American Physical Society, USA
Thomas obtained his Ph.D. in physics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Germany). He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tennessee and later as a staff scientist at Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems. His research involves a variety of topics in atomic and molecular systems, including ultracold plasmas and atomic ionization. He joined Physical Review A as an Associate Editor in 2006.
Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany
Jan Michael obtained his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Freiburg (Germany), followed by a postdoc at Harvard University. He is a director at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and adjunct professor at the Technical University of Dresden. For his outstanding research he received several distinctions and awards. He is dean of the Max Planck Schools following leadership roles at numerous scientific committees and Boards. He is an APS member, formerly served as an Editorial Board member for PRA between 2004-2006 and leads the journal since 2019. His research focuses on Finite Systems, which are investigated at the extreme regimes of ultracold and ultrafast nonlinear dynamics.
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Bárbara Lopes Amaral, Associate EditorUniversity of São Paulo, Brazil Bárbara is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo. She completed her Ph.D. in Mathematics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in 2014, with a research stay at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her work focuses on the foundations of Quantum Theory and Contextuality and Nonlocality in Quantum Theory, with applications in Cryptography, Quantum Thermodynamics, and Many-body Systems. |
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Ugo Ancarani, Associate EditorUniversité de Lorraine, France Ugo received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge (UK). After a postdoctoral position at the University of Frankfurt and a Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, Ugo moved to Metz (France) in 1998 and worked as an assistant professor at the Université de Lorraine until 2013, when he became a full professor. His research involves a range of topics in atomic structure and in atomic and molecular collisions, with an emphasis on the three-body Coulomb problem. Ugo became an Associate Editor for PRA in 2019. |
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Franco Dalfovo, Associate EditorUniversity of Trento, Italy Franco received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Padova (Italy). He is a full professor at the University of Trento since 2005 and head of the local unit of “Istituto Nazionale di Ottica” of the Italian Research Council. His research group investigates a broad range of topics on Bose-Einstein condensates, cold atomic gases and quantum fluids. He joined APS in 2006 as a member of the Editorial Board of Physical Review A, and since 2007 is an Associate Editor. |
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Aurelien Dantan, Associate EditorAarhus University, Denmark Aurelien Dantan received his Ph.D. in physics from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France). After postdoctoral positions at Graduate School of Optics (France) and Aarhus University (Denmark) he became an Associate Professor at Aarhus University in 2013. His interests are within the area of optomechanics, quantum optics, photonics, and sensing. He was a member of the Editorial Board of Physical Review A (PRA) from 2022 to 2026 and joined PRA as an Associate Editor in 2026. |
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Gabriele De Chiara, Associate EditorUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Gabriele received his Ph.D. from Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy). He held a postdoctoral position in Trento (Italy) and the Juan de la Cierva Fellowship in Barcelona (Spain) before joining Queen's University Belfast (UK) as a Lecturer in 2011. In 2025, he moved back to Barcelona as an Associate Professor. His interests are within the area of quantum technologies, especially quantum thermodynamics and control. He became an Associate Editor in 2019. |
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Daniel Felinto, Associate EditorFederal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Daniel received his Ph.D. from the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil). After postdoctoral positions at University of São Paulo (Brazil) and Caltech (USA), he joined the Federal University of Pernambuco in 2006, where he is presently a full professor. His research involves a broad range of topics in quantum optics and atomic physics, with an emphasis on applications to the field of quantum information. He became an Associate Editor in 2019. |
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Nicolò Forcellini, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Nicolò completed his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Cambridge (UK). His main interests are in the fields of open and nonequilibrium quantum systems, topological phases, quantum simulation, and quantum computing. After working as a postdoctoral fellow (2021–2023) and as a research scientist (2023–2025) at the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences (China), he joined PRX Quantum and Physical Review A as an Associate Editor in 2025. |
