Editorial Board of Physical Review Letters
APS Publications Leadership and Management
Editorial Roles in the Physical Review Journals
Editors of Physical Review Letters
Matthew D. Eager, Chief Editor
American Physical Society, USA
Matt holds a B.A. from Drew University and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Brandeis University, and completed postdoctoral research at Iowa State University. In 1999 Matt joined the editorial team of Physical Review B, where he handled many topics in condensed matter physics, including superconductivity and magnetism in the Rapid Communications section. He joined Physical Review Applied in 2014 and became the Managing Editor in 2021.
Jelena Vučković, Lead Editor
Stanford University California, USA
Jelena Vučković is the Jensen Huang Professor in Global Leadership and a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at Stanford, where she leads the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab. Upon receiving her Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology in 2002, she joined the Stanford Electrical Engineering Faculty in 2003. At Stanford she has also served as the Fortinet Founders Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department, and was the inaugural director of QFARM, the Stanford-SLAC Quantum Initiative. Jelena joined the APS family as Lead Editor of Physical Review Applied in August of 2024.
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Badreddine Assouar, Associate EditorUniversity of Lorraine and CNRS, Nancy, France Badreddine Assouar received his Ph.D. in Materials Physics from Nancy University in France in 2001. In 2002, he became a Research Scientist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France. He obtained his Habilitation to supervise research (HDR) in 2007 from the University of Lorraine. In 2010, he joined the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta as visiting Professor. Since 2013, he has led the “Acoustic Metamaterials and Phononics” group at the University of Lorraine, where he is developing research on acoustic and elastic metamaterials, metasurfaces, phononics and SAW devices. Badreddine was elected a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences in 2024. |
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Giovanni Finocchio, Associate EditorUniversity of Messina, Italy Giovanni Finocchio received his Ph.D. in advanced technologies in optoelectronic, photonic, and electromagnetic modeling from the University of Messina, Italy, in 2006 and is now an Associate Professor in its Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Physical Sciences and Earth Sciences. His research interests include spintronics, skyrmions, antiferromagnets, and computing. In the last 10 years, he served on many technical program committees of international conferences and organized more than 10 international conferences and workshops. He is currently the Director of the Petaspin Laboratory at the University of Messina and is the President of the Petaspin Association. Giovanni joined the Physical Review Applied team in 2022. |
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Margaret Hudson, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Margaret received her B.S. in Chemistry from Sewanee: the University of the South in 2014 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Chicago in 2019. She did her postdoctoral research at North Carolina State University. She worked on many areas of Materials Chemistry including the synthesis and characterization of inorganic materials, photophysics, and colloidal quantum dots. She joined the Physical Review family of journals in 2021. |
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Junqiu Liu, Associate EditorUniversity of Science and Technology of China, China Junqiu Liu is a principal scientist at Shenzhen International Quantum Academy and a tenure-track assistant professor at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He received his Ph.D. from EPFL in 2020, MSc (with highest distinction) from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2016, and BSc from USTC in 2012. Junqiu’s research interest lies in the interdisciplinary domains of integrated photonics, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, MEMS, and microwave photonics. He has published more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has received numerous awards, including the 2021 EPFL Doctorate Award for his Ph.D. thesis. Junqiu joined the Physical Review Applied team in 2024. |
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Qiao Qiao, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Qiao Qiao received her B.Sc. in physics from Nanjing University and her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focused on the study of atomic and electronic structures of functional materials, using aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy combined with density functional theory calculations. She did her postdoctoral work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and later became a research assistant professor at Temple University and a visiting scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She joined the Physical Review Applied team in 2019. |
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Juzar Thingna, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Juzar received his Ph.D. in 2013 from the National University of Singapore. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Augsburg, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, University of Luxembourg, and University of Massachusetts at Lowell. He was a group leader at the Institute of Basic Science in South Korea. Juzar joined APS in 2023 as an Associate Editor with PRX Quantum and Physical Review Applied. |
