMC, UK
Senior Editorial Board Members
Vassya Bankova, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria
Avishek Paul, University of Glasgow, UK
Livia Simon Sarkadi, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Hungary
Alison Willows, University of Brighton, UK
Rui Yang, Tsinghua University, China
Peng Zhan, Shandong University, China
Vania Zuin, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Editorial Board Members
Mohamed Jawed Ahsan, Maharishi Arvind College of Pharmacy, India
Mehran Alavi, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
Chunjiang An, Concordia University, Canada
Murali Banavoth, University of Hyderabad, India
James Barker, Kingston University, UK
Emilio Benfenati, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche, Italy
Asim Bhaumik, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India
Łukasz Binkowski, Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland
Edy Brito, Embrapa Tropical Agroindustry, Brazil
Syed Nasir Abbas Bukhari, Jouf University, Saudi Arabia
Domenica Capasso, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Rosaria Ciriminna, CNR-ISMN, Italy
Esmail Doustkhah, Koç University Tüpraş Energy Center (KUTEM), Turkey
Marwa El-Hussieny, National Research Centre, Egypt
Marcelo Enrique Conti, University of Rome, Italy
Abdulilah Ece, Biruni University, Turkey
Abbas Farmany, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Jeremy Frey, University of Southampton, UK
Francisco Cristóbal García Cirujano, University of Valencia, Spain
Jahan Bakhsh Ghasemi, University of Tehran, Iran
Mohd. Zaheen Hassan, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia
Tony James, University of Bath, UK
Massoud Kaykhaii, Politechnika Gdańska, Poland
Joshua Kibet, Egerton University, Kenya
Jeongho Kim, Inha University, Korea
Dan Li, Shanghai Institute of Technology, China
Jianhua Liu, Jilin University, China
Xinyong Liu, Shandong University, China
Chongning Lv, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, China
Fotouh Mansour, Tanta University, Egypt
Carlo Matera, University of Milan, Italy
Jun Mei, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Kevin McAdam, McAdam Scientific Ltd., United Kingdom
Desai Nisheeth, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, India
Van-Huy Nguyen, Lac Hong University, Vietnam
Akeem Adeyemi Oladipo, Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey
Matthew Palframan, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Georgios Pampalakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Srinath Pashikanti, Idaho State University, USA
Milena Popova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Xuhong Qian, East China University of Science and Technology, China
Azza Rageh, Assiut University, Egypt
Thilagavathi Ramasamy, Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, India
Supradip Saha, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India
Essa M. Saied, Suey Canal University, Egypt
Rahman Shah Zaib Saleem, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
Mathias Senge, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Alfa Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Indore, India
Svetlana Simova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Renjith Thomas, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
Tung Thanh Tung, PHENIKAA University, Vietnam
Vinod Vashistha, GLA University, Mathura, India
Patricia Vazquez, La Plata National University, Argentina
Manos Vlasiou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Jian Wu, Guizhou University, China
Jianxi Xiao, Lanzhou University, China
Minghao Xu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Balal Yousaf, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Ru-Jia Yu, Nanjing University, China
Liangxiao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Tao Zhang, Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Haotian Zheng, North Carolina State University, USA
Teng Zhou, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Germany
Editorial Advisors
Michael Birkett, Rothamsted Research, UK
Richard Brereton, University of Bristol, UK
Michael J. Bucknum, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Argentina
Willem De Grip, Leiden University, Netherlands
Jonathan Essex, University of Southampton, UK
Yang Gan, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge, UK
Evamarie Hey-Hawkins, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Jonathan Hirst, University of Nottingham, UK
Keith Hutchenson, DuPont, USA
Mehmet Karakus, Pamukkale University, Turkey
Sang Ouk Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Todd Marder, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany
Yvonne Martin, Martin Consulting, USA
Charles Mbakaya, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya
Anthony Meijer, University of Sheffield, UK
Charles Okujeni, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Elizabeth Ostler, University of Brighton, UK
Viktor Safonov, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation
Edward I. Solomon, Stanford University, USA
Ulla Vogel, National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark
In memoriam
Jean-Claude Bradley Founding Editor-in-Chief, and pioneer in open data access.
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