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Davide Girolami, Associate EditorPolitecnico di Torino, Italy Davide is an Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham. He was then a postdoc at National University of Singapore, University of Oxford (EPSRC Fellow), and Los Alamos National Laboratory (Director's and J.R. Oppenheimer Distinguished Fellow). He works in quantum information theory, investigating quantum resources for information processing. He became an Associate Editor in 2022. |
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Scott Glancy, Associate EditorNational Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Scott obtained his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana (USA) in 2004. After finishing his Ph.D., he became a postdoc and then a permanent physics researcher for the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado (USA). He is also a lecturer in the University of Colorado physics department. His research interests include quantum information theory, statistical analysis of quantum experiments, and foundations of quantum theory. |
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Erin Knutson, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Erin obtained her Ph.D. in physics from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana (USA). Her main interests are in the fields of nonlinear and quantum optics, with an emphasis on applications in optical communications. After a postdoctoral position at Santa Clara University in California, she joined Physical Review A as an Associate Editor in 2021. |
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Daniel Leykam, Associate EditorSingapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Daniel obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the Australian National University. After postdoctoral positions at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), the Institute for Basic Science (Korea), and the National University of Singapore, he joined Singapore University of Technology and Design as an Associate Professor in 2024. His research interests include nonlinear optics, topological photonics, and quantum photonics. Starting in 2020, Daniel served as a Board member for Physical Review A, and became an Associate Editor in 2021. |
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Bill Munro, Associate EditorOkinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Bill received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Waikato (NZ) in 1995. Having spent over twenty years of his career as an industrial research scientist, holding senior positions within both HP Labs and NTT Basic Research Laboratories, he joined the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in 2023. He served as a Board member of PRA from 2013 to 2018 and became an Associate Editor of PRA and consulting editor of PRX in 2019. His main research interests are focused in quantum optics, quantum networking, quantum computation and hybrid quantum systems. Bill is also an APS, Optica, and IOP Fellow. |
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Frank Narducci, Associate EditorNaval Postgraduate School, USA Frank received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Rochester, NY. From 1996 until 2017, he was the head of a research team working on the development of sensors based on quantum optics and atomic physics for the Naval Air Systems Command, where he eventually became a NAVAIR Fellow and the Senior Science and Technology Manager (SSTM) for Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) for the Navy. He is now an associate professor of physics at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is currently working on magnetometers, accelerometers, and gyroscopes based on cold atom interferometers. For more than 15 years, he has contributed as an Associate Editor for Physical Review A and an Adjunct Associate Editor for Physical Review Letters. |
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Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens, Associate EditorUniversity of Geneva, Switzerland Alejandro obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (Barcelona, Spain), after completing the Perimeter Scholars International program at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo, Canada). He has held postdoctoral positions at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and he currently is an SNSF Fellow at the University of Geneva. His research encompasses quantum correlations (especially in quantum networks), quantum foundations, tensor networks, and machine learning. |
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Ángel Rivas, Associate EditorUniversidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Ángel obtained his Ph.D. in physics from Universität Ulm (Germany). After holding postdoctoral positions in Spain, he joined Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He served on the Editorial Board of Physical Review A from 2023 to 2026. His research interests lie at the interface of quantum optics and quantum information, with a particular focus on open quantum systems and quantum thermodynamics. |
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Peng Xue, Associate EditorSoutheast University, China Peng received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China. After postdoctoral positions at the University of Innsbruck in Austria and the University of Calgary in Canada, she joined the Southeast University in China in 2009, where she currently holds a chair professorship. Her research involves a range of topics in quantum information, quantum optics, and non-Hermitian physics. She was a member of the Editorial Board of Physical Review A (PRA) from 2022 to 2026 and joined PRA as an Associate Editor in 2026. |
