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Biochemistry

Section Lead - Joanna Timmins

• Ross Bathgate
• Antonio Calabrese
• Mark Collins
• Tuan Anh Nguyen
• Dana Reichmann

Bioengineering & Biotechnology

Section Lead - Chao Zhou

• Chien-Yu Chen
• César de la Fuente
• Robert DeLong
• Ken-ichiro Kamei
• Adib Keikhosravi
• Periklis Pantazis
• Yuedong Yang
• Zheng-Jiang Zhu

Biophysics & Structural Biology

Section Lead - Janesh Kumar

• Luciano Abriata
• Manidipa Banerjee
• Alexander Cartagena-Rivera
• Krishnananda Chattopadhyay
• Marco Fritzsche
• Nicholas Kurniawan
• Isabelle Lucet
• Ingrid Span
• Xiaohui "Frank" Zhang

Section Lead - Marina Holz

• Silvia Belluti
• Keith Syson Chan
• Gloryn Chia
• Myron Evans II
• Georgios Giamas
• Ana Rita Grosso
• Toril Holien
• Mythreye Karthikeyan
• Bibekanand Mallick
• Jin-Min Nam
• Derrick Ong
• Shan E Ahmed Raza

Cell & Molecular Biology

Section Lead - Gregory Lavieu

• Giulia Bertolin
• Tiago Dantas
• Natalie Elia
• Pavithra Lakshminarasimhan Chavali
• Patrick Meraldi
• Toshiro Moroishi
• Valeria Naim

Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience

Section Lead - Christian Wozny

• Christoph Anacker
• Thiago Cunha
• Julio C. Hechavarria
• Ibrahim Javed
• Mary Teena Joy
• Ivo Lieberam
• Fereshteh Nugent
• Eliana Scemes
• Asuka Takeishi

Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience

Section Lead - Michel Thiebaut de Schotten

• Sahar Ahmad
• Sahba Besharati
• Christian Beste
• Jacqueline Gottlieb
• Shenbing Kuang
• Alizée Lopez-Persem
• Jessica Peter
• Enzo Tagliazucchi
• Jonathan Touboul
• Marta Vallejo

Ecology & Evolution

Section Lead - Eoin O'Gorman

• Katie Davis
• Wannes Dermauw
• Nicolas Desneux
• Pawel Fedurek
• Borja Figueirido
• Pavel Flegontov
• Linn Hoffmann
• Zuzana Hofmanová
• Richard Holland
• Michelle Lawing
• Quan-Xing Liu
• Luciano Matzkin

Madhava Meegaskumbura

• Hannes Schuler

Genetics & Development

Section Lead - Simona Chera

• Frank Avila
• Hélène Choquet
• Michiaki Hamada
• Rupinder Kaur
• Ani Manichaikul
• Eirini Marouli
• Edwina McGlinn
• John Mulley
• Jun Wei Pek
• Mireya Plass Pórtulas
• Rebecca Richmond
• Debarka Sengupta
• Wee-Wei Tee
• Eirini Trompouki
• Kuangyu Yen

Immunology & Infectious Disease

Section Lead - Si Ming Man

• Jian-Da Lin
• Caroline Goujon
• Joanna Hester
• Katharine Irvine
• Isabela Pedroza-Pacheco
• Harry Taylor
• Lim Theam Soon
• Connie Wong

Microbiology

Section Lead - Sridhar Mani

• Anna Heintz-Buschart
• Haichun Gao
• Nishith Gupta
• Robert Kingsley
• Christopher LaRock
• Sabina Leanti La Rosa
• Ranjana Pathania
• Jonathan Perreault
• Silvio Waschina
• Chris Koon Ho Wong

Physiology & Metabolism

Section Lead - Christopher Hine

• Madhumita Basu
• Aline Bozec
• Jesmond Dalli
• Ashwani Gupta
• Christopher Hine
• Tami Martino
• Martina Rauner
• Gabriela da Silva Xavier
• Daniele Torella

Plant Biology

Section Lead - Shahid Mukhtar

• Hanyang Cai
• Matteo Dell'Acqua
• Jorge Duitama
• José Estevez
• Shahid Mukhtar
• Leena Tripathi
• Marie-Anne Van Sluys
• Xiaoling Xu

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Ross Bathgate, PhD, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Australia

orcid.org/0000-0001-6301-861X Research areas: G protein-coupled receptors, peptides, cell signaling, drug development

Antonio Calabrese, PhD, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

orcid.org/0000-0003-2437-7761 Research areas: Protein biochemistry, structural mass spectrometry, membrane protein biology, protein folding, chaperones, protein aggregation

Mark Collins, PhD, University of Sheffield, UK

orcid.org/0000-0002-7656-4975 Research areas: Protein biochemistry, proteomics, membrane protein biology, mass spectrometry, post-translational modifications, neuroproteomics

Albert Lee, PhD, Macquarie University, Australia

orcid.org/0000-0001-5156-0567 Research areas: protein chemistry, cell biology, proteostasis, proteomics, ubiquitination, phosphorylation, protein aggregation

Tuan Anh Nguyen, PhD, HKUST, Hong Kong

orcid.org/0000-0001-7793-2699 Research areas: Biochemistry, enzymology, bioinformatics, RNA-binding proteins, microRNA biogenesis

Dana Reichmann, PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Min Zhuang, PhD, ShanghaiTech University, China

orcid.org/0000-0001-6215-5807 Research areas: Protein biochemistry, protein engineering, ubiquitination, organelle biology

Joanna Timmins, PhD, Structural Biology Institute, France

orcid.org/0000-0002-9066-9095 Research areas: DNA repair, nucleoid organisation, anticancer drug resistance, radiation resistance

Huan Bao, PhD, Scripps Research Institute, USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-4301-4627 Research areas: Membrane Biology, Lipid Nanoparticles, Gene delivery, Vaccines, Antibodies, Biophysics, Biochemistry

Chien-Yu Chen, PhD, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

César de la Fuente, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-2005-5629 Research areas: Synthetic biology, microbiology, computational biology

Robert DeLong, PhD, Landmark Bio, USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-9568-7081 Research areas: Nanobiochemistry, nanobiotechnology, nanomedicine, cancer nanotechnology