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Tie Jun Cui, Metamaterials and Computational ElectromagneticsSoutheast University, China Tie Jun Cui is the Chief Professor of Southeast University, Nanjing, China, and the Director of State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves. He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 1993. His research is focused on metamaterials and computational electromagnetics. He proposed the concepts of digital coding and programmable metamaterials and established the new direction of information metamaterials, which bridge the physical world and digital world. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed journal papers with more than 62000 citations (H-factor 123), and received numerous awards, including the National Natural Science Awards of China in 2014 and 2018. He is the Academician of the Chinese Academy of Science, and an IEEE Fellow. |
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Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, Acoustic MetamaterialsIEMN, UFR de Physique, Université de Lille I, France Bahram Djafari-Rouhani is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Lille, France, where he belongs to the Institute of Electronic, Microelectronic and Nanotechnology (IEMN). He received his Ph.D. in 1974 and his Doctorat d’Etat in 1978 from the University of Paris-Orsay. After a postdoctoral position at the University of Gent, he held a research position at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) from 1980 to 1985. In 1985 he became Professor at the University of Mulhouse, before moving to Lille in 1990. His scientific activities deal with the theory and modeling of wave propagation and elementary excitations in heterogeneous and nanostructured materials; more particularly, phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials, optomechanics, photonics, and plasmonics. He has published over 300 papers in international journals, plus about 20 review articles and book chapters. He was awarded the Bloch Prize at the Phononics 2013 conference, and is a member of the International Phononic Society (IPS). |
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Julie Grollier, Spintronics, Memristors, Bioinspired ComputingUnité Mixte de Physique, CNRS-Thales, France Julie Grollier is a research director in the CNRS/Thales lab in France, where she leads the “Nanodevices for Bio-Inspired Computing” team. Her research interests include spintronics and nanodevices for neuromorphic computing. Julie has over 100 publications, is frequently an invited speaker at international conferences, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2010 she was awarded the Jacques Herbrand Prize of the French Academy of Science, and in 2018 she received the Silver Medal in Physics from the CNRS for her pioneering work on spintronics and brain-inspired computing. |
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Seung-Hoon Jhi, Computational Materials SciencePohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea Seung-Hoon Jhi is Professor of Physics at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Seoul National University in 1998, then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His primary research interests are in computational materials science and condensed matter physics. He has studied hard materials, carbon nanotubes, graphene, topological insulators, phase-change materials, and hydrogen storage. |
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Paul Kelly, Magnetism, Electronic Structure Theory (DFT)University of Twente, The Netherlands Paul Kelly is Full Professor of Computational Materials Science at the University of Twente (the Netherlands) since 1997, having worked at Philips Research Laboratories for 12 years before that. His current research focuses on developing ab initio methods for studying spin-dependent transport in complex materials, and on topics related to two-dimensional van der Waals structures. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in physics in 1976 from University College, Dublin, and then did research on the electronic structure of actinide oxides at the (Kern)forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, leading to his Ph.D. degree in 1980. Paul then worked on a variety of topics related to density functional theory, at the Max Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart and at IBM-Yorktown Heights, before moving to Philips-Eindhoven in 1985. |
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Thomas Laurell, Lab-on-a-chip, Microfluidics, BiomedicineLund University, Sweden Thomas Laurell has been a professor since 2000 in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Nanobiotechnology and Lab-on-a-chip, at Lund University in Sweden. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Lund in 1995. His research focus has been microtechnology in the life sciences, with a special focus on microfluidics and lab-on-chip technology in biomedicine. He has pioneered chip-integrated acoustofluidics, which is currently his main research focus. He is a cofounder of the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS) and served as its President for 2010–2017. Thomas is an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and a Fellow of the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo. |
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Beatriz Noheda, Ferroelectricity, MultiferroicsUniversity of Groningen, The Netherlands Beatriz Noheda is Professor at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and chair of the Nanostructures of Functional Oxides group at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials. In 2011 she was elected Fellow of the APS, and since 2017 has served as the founding Director of the Groningen Cognitive Systems and Materials Center (CogniGron). Before arriving in Groningen in 2004, she conducted research at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, and at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, where she also received her Ph.D. in 1996. Her team develops materials for future electronics, focusing on ferroelectric, piezoelectric, (anti)ferromagnetic, multiferroic, and memristive oxides. By means of controlled deposition techniques, such as pulsed laser deposition, the aim is to achieve atomic control over the materials, to create new functionalities at the nanoscale as the basis for novel memory and logic devices, including hardware for brain-inspired computer architectures. |
