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Trevor Archer Editor & Author

Danilo Garcia, Phd (in psychology in 2012), is Head of Research of the Blekinge Centre of Competence at the Blekinge County Council. The Center works on research, development, innovations through interdisciplinary teams, person-centered methods, community projects, and the dissemination of knowledge in order to increase well-being among the habitants of the county of Blekinge, Sweden. He is also an Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg and together with Professor Trevor Archer and Associate Professor Max Rapp Ricciardi, the leading researcher of the Network for Empowerment and Well-Being. This is an international network of junior and senior researchers and students who are interested in the field of well-being research.

Trevor Archer, PhD, is  currently a senior professor of biological psychology (formerly Professor and Chair of psychobiology, Head of Department and Dean of Faculty) at the University of Gothenburg currently writing about epigenetics in neuropsychiatry, the influence of physical exercise in Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, mood disorders, neuro-immune functioning, ADHD and traumatic brain function. Dr. Archer is the author of over 650 scientific publications, including working as Editor of the series Current Topics in Neurotoxicity at Springer. He was awarded Honorary Professor and Doctor and Member of the Polish Pharmacological Society, 2013, and the Sansone Award from the University of Washington, St. Louis, Missouri. 
Richard M. Kostrzewa, Ph.D. (Univ. Pennsylvania), is Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University. He has authored 190 papers (Pub Med), co-Edited 8 books, serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Handbook of Neurotoxicity, is Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal Neurotoxicity Research, and is co-Editor of the Springer book series Current Topics in Neurotoxicity. He was awarded Honorary Membership in the Polish Pharmacological Society; and he was a multi-year Visiting Professor at the Silesian Medical University in Katowice Poland, from which he received the Doctor Honoris causa. He is co-founder with Juan Segura-Aguilar (Univ. Chile) of the Neurotoxicity Society, having served terms as its President, Treasurer, and Councilor. His research is focused on processes and mechanisms associated with neurotoxins, neurodegenerative disorders, and dopaminergic systems in relation to dopamine receptor supersensitizat