Ngan Huang, PhD, Stanford University, USA

orcid.org/0000-0003-2298-6790 Research areas: Biomedical engineering, cardiovascular & musculoskeletal diseases, stem cells

Ken-ichiro Kamei, PhD, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

orcid.org/0000-0003-2948-3264 Research areas: Stem cell engineering, Nanobiotechnology, microfluidics, cell-materials interactions

Adib Keikhosravi, PhD, National Cancer Institute, USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-7901-1276 Research areas: Computational Biology, Digital Pathology, Computer Vision, Machine/Deep Learning, Microscopy,

Mo Li, PhD, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

orcid.org/0000-0003-0827-8907 Research areas: Stem cell, genome editing, long-read sequencing, genetic disease, pluripotency

Periklis Pantazis, PhD, Imperial College London, UK

orcid.org/0000-0002-8367-9332 Research areas: Photoconvertible fluorescent proteins, nanoprobes, sensors and live optical precision imaging

Yuedong Yang, PhD, Sun yet-sen University, China

orcid.org/0000-0002-6782-2813 Research areas: Protein structure prediction, drug design, multi-omics data analysis

Chao Zhou, PhD, Washington University in St Louis, USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-8679-3413 Research areas: Optical microscopy, label-free imaging, optogenetic pacing, developmental biology, cancer, clinical translation

Zheng-Jiang Zhu, PhD, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China

orcid.org/0000-0002-3272-3567 Research areas: Metabolomics, lipidomics, mass spectrometry, bioinformatics, clinical and biological applications of metabolomics

Luciano Abriata, PhD, EPFL, Switzerland

Manidipa Banerjee, PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

orcid.org/ 0000-0001-6202-5965 Research areas: Virus disassembly, role of viroporins in viral entry and egress, antiviral development, virus-based nanoparticles

Alexander Cartagena-Rivera, PhD, NIH, USA

orcid.org/0000-0001-6227-2499 Research areas: Mechanobiology, biophysics, atomic force microscopy, cellular mechanics, tissue mechanics

Krishnananda Chattopadhyay, PhD, CSIR-IICB, India

orcid.org/0000-0002-1449-8909 Research areas: Biophysics, structural biology, fluorescence spectroscopy

Marco Fritzsche, PhD, Rosalind Franklin Institute and University of Oxford, UK

orcid.org/0000-0002-8712-7471 Research areas: Immunology, mechanobiology, biophysics, microscopy

Janesh Kumar, PhD, CSIR-CCMB, India

orcid.org/0000-0003-0767-3788 Research areas: Membrane proteins, glutamate receptor ion channels, cryo-electron microscopy, x-ray crystallography, structural biology

Nicholas Kurniawan, PhD, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

orcid.org/0000-0003-0473-0222 Research areas: Cell biophysics, cell-materials interactions, mechanobiology, tissue regeneration

Isabelle Lucet, PhD,  Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia

orcid.org/0000-0002-8563-8753 Research areas: Kinases and Pseudokinases controlled signalling pathways, molecular structure and function, scaffolds, interactome, drug discovery.

Yun Luo, PhD, Western University of Health Sciences, USA

orcid.org/0000-0003-3581-754X Research areas: Computational Biophysics, Ion Channels, Drug Design, Protein-Small Molecule/Lipid Interaction, Protein Allostery and Conformatoinal Dynamics, Lipid Bilayer, Mechanosensitive Piezo ion channels, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Enhanced Sampling Methodology

Ingrid Span, PhD, Heinrich Heine University, Germany

orcid.org/0000-0002-2892-4825 Research areas: Structural biology, metalloenzymes

X. Frank Zhang, PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Lei Zheng, PhD, University of Texas Health Science Center, USA

Silvia Belluti, PhD, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Keith Syson Chan, PhD, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas, USA

orcid.org/0000-0003-1670-8508 Research areas: fibroblasts and collagen signaling; immunogenic cell death; myeloid cell heterogeneity

Gloryn Chia, PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore

orcid.org/0000-0002-2099-719X Research areas: Cancer immunology, Neoantigen Vaccines, Immunotherapy, Tumor microenvironment

Myron Evans II, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-7678-5815 Research areas: epigenetics, brain tumors, metastasis, targeted therapeutics

Georgios Giamas, PhD, University of Sussex, UK

orcid.org/0000-0002-4417-2707 Research areas: Cancer, cell signaling, proteomics

Ana Rita Grosso, PhD, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Portugal

orcid.org/0000-0001-6974-4209 Research areas: computational biology; multi-omics data analysis; gene expression; cancer

Toril Holien, PhD, Norwegian Univ of Science and Technology, Norway

orcid.org/0000-0002-2051-5824 Research areas: Signal transduction, apoptosis, cancer, hematology, oncogenes, drug development

Marina Holz, PhD, New York Medical College, USA

orcid.org/0000-0001-5030-7973 Research areas: Cancer, rare diseases, signal transduction

Ruby Huang, MD, PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore

orcid.org/0000-0001-6376-3185

Research areas: Cancer, epithelial-mesenthymal transition (EMT), metastasis

Mythreye Karthikeyan, PhD, University of South Carolina, USA

orcid.org/0000-0001-5478-0098 Research areas: Cellular signaling, cell-matrix interactions, stress adaptation mechanisms and targeted therapeutics

Bibekanand Mallick, PhD, National Institute of Techonlogy Rourkela, India

orcid.org/0000-0003-4311-0720 Research areas: RNAi, cancer biology, omics and molecular biology

Jin-Min Nam, PhD, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

orcid.org/0000-0001-6917-3688 Research areas: cell-cell communication, cancer invasion and metastasis, tumor microenvironment, vesicle trafficking, lysosomes, radiation biology

Derrick Ong, PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore

orcid.org/0000-0001-7529-3790 Research areas: Glioblastoma, Cancer stem cells, Cancer epigenetics, Aging brain