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Jukka Pekola, Superconducting Devices, Cryogenics & MesoscopicsAalto University, Finland Jukka Pekola is a Professor of Physics at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. His research interests focus on superconducting quantum devices, mesoscopic charge and heat transport, single-electron devices, thermodynamics of quantum systems and processes, thermometry, and refrigeration. |
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Ada S.Y. Poon, Bioelectronics, Wireless PoweringStanford University, USA Ada received her Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She spent some time in industry, working at Intel and SiBeam. She then joined the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign before returning to California, where she is now an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Ada is also a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Senior Investigator. |
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Yu-Bo Sheng, Quantum Optics, Quantum Information ScienceNanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Yu-Bo Sheng received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Yangzhou University in 2003 and 2006, and his Ph.D. from Beijing Normal University in 2009. He did postdoctoral research at Tsinghua University from 2009 to 2011, visited University of Waterloo from 2018 to 2019, joined Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2011, and became a professor in 2016. His research covers quantum optics, quantum communication, quantum computation, and quantum information processing. He has won first prize and second prize in the Natural Science Award of the Chinese Electronics Society. His achievements have been rated as major scientific and technological progress in the field of information and communication by the China Communications Society. |
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Susanne Siebentritt, Solar Cells, Semiconductor PhysicsUniversité du Luxembourg, Luxembourg Susanne Siebentritt is a physics professor and heads the laboratory for photovoltaics at the University of Luxembourg. Her research interest is twofold: the electronic structure of thin-film solar cells, and the fundamental functioning and limitations of these devices. Her interest in thin-film solar cells is kindled by the fact that they present the electricity source with the lowest carbon footprint. Susanne is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, and in 2014 she and three coauthors received the FNR Outstanding Publication Award. In 2015 she was awarded the Grand Prix en Sciences Physique – Prix Paul Wurth of the Luxembourgish Institut Grand Ducal. She is also a Board member for the Kopernikus Projects, a 10-year research program for the energy transition of the German Ministry of Education and Research. |
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Stefano Spagna, Cryogenics InstrumentationQuantum Design, Inc., USA Stefano Spagna has been the Chief Technical Officer at Quantum Design since 2008. As CTO, he leads the New Products Research and Development team, overseeing the design of Quantum Design’s materials characterization platforms, and creating a unique vision for both the industrial and software user interfaces for Quantum Design’s instruments. Stefano received his Ph.D. in Materials Science in 1995 from the University of California, San Diego, sponsored by Quantum Design as a student in Prof. Brian Maple's laboratory. In his doctoral research, he developed the diagnostic capability for a commercial superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer to characterize freshly deposited thin-film samples transported from a separate molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) facility, without breaking vacuum. Stefano’s research interests include cryogenic instrumentation, superconductivity, and surface and interfacial magnetism. |
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Robert Visser, OLED, LCDApplied Materials, Inc., USA Dr. Robert Visser is managing director of advanced chemistry and materials for the Advanced Technology Group at Applied Materials, Inc. He is responsible for creating business opportunities in new and adjacent markets related to future displays, AR and VR, and roll-to-roll barrier films, as well as developing novel chemistries for semiconductor manufacturing. For more than 30 years, Dr. Visser has pioneered research and commercialization of display technologies related to thin-film transistors, LCD materials, barrier films (including encapsulation materials), and OLED and flexible displays. Prior to joining Physical Review Applied, he was CTO of Vitex Systems, where he guided the company through conceiving and demonstrating the feasibility of multilayer thin-film encapsulation technology, to the industrialization of its manufacturing equipment and transformation into a technology licensing company. Dr. Visser also spent 18 years in various roles at Philips Research, including CEO and CTO of the PolyLED business. He received a Special Award from SID in 2016 for his work on OLED and thin-film encapsulation. Dr. Visser holds a master’s degree in theoretical organic chemistry and physics, and a Ph.D. in physical and organic chemistry, both from Leiden University. |
