MDPI Reviewer Club 2025 | Engineering Session 1
MDPI Reviewer Club 2025 | Engineering Session 1
Part of the MDPI Reviewer Club series
Peer Review, Scholarly Publishing, Reviewer Guidelines, Reviewer Experience, Ethics in Peer Review
Welcome from the Chair
Welcome to the MDPI Reviewer Club 2025 | Engineering Session 1.
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Date: 04 September 2025
Time: 3:00 pm CEST | 9:00 pm CST (Asia) | 9:00 am EDT
Webinar ID: 826 9500 8709
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Event Chairs
Ms. Diana Mara Fage holds a master’s degree in food control and processing and has more than 5 years of experience working in academic publishing. She works for MDPI as a Journal Relations Specialist and dedicates her time to maintaining and building collaborations with researchers and scholars. Additionally, she represents MDPI at academic events and maintains the integrity of several journals by ensuring that ethical standards are respected.
Keynote Speakers
The Slippery Art of Judging Peers: Pitfalls and Guidelines to Effectively Conduct a Scholarly Review
Mark Reybrouck studied physical education, physical therapy and musicology. He is emeritus professor at the University of Leuven and guest professor at Ghent University (Belgium). His research agenda concerns musical sense-making with a major focus on how music impinges on our body and our brain. At a theoretical level he is involved in foundational work on music cognition and perception, especially the biological roots of musical epistemology and the embodied and enactive approach to dealing with music. Besides, he has been involved also in empirical research on representational and metarepresentational strategies in music-listening tasks. He is author and editor of several books about listening strategies and cognitive strategies for dealing with music as well as edited volumes on musical semiotics and music and brain studies. His most recent contributions cover the field of embodied and enactive cognition and the domains of neuroaesthetics and neuroplasticity as applied to music. He is a much sought-after reviewer, especially in the interdisciplinary field, and was awarded recently the Signals Outstanding Reviewer Award
Behind the Red Pen: My Journey and Philosophy as a Reviewer
Giacomo Peruzzi received the B.Sc. degree in information engineering, the M.Sc. degree in computer and automation engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering and science from the University of Siena, Siena, Italy, in 2016, 2019, and 2023, respectively. He is currently a Research Fellow with the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padua, Italy. His current research interests include fields of the Internet of Things (IoT) and distributed measurement systems. In particular, he deals with wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for monitoring systems that are enabled by low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies, as well as embedded machine learning (ML) for measurement infrastructures.
Registration
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Programme
Program
|
Speaker |
Presentation Title |
Time in CEST |
Time in EDT |
Time in CST Asia |
|
Ms. Diana Mara Fage |
Introduction |
3:00 - 3:10 pm |
9:00 - 9:10 am |
9:00 - 9:10 pm |
|
Prof. Dr. Mark Reybrouck |
The Slippery Art of Judging Peers: Pitfalls and Guidelines to Effectively Conduct a Scholarly Review |
3:10 - 3:30 pm |
9:10 - 9:30 am |
9:10 - 9:30 pm |
| Dr. Giacomo Peruzzi |
Behind the Red Pen: My Journey and Philosophy as a Reviewer |
3:30 - 3:50 pm |
9:30 - 9:50 am |
9:30 - 9:50 pm |
|
Q&A |
3:50 - 4:10 pm |
9:50 - 10:10 am |
9:50 - 10:10 pm |
|
|
Ms. Diana Mara Fage |
Closing of Webinar |
4:10 - 4:20 pm |
10:10 - 10:20 am |
10:10 - 10:20 pm |
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