Derrick is the President’s Assistant Professor at the Department of Physiology, National University of Singapore (NUS). He obtained his Bachelor in Science (First class Honors) and Masters in Biology at NUS, and PhD (Chemical Biology) at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), USA, where he trained under Dr Jeffery Kelly, a pioneer in the field of proteostasis. For his postdoctoral training, Derrick was mentored by Dr Ronald DePinho, a world expert in aging and cancer, first at Dana Farber Cancer Institute/ Harvard Medical School, and then at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (UT MDACC), USA. His main research interest lies in the area of glioma stem cell biology and cancer epigenetics. Derrick has also received a number of awards, including the Skaggs-Oxford Scholarship (TSRI/Oxford University), Odyssey Fellowship (UT MDACC), President’s Assistant Professorship (NUS), Early Career Research Award (NUS) and the highly competitive National Research Foundation Fellowship (class of 2017). Lab webpage

Shan E Ahmed Raza, PhD, University of Warwick, UK

orcid.org/0000-0002-1097-1738 Research areas: Computational Pathology, Multiplexed imaging, Deep Learning

Soona Shin, PhD, University of Cincinnati, USA

orcid.org/0000-0001-5696-9505 Research areas: Liver cancer, liver cell biology, mouse molecular genetics, disease modeling

Soona Shin, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) and the Department of Surgery at the University of Cincinnati. She received her Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. During her research at the University of Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral researcher and an instructor, she made significant strides in the field of liver biology, uncovering novel insights into the biology of facultative postnatal hepatic progenitor cells. Since establishing her independent laboratory at CCHMC, her research has focused on the pathogenic role of hepatic progenitor cells in liver disease, paracrine cell-to-cell communication, and mechanisms underlying the development of liver cancer in children and adults, including conventional hepatocellular carcinoma and fibrolamellar carcinoma. Her lab uses a variety of molecular genetic approaches in mice and in vitro models to identify novel targets for prevention and treatment of chronic liver disease and liver cancer. Lab webpage  

Giulia Bertolin, PhD, Institute of Genetics and Development of Rennes, France

Tiago Dantas, PhD, University of Porto, Portugal

orcid.org/0000-0002-0120-4895 Research areas: Neurobiology, microtubule cytoskeleton-associated processes, ciliogenesis

Natalie Elia, PhD, Ben Gurion University, Israel

orcid.org/0000-0002-2537-6173 Research areas: Cell biology, ESCRT pathway, microscopy techniques

Pavithra Lakshminarasimhan Chavali, PhD, SIR Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

orcid.org/0000-0002-7525-5230 Research areas: Neurodevelopment, Cancer, Stem cells, Organoids

Gregory Lavieu, PhD, Université de Paris, France 

orcid.org/0000-0001-9852-4977 Research areas: Cell biology, membrane trafficking, extracellular vesicles, autophagy

Yuting Ma, PhD, Suzhou Institute of Systems Medicine, China

orcid.org/0000-0001-6267-1852 Research areas: Cancer immunology, stress response, tumor microenvironment, Immunotherapy

Patrick Meraldi, PhD, University of Geneva, Switzerland

orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-8756 Research areas: mitosis, centrosomes, microtubule dynamics, kinetochores, mitotic spindle, chromosome segregation

Toshiro Moroishi, PhD, Kumamoto University, Japan

orcid.org/0000-0001-6419-3882 Research areas: Cell biology, cell signaling, metabolism, immunology, cancer

Valeria Naim, PhD, Gustave Roussy European Cancer Centre, France

orcid.org/0000-0002-2149-8712 Research areas: DNA replication, recombination, repair; chromosome fragile sites; mitosis; chromosome instability syndromes; cancer

Elah Pick, PhD, University of Haifa, Israel

orcid.org/0000-0002-6591-2217 Research areas: Cell biology, protein biochemistry, proteolysis, membrane traffic, post-translational modification, S. cerevisiae

Liming Sun, PhD, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, China

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0136-5605 Research areas: Programmed cell death, necroptosis, inflammation, post-injury tissue regeneration, chemotherapeutics-induced cell death

Katie Davis, PhD, University of York, UK

orcid.org/0000-0002-9235-7853 Research areas: Paleobiology, macroecology & evolution

Wannes Dermauw, PhD, Flanders Institute of Agricultural, Fisheries, and Food Research, Belgium 

orcid.org/0000-0003-4612-8969 Research areas: insecticide resistance, arthropod-plant interactions, horizontal gene transfer, CRISPR-Cas9

Nicolas Desneux, PhD, INRAE, France

orcid.org/0000-0002-8171-3154 Research areas: Ecology, ecosystem services, biological control, ecotoxicology, community ecology, integrated pest management, invasive species, sublethal effects of pesticides

Linn Hoffmann, PhD, University of Otago, New Zealand

orcid.org/0000-0003-0242-4686 Research areas: Marine phytoplankton eco-physiology, ocean acidification, trace metals

Pawel Fedurek, PhD, University of Stirling, UK

orcid.org/0000-0002-6902-708X Research areas: Animal behaviour, Animal communication, Animal conservation, Human-animal interactions, Non-human primates

Borja Figueirido, PhD, University of Malaga, Spain

orcid.org/0000-0003-2542-3977 Research areas: Ecomorphology, Biomechanics, Palaeontology, Vertebrates

Pavel Flegontov, PhD, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

orcid.org/0000-0001-9759-4981 Research areas: archaeogenetics, population genetics

Zuzana Hofmanová, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

orcid.org/0000-0003-1336-4455 Research areas: ancient DNA, population genetics, bioinformatics

Richard Holland, PhD, Bangor University, UK

orcid.org/0000-0003-4495-8061 Research areas: Animal behaviour, animal cognition, ecology, sensory biology, sensory ecology

Michelle Lawing, PhD, Texas A&M University, USA

orcid.org/0000-0003-4041-6177 Research areas: Climate change biology, biogeography, spatial ecology, phylogenetics, paleontology

Shouli Li, PhD, Lanzhou University, China

orcid.org/0000-0001-8536-8194 Research areas: Plant ecology, population ecology, quantitative ecology, disease ecology

Dr. Li received her PhD in Plant Ecology & Biodiversity from Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She then moved to Finland (University of Turku) and United States (the Pennsylvania State University) for her postdoctoral training. In 2019, she moved back to China to establish her own research group at Lanzhou University. She is currently working on the effects of climate change on plant demography and biodiversity dynamics on Tibetan Plateau. She is an elected committee member and the secretary general of China Grassland Ecology Society. Lab webpage

