5 August 2025
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Board Members of Brain Sciences

Brain Sciences (ISSN: 2076-3425) is pleased to announce the addition of the following 15 researchers to the 2025 Early Career Editorial Board. We would like to congratulate them on becoming part of the journal’s community!

Name: Dr. Alka Bishnoi
Affiliation:
Department of Physical Therapy, College of Health Professions and Human Services, Kean University, Union, NJ 07083, USA
Homepage: https://www.kean.edu/directory/alka-bishnoi
Research interests: cognitive neuroscience; cognition; falls; mobility impairment; brain impairment; concussion; TBI; neurological disorders; musculoskeletal disorders; cardiovascular disorders; brain plasticity; brain stimulation; dual-task walking; walking interventions

Name: Dr. Angelos Papadopoulos
Affiliation: Department of Speech and Language Therapy, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9988-9273
Research interests: speech and language disorders; communication disorders; special learning disabilities; voice and swallowing disorders; assessment; intervention; validation; pediatric; children; ASD; autism

Name: Dr. Cecilia Maria Esposito
Affiliation: Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, IRCCS Fondazione Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, 20122 Milan, Italy
Homepage: https://www.policlinico.mi.it/i-nostri-professionisti/profilo/5180/esposito-cecilia-maria
Research interests: neuroscience; phenomenological psychopathology

Name: Dr. Elisabetta Fasiello
Affiliation: IUSS Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON) Center, Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS, Pavia, Italy
Homepage: https://www.iusspavia.it/it/rubrica/elisabetta-fasiello
Research interests: cognitive neuroscience; electrophysiology; sleep; insomnia disorder; REM behavior disorder

Name: Dr. Eveline Mu
Affiliation: HER Centre Australia, Department of Psychiatry, School of Translational Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia
Homepage: https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/eveline-mu
Research interests: women’s mental health; neurobiology; trauma; gonadal hormones; cognitive neuroscience

Name: Dr. Garrett Cardon
Affiliation: ComD, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
Homepage: https://education.byu.edu/directory/view/garrett-cardon
Research interests: autism; sensory processing; double empathy; functional connectivity; fMRI; EEG; hearing loss; cochlear implants; cross-modal plasticity

Name: Dr. Luigi Balasco
Affiliation: Department of Life Sciences and Public Health, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
Homepage: https://publires.unicatt.it/en/persons/luigi-balasco
Research interests: neuroscience; neurodevelopmental disorders; autism spectrum disorders; genetic mouse models; molecular and cellular neuroscience; sensory system neuroscience; behavioral neuroscience

Name: Dr. Luigi Tinella
Affiliation: Department of Humanities, Philosophy and Education, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4296-5233
Research interests: spatial cognition; behavioral neuroscience; driving behaviors; psychometrics; quantitative methods

Name: Dr. Md. Shiblur Rahaman
Affiliations: 1. Department of Public Health, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77340, USA; 2. Department of Environmental Science and Disaster Management, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali-3814, Bangladesh
Homepage: https://shsu-prod.dotcms.cloud/academics/health-sciences/health/faculty-bio/md-shiblur-rahamanhttps://www.nstu.edu.bd/faculty-member.php?faculty=md-shiblur-rahaman-c5r213 and https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9920-4809
Research interests: environmental epidemiology (neuroepidemiology); environmental toxicology; environmental pollution and human health

Name: Dr. Neelakshi Soni
Affiliation: UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Homepage: https://geschwindlab.com/members/neelakshi-soni/ 
Research interests: neurobiology and behavior; Alzheimer's disease; microglia; multi-omics; mouse models; human post-mortem; single-cell analysis; spatial transcriptomics

Name: Dr. Nicola Acevedo
Affiliation: Centre for Mental Health, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia
Homepage: https://experts.swinburne.edu.au/8532-nicola-acevedo
Research interests: neurostimulation; psychedelics; obsessive–compulsive disorder; novel therapies; neurobiological treatments; clinical neurosciences

Name: Dr. Nicola Mancini 
Affiliation: Department of Education and Sport Sciences, Pegaso Telematic University, 80143 Naples, Italy
Homepage: https://www.unipegaso.it/docenti/nicola-mancini-1  
Research interests: neuroscience; sport; innovative technologies; biomechanics

Name: Dr. Qin-Wei Wu
Affiliation: School of Life Sciences, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
Homepage: https://microbiome.ahu.edu.cn/2023/0324/c19410a303358/page.htm
Research interests: neurobiology; developmental biology

Name: Dr. Rafał Gerymski
Affiliation: Department of Health Psychology and Quality of Life, Institute of Psychology, Opole University, 45-040 Opole, Poland
Homepage: https://ip.uni.opole.pl/pracownicy/rafal-gerymski/
Research interests: health psychology; sexology; neuropsychology; cyberpsychology

Name: Dr. Selcuk Guven
Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine & CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center/Brain and Child Development Axis, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1J4, Canada
Homepage: https://research.chusj.org/en/Axes-de-recherche/Bio?id=de1cf9a1-17ab-47e1-b85e-3ce5dcad16f8
Research interests: speech–language pathology; neuropsychology; computational neuroscience; AI and machine learning in health

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