Dr. Joachim Pleil has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Breath Research.
Dr. Pleil is a Research Physical Scientist with the Office of Research and Development of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (ORD/EPA). He currently works in the Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division of the National Exposure Research Laboratory located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He also serves as adjunct Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the Gillings School of Public Health of the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Chapel Hill.
As a Federal researcher, he has had the opportunity to collaborate on environmental health issues with all branches of the U.S. Military, NASA, CDC, NIOSH, and the U.S. intelligence community. He has authored or co-authored over 120 articles, reviews, editorials, book chapters, and published Government reports of which 40 are related to exhaled breath analysis (and 19 are published in Journal of Breath Research). He is a founding member and scientific board member of the International Association of Breath Research (IABR) and of the Journal of Breath Research.