Quan-Xing Liu, PhD, East China Normal University, China

orcid.org/0000-0002-8602-0154 Research areas: Theoretical ecology, behavioral self-organization, marine ecology

Luciano Matzkin, PhD, University of Arizona, USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-3580-9171 Research areas: Evolutionary biology, genetics/genomics of adaptation and speciation

orcid.org/0000-0002-4599-6724 Research Areas: Adaptive radiation, Diversification, Amphibia, Herpetology, Ichthyology, Cavefish, Vertebrates, Pathogens, Microbiomes, Eco-evolutionary genetics, Molecular systematics, Phylogeography, Conservation genetics, Climate change, Biodiversity conservation

A Sri Lankan Evolutionary Biologist and Ecologist, Madhava Meegaskumbura, obtained his Ph.D. in Biology from Boston University USA. His research led to the discovery and documentation of a radiation of nearly 100 species of tree frogs from Sri Lanka. He was a Ziff Environmental Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) and Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) at Harvard, studying correlates of extinctions in amphibians. He then joined the Department of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology at the University of Peradeniya, his home country, as a Professor. He has described more than 50 species of frogs, freshwater fishes, and a small mammal, with contributions to higher-order taxon classification. He is a Co-Chair for the Amphibian Specialist Group Sri Lanka (ASG/IUCN/SSC). Two species, a freshwater fish (Schistura madhavai) and a fairy orchid (Oberonia meegaskumburae), both endemic to Sri Lanka, are named after him. He currently serves as the Professor and P.I of the Eco-Evo-Devo laboratory group at Guangxi University, China, where he works on various aspects of amphibian and freshwater fish radiations using eco-evolutionary genetics-based methods. Lab webpage

Eoin O'Gorman, PhD, University of Essex, UK

orcid.org/0000-0003-4507-5690 Research areas: community ecology, food webs, biodiversity, stability, ecosystem functioning, experimental ecology, climate change

Hannes Schuler, PhD, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

orcid.org/0000-0001-8307-9831 Research areas: Invasive species; Endosymbionts, Wolbachia; Insect Vectors; Biological control; Integrated Pest Management

Frank Avila, PhD, University of Antioquia, Colombia

orcid.org/0000-0002-7278-0646 Research areas: Reproductive biology, seminal fluid protein biology, sperm storage, sperm competition

Simona Chera, PhD, University of Bergen, Norway

orcid.org/0000-0001-6310-3486 Research areas: Mouse genetics, pancreatic islet biology, cellular plasticity, cell fate, development, regeneration

The main focus throughout her career has been the characterization of the cellular processes and molecular cues regulating the balance between tissue regeneration and homeostasis. Currently, her research is directed at how cell death features govern the type of regenerative strategy employed by a biological system. By coupling classical and newly generated models of cell loss with genetic cell tracing, timed conditional gene expression and omics assays (transcriptomics, proteomics, scRNAseq), her lab investigates the dynamic molecular fingerprint of pancreatic islet cells decay and regeneration, with focus on self-renewal and global regulators of cell identity maintenance processes. Lab webpage

Hélène Choquet, PhD, Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, USA

orcid.org/0000-0001-9839-8667 Research areas: Human genetics, complex traits and disorders, genome-wide association studies, whole-genome sequencing, genetic instrumental variable studies, admixture studies and fine-mapping, tools for post-GWAS annotation and functional interpretation.

Qiao Fan, PhD, Duke-NUS, Singapore

orcid.org/0000-0002-2762-8346 Research areas: Human whole-genome genetics/genomics study, Statistic genetics, Genetic epidemiology, Machine learning, Fine-mapping.

Michiaki Hamada, PhD, Waseda University, Japan

orcid.org/0000-0001-9466-1034 Research areas: bioinformatics, computational biology, machine learning, genomics, RNA biology, epigenetics, drug discovery

Pei Hao, PhD, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, China

orcid.org/0000-0002-1498-7059 Research areas: Functional genomics and metagenomics; RNA editing; viral pathogen evolution; big (omics) data analytics

Kaoru Ito, PhD, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan

orcid.org/0000-0003-1843-773X Research areas: Cardiovascular Medicine, Genetics and Genomics, Biostatistics, Machine Learning, Multi-Omics Data Analysis

Rupinder Kaur, PhD, Pennsylvania State University, USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-2132-8107 Research areas: Host-symbiont interactions, Reproductive cell biology, Gametogenesis, Embryogenesis, Sperm chromatin biology, Epigenetics

Ani Manichaikul, PhD, University of Virginia, USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-5998-795X Research areas: Statistical Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology, Multi-omics analysis, Multi-ancestry and admixed populations

Eirini Marouli, PhD, Queen Mary University of London, UK

orcid.org/0000-0001-6179-1609 Research areas: Mendelian randomisation, thyroid function and cancer, machine learning, disease prediction

Edwina McGlinn, PhD, Monash University, Australia

orcid.org/0000-0002-1829-986X Research areas: Developmental biology, hox genes, embryonic patterning, mouse genetics, neuromesodermal progenitor

John Mulley, PhD, Bangor University, UK

orcid.org/0000-0002-1537-7316 Research areas: Genetics, genomics, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, evo-devo

Jun Wei Pek, PhD, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore

orcid.org/0000-0001-6089-6900 Research areas: Germline, RNA, stem cells, Drosophila, regulation of gene expression

Rebecca Richmond, PhD, University of Bristol, UK

orcid.org/0000-0003-0574-5071 Research areas: Genetic epidemiology, molecular epidemiology, Mendelian randomization, cancer, reproductive health, sleep

Debarka Sengupta, PhD, IIIT-Delhi, India

orcid.org/0000-0002-6353-5411 Research areas: Single cell genomics, computational biology, machine learning, big data

Wee-Wei Tee, PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore

orcid.org/0000-0003-4952-6567 Research areas: Epigenetics, transcription, stem cells, cancer, cell fate plasticity

Eirini Trompouki, PhD, Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging in Nice, France

orcid.org/0000-0002-7242-8810 Research areas: Hematopoietic stem cells, regeneration, development, innate immune signalling, transcription factors

Kuangyu Yen, PhD, IHCAMS, China

orcid.org/0000-0001-9579-7291 Research areas: Early hematopoiesis,bioinformatics,transcription regulation. 

