Meet the editors

Wei Wu is assistant to the Dean at the School of Public Health, and Professor and Associate Department Chair of the Department of Toxicology at Nanjing Medical University, China, where he received his Ph.D. in toxicology in 2012. He was a guest researcher at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) between 2017 and 2018. He is the PI of the State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and

the PI of the Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology at the Ministry of Education. Dr. Wu is a member of several national and international societies in the fields of human reproduction and toxicology and has received awards from many national societies for the originality and quality of his projects. Dr. Wu has authored 78 peer-reviewed papers in international journals. He has edited four books and collaborated on 10 books, 11 patents and in the organization of three international conferences. He is a reviewer for 104 international journals.

Panagiotis Tsikouras is a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, perinatal medicine, and contraception at the School of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He is also head of the Family Planning Centre and Gynecological Cytology Laboratory at the same university. Dr. Tsikouras is a fellow of the International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis. His scientific activities focus on pediatric

and adolescent medicine, gynecological oncology, and high-risk pregnancies. He is a reviewer for several international journals and has numerous scientific publications to his credit, including papers and book chapters. He has also contributed to international and national guidelines on coagulation and thrombosis in obstetrics and gynecology.

Qiuqin Tang is an associate chief physician of the Women's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University (Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital). Her research interests include genetic and epigenetic risk factors in reproductive and developmental health. She has authored 29 papers in international journals such as *EBioMedicine*, *Environmental Pollution*, *Clinical Epigenetics*, *Molecular Human Reproduction*, and *European* 

*Journal of Endocrinology*. She has collaborated on four books and three patents. She is the editor-in-chief of the *Journal of Woman's Reproductive Health*.

Werner Rath is a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, gynecological oncology, perinatal medicine and hemostaseology. Currently a professor of gynecology and obstetrics at Kiel University, he previously led the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at University Hospital, Aachen. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Alexandroupolis. He has received the Staude-Pfannenstiel Award of the North German

Society of Gynaecology & Obstetrics, the Maternity Award of the German Society

of Perinatal Medicine, Berlin, and the Harald-Bräutigam Award, Hamburg. His citable research publications date from 1977. He is a reviewer for numerous journals and, in addition to his publications and 13 book chapters, was chief editor of the German *Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology* (*Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde*).

Georg-Friedrich von Tempelhoff, FCATH, is a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, gynecological oncology, perinatal medicine and hemostaseology. He is head of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at St. Vinzenz Hospital, Hanau and head of the Institute for Thrombosis and Coagulation Disorders in Gynecology and Obstetrics, Hausen. He was educated at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, receiving his doctorate in medicine in 1993.

He became a consultant in obstetrics and gynecology in 1996. He completed his habilitation at the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz in 2007 and was appointed extracurricular professor at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in 2015. He is a fellow of the International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis / Hemostasis. His research focus is on hemostaseological and hemorheological disorders in women with miscarriages, pre-eclampsia and thrombosis. He is a reviewer for numerous journals and, in addition to his publications and book chapters, has contributed to international and national guidelines on coagulation and thrombosis in gynecology.

Nikolettos Nikos has been a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and assisted reproduction at Democritus University of Thrace, since 2018, and has managed the Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic since 2019. From 2007 to 2011 he was a director of the In-Vitro Fertilization Unit of the University Regional General Hospital, Alexandroupolis. From 2012 to 2018 he was director of the Laboratory of Reproductive Physiology and Artificial Fertilization.

He has more than 100 publications in international journals and has delivered many lectures by invitation to international and Greek conferences.

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