Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief: B.M. Ure, Hannover

Editorial Board Members

A. Bonnard, Paris
S. D. St. Peter, Kansas City
P. Kaliciński, Warsaw
M. Lacher, Leipzig


Editors Emeriti

A.M. Holschneider, Bergisch Gladbach
Y. Revillon, Paris

EUPSA Editor

Chairman of the EUPSA Scientific Office
M. Pakarinen, Helsinki

Associated Editors representing the following countries or regions

A.R. Al-Qahtani, Middle East
M. Baglaj, Poland
R. Carachi, UK
J. Correia-Pinto, Portugal
A. De Backer, Belgium
G. Fitze, Germany
H. Flageole, Canada
S. D. St. Peter, USA
D.U. Krivchenya, Ukraine
Z. Krstic, Serbia
S. Lipovšek, Slovenia
M. Meuli, Switzerland
A. Mironescu, Romania
M. Pakarinen, Finland
G. Riccipetitoni, Italy
A.M. Rokitansky, Austria
R. Skába, Czech Republic
H. Skari, Norway
P. Stefanova, Bulgaria
F.C. Tanyel, Turkey
J. Thorup, Denmark
J.A. Tovar, Spain
E. van Heurn, The Netherlands
M. Vidiscác, Slovakia
T. Wester, Sweden
A. Yamataka, Asia

Editorial Consultants

D. Aronson, Amsterdam
R.G. Azizkhan, Omaha
E. Bruder, Basel
P. Caione, Roma
P. Czauderna, Gdansk
M. Davenport, London
I. de Blaauw, Nijmegen
P. de Coppi, London
S. Eaton, London
O. Ergün, Izmir
P. Frykman, Los Angeles
J. Fuchs, Tübingen
J.-M. Guys, Marseille
N. J. Hall, Southampton
F.-M. Häcker, Basel
A. Hesse, Accra/Ghana
P.R. Johnson, Oxford
M. Kaiser, Lübeck
R. Keijzer, Manitoba
A. Koivusalo, Helsinki
J. Kuebler, Hannover
M. Lacher, Leipzig
J. Langer, Toronto
M.-D. Leclair, Nantes
M. Levitt, Cincinnati
P.D. Losty, Liverpool
B. Ludwikowski, Hannover
L. Martinez, Madrid
G. Martucciello, Genoa
M. Metzelder, Vienna
O. Muensterer, Mainz
A. Mustafawi, Dubai
D. Patkowski, Wroclaw
L. Pereira, Madrid
C. Petersen, Hannover
A. Petersons, Riga
A. Pierro, Toronto
H. Rode, Africa
U. Rolle, Frankfurt/M
M. Rygl, Prague
S. Sarnacki, Paris
S. D. St. Peter, Kansas City
A.K. Saxena, London
C. Schiestl, Zürich
P.P. Schmittenbecher, Karlsruhe
G. Seitz, Marburg
D. Sommerfeldt, Hamburg
R. Suempelmann, Hannover
I. Sukhotnik, Haifa
J. Svensson, Stockholm
P.O. Szavay, Lucerne
G. T. Tekant, Istanbul
D. Tibboel, Rotterdam
H. Till, Graz
S. van As, Cape Town
D.C. van der Zee, Utrecht
D. von Schweinitz, München
F. Weber, Rotterdam
R. Wijnen, Rotterdam
B. Wildhaber, Genève
M. Wulkan, Atlanta
S. Yazbek, Montréal
Z. Zachariou, Nicosia
A. Zani, Toronto

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