Jian-Da Lin, PhD, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

orcid.org/0000-0003-3697-4766 Research areas: Systems Immunology, Immune Profiling, Gut-Heart Axis, Microbiome

Caroline Goujon, PhD, IRIM, CNRS, Montpellier University, France

orcid.org/0000-0001-8571-1108 Research areas: Interferon, antiviral restriction, HIV-1, influenza A virus, SARS-CoV-2, innate immunity, signalling, genetic screens, CRISPR/Cas9

Joanna Hester, PhD, University of Oxford, UK

orcid.org/0000-0002-7466-3849 Research areas: Immunoregulation, tolerance, regulatory T cells, cellular therapy

Katharine Irvine, PhD, Mater Research Institute, Australia

orcid.org/0000-0002-6716-1605 Research areas: innate immunity, monocytes, macrophages, bacterial infection, liver, fibrosis, metabolism, fatty liver disease, cirrhosis

Emily Lee, PhD, NCATS, USA

Guideng Li, PhD, Suzhou Institute of Systems Medicine, China

orcid.org/0000-0003-0840-7262 Research areas: Tumor microenvironment, T-cell antigen discovery, cancer immunology

Shitao Li, PhD, Tulane University, USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-1398-8519 Research areas: innate immunity, virology, virus-host interactions, NF-kB, interferon

Si Ming Man, PhD, Australian National University, Australia

orcid.org/0000-0002-5079-2857 Research areas: Microbiology, innate immunity, chronic disease

Isabela Pedroza-Pacheco, PhD, University of Oxford, UK

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4921-7940 Research areas: Immuno-oncology, Infectious diseases, Systems immunology, Vaccines.

Harry Taylor, PhD, SUNY Upstate Medical Universty in Syracuse, USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-5045-2748 Research areas: HIV-1 replication, viral restriction factors, immunometabolism, innate immunity, monocytes

Lim Theam Soon, PhD, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

orcid.org/0000-0002-0656-3045 Research areas: Antibody phage display, antibody gene usage, diagnostics, immunotherapy, molecular biology

Connie Wong, PhD, Monash University, Australia

orcid.org/0000-0002-9020-1847 Research areas: Stroke, inflammation, neuroimmunology, innate immunity

Anna Heintz-Buschart, PhD, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

orcid.org/0000-0002-9780-1933 Research areas: Microbial metagenomics, multi-omics integration, microbial ecology

Haichun Gao, PhD, Zheijang University, China

orcid.org/0000-0002-2647-6563 Research areas: transformation of nitrogen and sulfur species, stress response, cytochrome c proteins, iron homeostasis, electron transport, energy metabolism and transduction, bioenergy.

Nishith Gupta, PhD, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India

orcid.org/0000-0003-1452-5126 Research areas: Intracellular parasitism, parasite metabolism & signaling, optogenetics in pathogens

Robert Kingsley, PhD, Quadram Institute Bioscience, UK

orcid.org/0000-0002-0194-6485 Research areas: Microbial genomics, Host-pathogen interactions, Phage biology, Microbial evolution, AMR

Christopher LaRock, PhD, Emory University, USA

orcid.org/0000-0003-3035-5331 Research areas: Host-Pathogen Interaction; Bacterial Pathogenesis; Virulence Factor; Inflammasome; Streptococcus

Sridhar Mani, PhD, The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA

orcid.org/0000-0003-4132-6157 Research areas: Host-microbiome relationships, orphan nuclear receptors, inflammation, cancer

Sabina Leanti La Rosa, PhD, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway

orcid.org/ 0000-0003-3527-8101 Research areas: gut microbiota, microbial metagenomics, diet-microbe interactions, dietary fiber degradation, prebiotics, carbohydrate active enzymes, holo-omics

Wendy Mok, PhD, University of Connecticut Health Center, USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-6638-2959 Research areas: Antibiotic resistance, persistence, and tolerance; microbial genetics; bacterial stress response; phenotypic heterogeneity

Ranjana Pathania, PhD, IIT Roorkee, India

orcid.org/0000-0002-7965-8176 Research areas: Antibiotic resistance, Antibacterial Drug Discovery, Bacterial chemical genetics, RNA chaperones and sRNAs, Acinetobacter baumannii, Post-transcriptional regulation in bacteria, ESKAPE pathogens

Jonathan Perreault, PhD, National Institute of Scientific Research, Canada

orcid.org/0000-0003-4726-6319 Research areas: bacterial ncRNAs, RNA comparative genomics, biosensors, synthetic biology

Silvio Waschina, PhD, Kiel University, Germany

orcid.org/0000-0002-6290-3593 Research areas: Bioinformatics, genome-scale metabolic models, metagenomics, metabolomics, microbiology, systems biology

Chris Koon Ho Wong, PhD, University of Macau, Macau SAR of China

orcid.org/0000-0002-9264-5118 Research areas: Gene regulation, Transcription regulation, Chromatin biology, Fungal biology, physiology and metabolism

Christoph Anacker, PhD, Columbia University, USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-9880-6760 Research areas: Stress Vulnerability, Cognition, Anxiety, Neural Circuits, Development

Thiago Cunha, PhD, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

orcid.org/0000-0003-1084-0065 Research areas: Neurobiology of pain, neuroinflammation

Julio C. Hechavarria, PhD, Goethe University, Germany

orcid.org/0000-0001-9277-2339 Research areas: vocal communication, neuroethology, neural oscillations, sound production, auditory processing, bats, behavior

Ibrahim Javed, PhD, University of South Australia, Australia

orcid.org/0000-0003-1101-5614 Research areas: Amyloids, proteostasis, nanomedicine, Alzheimers's disease, Parkinson's disease.

Mary Teena Joy, PhD, The Jackson Laboratory, USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-3120-2022 Research areas: Stroke, learning, neuroplasticity, motor circuits, molecular mechanisms, motor behaviors

Ivo Lieberam, PhD, King's College London, UK

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Alex Nord, PhD, University of California, Davis, USA

orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-7514 Research areas: Genetics and Genomics, Neuroscience, Development

Fereshteh Nugent, PhD, Uniformed Services University, USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-8840-6923 Research areas: Synaptic neuroscience, cellular neuroscience, neural circuits, Severe early life stress, mild traumatic brain injury, synaptic transmission, synaptic plasticity, brain reward circuits, behavioral pharmacology, epigenetics

Eliana Scemes, PhD, New York Medical College, USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-6650-3976 Research areas: Neuroscience, neuron-glia interactions, gap junctions (connexins and pannexins), purinergic signaling.

Asuka Takeishi, PhD, RIKEN in Wako, Japan

orcid.org/0000-0003-2485-867X Research areas: Genetics, Neuroscience, Molecular biology, Behavior, Calcium imaging

Christian Wozny, PhD, MSH Medical School Hamburg, Germany, UK

orcid.org/0000-0003-4220-2033 Research areas: Cellular and molecular neuroscience, Alzheimer’s disease, depression, synaptic transmission and plasticity.

Sahar Ahmad, PhD, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

orcid.org/0000-0001-7243-9977 Research areas: Neuroimaging; Brain development; Lifespan; Deep learning

Sahba Besharati, PhD, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Christian Beste, PhD, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany

orcid.org/0000-0002-2989-9561 Research areas: EEG, human electrophysiology, brain stimulation, psychopharmacology, neuropsychiatric disorders, cognitive neuroscience

Jacqueline Gottlieb, PhD, Columbia University, USA

orcid.org/0000-0001-6507-4375 Research areas: Attention, decision making, executive function, curiosity, neurophysiology

Shenbing Kuang, PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

orcid.org/0000-0002-2113-8258 Research areas: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology, Visual perception, Motor control, Attention, Neurophysiology

Alizée Lopez-Persem, PhD, Paris Brain Institute, France

orcid.org/0000-0002-7566-5715 Research areas: cognitive neuroscience; high executive functions; decision-making; creativity; intra-EEG; fMRI; vmPFC; OFC

Jessica Peter, PhD, University of Bern, Switzerland

orcid.org/0000-0002-0817-8431 Research areas: Memory, Ageing, Neurodegeneration, non-pharmacological interventions

Enzo Tagliazucchi, PhD, National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina

orcid.org/0000-0003-0421-9993 Research areas: Cognition; states of consciousness; computational modeling; dynamical systems; machine learning

Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, PhD, University of Bordeaux, France

orcid.org/0000-0002-0329-1814 Research areas: Cognitive neuroscience, stroke, brain anatomy and evolution

Jonathan Touboul, PhD, Brandeis University, USA

orcid.org/0000-0003-1366-0414 Research areas: Models in neuroscience, ecology, embryonic development, dynamical systems, probability and stochastic processes.

Marta Vallejo, PhD, Heriot-Watt University, UK

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9957-954X Research areas: Machine/Deep learning in healthcare for diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and patient stratification

Madhumita Basu, PhD, MelliCell Inc., USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-0378-7780 Research areas: cardiovascular disease, genetics, disease modeling, single-cell RNA seq

Aline Bozec, PhD, Universitatsklinikum Erlangen, Germany 

orcid.org/0000-0001-8174-2118 Research areas: bone biology, immunology, molecular medicine

Jesmond Dalli, PhD, Queen Mary University of London, UK

orcid.org/0000-0001-6328-3640 Research areas: Lipid mediators, G-protein coupled receptors, phagocytes, omega-3 supplements, arthritis, cardiovascular disease, bacterial infection, tissue repair, tissue regeneration

Ashwani Gupta, PhD, University of Arizona, USA

orcid.org/0000-0001-7069-5299 Research areas: Stem cells; Organoids; Tissue engineering; Regeneration; Scaffolds; Kidney; Kidney disease; Regenerative medicine; Stem cell therapy; Animal models

Christopher Hine, PhD, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, USA

orcid.org/0000-0003-1926-7939 Research areas: Aging, metabolism, adaptation

Tami Martino, PhD, University of Guelph, Canada

orcid.org/0000-0003-1913-8416 Research areas: Cardiovascular disease modeling, circadian rythm

Martina Rauner, PhD, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Germany 

orcid.org/0000-0002-4067-6799 Research areas: Bone biology

Gabriela da Silva Xavier, PhD, University of Birmingham, UK

orcid.org/0000-0002-0678-012X Research areas: Energy homeostasis, particularly in fuel sensing mechanisms that may play a role in diabetes and obesity

Daniele Torella, PhD, University ‘Magna Graecia’, Italy

orcid.org/0000-0002-4915-5084 Research areas: Cardiac regeneration; cardiac stem cells; cardiac progenitors; cardiac biology; cardiac differentiation; cardiac muscle cell biology; cardiac myogenesis

Hanyang Cai, PhD, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China

https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-6091-888X Research areas: Plant biology; Plant reproduction; Female germline development; Megaspore mother cells (MMCs) development

Matteo Dell'Acqua, PhD, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy

orcid.org/0000-0001-5703-8382 Research areas: genomics; quantitative genetics; population genetics; bioinformatics

Jorge Duitama, PhD, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia 

orcid.org/0000-0002-9105-6266 Research areas: Bioinformatics, Plant genomics, Population genomics, Evolutionary biology

José Estevez, PhD, National Research Council of Argentina, Argentina

orcid.org/0000-0001-6332-7738 Research areas: Plant biology, cell growth, cell signaling, Arabidopsis, root hairs, pollen tubes, ROS, Ca+2

Shahid Mukhtar, PhD, Clemson University, USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-1104-6931 Research areas: Plant biology, bioinformatics, genomics

Leena Tripathi, PhD, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kenya

orcid.org/0000-0001-5723-4981 Research areas: Plant genome-editing, genetic transformation, transgenic, disease resistance

Her focus is on “Science to Practice” and linking scientific innovations to practical applications to solve food production. Her team has successfully established a robust genetic transformation and genome-editing platform at IITA —the only one of its kind in Africa— to develop genetically modified and genome-edited products and to transfer these technologies to national agricultural research systems in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. The research outputs of her group have been published in over 90 articles in refereed internationally reputed journals and book chapters. Her research has been featured in more than 200 national and international news articles and documentary films. Recently, she has been honored as the fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for her contributions to Agriculture and food security. LinkedIn webpage

Marie-Anne Van Sluys, PhD, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

orcid.org/0000-0002-6506-2734 Research areas: Plant-microbe interaction; Transposable elements; Xanthomonadaceae; Comparative genomics

Xiaoling Xu, PhD, Hangzhou Normal University, China

orcid.org/0000-0001-8995-1213 Research areas: photosynthesis, electron transport, carbon fixation, protein-pigment complexes, quinol oxidoreductase, proton pumps, enzyme engineering, structure-based drug design.

Heejin Yoo, PhD, University of Utah, USA

orcid.org/0000-0002-9630-8207 Research areas:  Plant Immunity, Systemic acquired resistance, Plant secondary metabolism, Plant volatiles, Plant defense mechanism, Translational regulation

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One of the primary ways that inequities are established and perpetuated within scholarly communication is via the gatekeeping function of editorial boards and peer reviewers. Both roles play a significant part in determining what kinds of topics are deemed worthy of publication and which particular articles are chosen to address those topics. 

A lack of diversity in these gatekeeping roles can result in barriers to publication for scholars working in new fields, those challenging the status quo, and many who lack the connections to well-established scholars in their field. These kinds of biases and inequities can have detrimental consequences for the careers and retention of scholars and researchers who don’t “fit the mold”–in turn resulting in an ongoing lack of diversity in academia and a narrowed body of research within the scholarly record.

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A recent study of submissions to the open access journal eLife between 2012 and 2017 found that a significant lack of diversity among peer reviewers resulted in similarly homogeneous authorship: “Women and authors from nations outside of North America and Europe were underrepresented both as gatekeepers (editors and peer reviewers) and authors” ( Murray et al., 2019 ). The data showed higher rates of acceptance where authors shared the same gender and national identity as the peer reviewers. This preference pattern was also visible in a study of journal editors for the open access publisher Frontiers , who typically selected reviewers matching their own gender, whether male or female – indicating that similarity bias can exist within both dominant and underrepresented groups ( Helmer, Schottdorf, Neef, & Battaglia, 2017 ).  Amplifying structural biases within peer review, scientists in well-resourced countries typically review up to three times more papers than they submit, whereas researchers in less well-resourced nations typically review fewer papers than they submit, an imbalance attributable to “geographical biases in the appointment of editors and their reliance on local reviewers” with editorial and peer review networks predominately centered in well-funded, research producing nations ( Publons, 2018 ).

Models of peer review

These kinds of “social bias,” which can manifest not only geographically, but also in terms of language, race, ethnicity, ability, age, and gender, can perpetuate inequities across scholarly communication, thus reinforcing established networks. Publishers have experimented with a variety of peer review models to try to reduce biases, typically by masking identities through an anonymous peer review process (previously referred to as “blind” peer review). Initially, anonymous peer review processes focused on obscuring the identity of the reviewer but not the author, thus failing to address any potential bias among reviewers. However, the switch to “double-anonymous” or “double-anonymized” peer review, where both the author and the reviewer remain anonymous to each other, was shown to significantly increase the percentage of articles with women as first authors within a specific ecology journal ( Budden et al. 2007 ) and to increase the scores of submissions from women to a linguistics conference ( Roberts & Verhoef, 2016 ). Double-anonymous peer review has proved an effective method for preventing reviewers from accurately guessing the identities of authors in some disciplines ( Le Goues et al, 2018 ). This shielding of author identity is intended to eliminate or reduce many types of unconscious bias on the part of reviewers. 

“Transparent” or “open” peer review has also been introduced as a way to make all parties more accountable for the publishing process and to eliminate potential reviewer bias which can be protected behind a shield of anonymity. Author and/or reviewer names and identities are disclosed to each other, and/or the reviews themselves may be published alongside the accepted, published article, with or without the identities of the reviewers revealed. Many publishers are experimenting with one of 22 identified configurations of open peer review ( Ross-Hellauer, 2017 ). Data from both Peer J’s and Elsevier’s open peer review implementations suggest that while the value of publishing the peer review reports is recognized by authors and reviewers, the majority of reviewers still prefer to remain anonymous in those published reports ( PeerJ, 2018 and Bravo, 2019 ) . 

An alternative to publicly transparent peer review is “collaborative” or “community” peer review. In this model, authors and reviewers are introduced to each other and interact to discuss the work that is being reviewed, working together before publication. This model comes out of teaching and mentoring efforts to demystify the process and improve research writing, as well as the work of scholars whose research involves and impacts broader communities ( Liboiron & Schoot 2018 ) and who, therefore, have developed mechanisms for community feedback. Open community review is not new to fields such as economics, math, and computer science, where there has been a longstanding culture of sharing preprints and inviting community feedback.

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A 2020 New York Times article revealed that, at the time of publication, “[c]lose to 90 percent of the members of the Royal Society’s editorial boards were white. Among editors employed in the United States by PLoS , 74 percent were white; none identified as Black. Roughly 80 percent of A.A.A.S. leadership, editors and advisers were white” ( Wu, 2020 ). Editors influence what is published and can bring their own conscious and unconscious bias to such decision-making. Broader representation on editorial boards is critical not only for expanding opportunities for underrepresented scholars, but also for ensuring the comprehensiveness of the scholarship itself.

Mirroring and creating inequity

As one clinical researcher explains, a lack of diversity in editorial boards “may cause inequities in the type of research and viewpoints that are published and who gets published [which]…has consequences for the scientists submitting to these journals, and farther reaching implications for policy, patient care, and scientific progress, at large” ( Akst, 2021 ).  

A recent analysis of leading emergency medicine journals suggests that lack of representation on editorial boards correlates with differential prestige and professional standing: “Across all journals included, women physicians on editorial boards were the vast minority, and were far less likely to hold the title of dean or full professor, or prominent departmental positions such as chair. Male editorial board members possessed higher h-indices, total citations, and more publishing years than their female counterparts” ( Hutchinson et. al., 2021 ). Another study suggests that, within the social sciences, the lack of representation on editorial boards is emblematic of broader professional inequities: “[E]vidence from the field of political science suggests that women faculty members were more likely to perform internal service roles (for example, departmental committee work), while men were more likely to perform higher-status external service roles, such as editing” ( Palser Lazerwitz, & Fotopoulou., 2022 ).

Incomplete demographic data

Studies of diversity in editorial boards have been significantly limited by the incomplete demographic data available for journal board members. Researchers who work in this area have largely relied on publicly available data, computational analysis, social media, and surveys to assess the racial, gender, and geographical diversity of editorial boards and their impact on publishing patterns, peer review, promotion, and tenure. 

Despite these complications, the data that scholars have amassed and assessed has provided ample evidence for how disparities in racial, gender, and geographic representation on editorial boards perpetuates inequities for scholars from historically marginalized groups.

The need for demographic data

Peer reviewers and editors play a significant role in determining the research that is published,  valued, and built upon within their fields. 

Reviewers often function as gatekeepers within a profession, with the power to determine what does or does not get published based on their evaluation of the quality/relevance of the research. By understanding what biases might be present in the review of others’ work, and then taking steps to practice more inclusive peer review, peer reviewers have the opportunity to create more inclusive communities of scholars and more comprehensive scholarship within their fields. 

Editors influence what is published and can bring their own conscious and unconscious bias to such decision-making. Broader representation on editorial boards is critical not only for expanding opportunities for underrepresented scholars, but also for ensuring the comprehensiveness of the scholarship itself.

Effect change as a peer reviewer or member of an editorial board with the following suggested actions:

• Learn about unconscious (or implicit) bias and consider how it could influence your peer review and editorial activities
• Embed training and mentoring in the peer review process in order to educate peer reviewers while not creating an undue burden on their time and work 
• Solicit a broad range of reviewers in order to diversify the reviewer pool and ensure that a small group of people are not carrying the majority of the work
• Assess and document the demographics of peer reviewers to understand how they correlate to the demographics of accepted/rejected publications

Resources for avoiding bias in peer review

• Anti-Racist scholarly reviewing practices provides a guide on anti-racist professional practices in the form of a heuristic for editors, reviewers, and authors involved in academic reviewing.
• PREreview’s Open Reviewers Toolkit provides free training resources focused on bias-free peer review.
• Eight Ways to Tackle Diversity and Inclusion in Peer Review offers practical suggestions for avoiding bias in peer review.
• Explore different peer review models and consider the bias they may or may not support.

Resources for diversifying editorial boards and their publications

• Diversifying Editorial Boards from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) addresses the whys and hows of diversifying your editorial board.
• Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Toolkit for Journal Editors (APA) offers more than 30 recommended actions journal editors can take to promote equity and inclusion in their journals.
• See a summary of five steps for editors to create a more diverse and inclusive journal–part of SAGE’s comprehensive Taking Action on Diversity guidance.
• Library Publishing Coalition’s Roadmap for Anti-Racist Practice  
• New Florida Journal of Anthropology’s incorporation of a Diversity and Inclusion statement in its Editorial Policies
• DEI statement on the About page for International Journal of Social Welfare

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Honorary Editor-in-Chief ： Songlin ZHUANG , University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China Co- Editors-in-Chief ： Min GU, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China Min QIU, Westlake University, China Hongbo SUN, Tsinghua University, China Deputy Editors ： Qiwen ZHAN, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China Xiaoyi BAO, University of Ottawa, Canada Yi LUO,  Tsinghua University, China Senior Editors ： Alexander Shkurinov, Lomonosov Moscow State Unviversity, Russia Chaoyang LU, University of Science and Technology of China, China Christos Kouloumentas ， National Technical University of Athens，Greece Dawei ZHANG, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China Dong LIU, Zhejiang University, China Dragomir Neshev ,   Australian National University, Australia Guo’an ZHENG, University of Connecticut, USA Grover Swartzlander , Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Liangcai CAO, Tsinghua University, China Ling FU, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Liwei LIU , Shenzhen University, China Nicholas X. Fang, Hong Kong University, China Jeremy Witzens, RWTH Aachen University，Germany Jiaguang HAN, Tianjin University, China Jinyang LIANG ， Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) Université du Québec，Canada Juejun Hu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA Junsuk Rho, Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH), Korea Shilong PAN,  Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China Shumin XIAO, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Xiaofeng LI, Soochow University, China Xuewen CHEN, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Yangjian CAI, Shandong Normal University, China Zhengming SHENG, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Zhipei SUN, Aalto Univertisy, Finland Associate Editors ： Ziyang ZHANG, Westlake University, China ( Managing Editor ) Chao ZUO, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China Jiamin WU, Tsinghua University, China Jianwei YOU , Southeast University，China Linhan LIN, Tsinghua University, China Lingling HUANG, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Pu ZHOU, National University of Defense Technology, China Qiming ZHANG , University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China Wei YAN, Westlake University, China Wei ZHENG, Sun Yat-sen University, China Yiming ZHU, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China Editorial Director Jin LI, Chinese Society for Optical Engineering, China Editorial Staff ： Fangfang CAI, Chinese Society for Optical Engineering, China Qing CHANG, Communication University of Zhejiang, China Editorial Board Members Andrew Forbes , University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Ben Zhong TANG , South China University of Technology/The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Chongjin XIE , Alibaba Group, China Daniel Jaque , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Dongling MA , National Institute of Scientific Research, Center for Energy, Materials, and Telecommunications (INRS-EMT), Canada Dragomir Neshev , Australian National University, Australia Eli Yablonovitch , University of California, Berkeley, USA JingHua TENG , Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) , Singapore Kazuhiko Hirakawa , The University of Tokyo, Japan Qing HU , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Qingming LUO , Hainan University, China Qionghua WANG , Beihang University, China Satoshi Kawata , Osaka University, Japan Saulius Juodkazis , Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Siddharth Ramachandran, Boston University, USA Taco D. Visser , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Tiejun CUI , Southeast University, China Wolfgang Osten , Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany Xiang LIU , HUAWEI R&D USA, China Xiaocong YUAN , Shenzhen University, China Xuelong LI , Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

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