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Xiangyu Yin, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Xiangyu received his B.Sc. from Nanjing University (China) and his Ph.D. from Washington State University. He did postdoctoral research at the Ohio State University and Swinburne University of Technology (Australia). He joined Physical Review A as an Associate Editor in 2019. His expertise is in few-body physics of ultracold atomic gases. |
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Aonan Zhang, Associate EditorUniversity of Oxford, United Kingdom Aonan is a UKRI Guarantee Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Physics at University of Oxford. He obtained his Ph.D. from Nanjing University, and then worked as a research associate at Imperial College London (2022–2024). His research interests span photonic quantum information, quantum machine learning and quantum metrology, particularly at the interface of quantum physics, optics, and information science. |
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Jill M. Gargano, Senior Assistant EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Jill began her career with APS in 1988 in the production group and transitioned to the Editorial Department in 1994. She has served as an Assistant Editor for various journals in the Physical Review family, and joined Physical Review A and Physical Review E in 2000. Her responsibilities include technical editing, communications with the production group, and various review-process duties. Jill holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English from Stony Brook University. |
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Terre Arena, Assistant EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Terre holds a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Maryland. After working in the legal field for 20 years, she began her career as a Journal Services Assistant in the Ridge Editorial Office in 2001. Shortly thereafter, she was promoted into the Editorial Department and now works as an Assistant Editor for Physical Review A and Physical Review E. |
Andrea Bertoldi, Institut d’Optique Graduate School, France, Atom Interferometry, Cavity and Waveguide QED with Ultracold Atoms
Nicholas Chancellor, Durham University, United Kingdom, Quantum Computing and Quantum Algorithms
Adolfo Del Campo, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Quantum Information, Dynamics and Control, Phase Transitions, Chaos and Integrability
Vladimir Konotop, University of Lisbon, Portugal, Matter Waves, Nonlinear Optics, Soliton Theory, and non-Hermitian Systems
LeongChuan Kwek, Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Quantum Information, Quantum Cryptography
Hoi-Kwong Lo, University of Toronto, Canada, Quantum Cryptography
Anna Niggas, TU Wien, Austria*
Matteo Paris, University of Milan, Italy, Quantum Optics, Quantum Information, Open Quantum Systems, and Quantum Walks
Janne Ruostekoski, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, Quantum Optics, Cold Atomic Gases, Light-Matter Interactions
Ingrid Strandberg, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden*
Jiahui Wang, Stanford University, USA*
Aaron William Young, Harvard University, USA*
* Early Career Board Member
Federica Agostini, University of Paris-Saclay, France, Chemical Physics
Alessandro Alberucci, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany, Photonics, Nonlinear Optics, Light-Matter Interaction
Johannes Feist, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, Attosecond Physics, Quantum Nanophotonics, Molecular Polaritonics
Itay Hen, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA, Quantum Computing, Quantum Algorithms
Mingyu Kang, University of California, Berkeley, USA*
Florian Mintert, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, Quantum Optics and Quantum Information
Giovanna Morigi, Saarland University, Germany, Theoretical Quantum Optics, Open Quantum Systems, Ultracold Atoms
Gregory Quiroz, Johns Hopkins University, USA, Quantum Control and Sensing, Quantum Algorithm Design
Akbar Salam, Wake Forest University, USA, Molecular and Macroscopic QED, Intermolecular Interactions, Optical Activity and Molecular Chirality
Rafael Wagner, Ulm University, Germany*
Jiajun Wang, Fudan University, China*
Li You, Tsinghua University, China, Atomic Quantum Gases, Quantum Optics, and Quantum Computation
* Early Career Board Member
Sahel Ashhab, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, Superconducting Circuits, Adiabatic Quantum Computing, Quantum Simulation
Jessica Bavaresco, Sorbonne University, France, Quantum information; Quantum correlations; Foundations of quantum computing
Alexander Cerjan, Sandia National Laboratories, USA, Photonic systems, Topological Photonics, and Computational Photonics
Yvonne Y. Gao, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Bosonic cavity QED, Quantum light-matter interaction, Quantum information
Jacinda Ginges, The University of Queensland, Australia, Precision Atomic Theory, Atomic Structure, and Tests of Fundamental Physics in Atoms and Molecules
Gleb Gribakin, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom, Theoretical Atomic & Molecular Physics, Positron Interactions with Atoms & Molecules
Bing He, Multidisciplinary Center for Physics, Universidad Mayor, Chile, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics, Optomechanics, Photonic Quantum Information Processing
Dong E. Liu, Tsinghua University, China, Quantum computer architecture; Characterization and benchmarking of quantum noise; Quantum error mitigation
Giovanni Modugno, Florence, Italy, Ultracold atoms and molecules
Tomoki Ozawa, Tohoku University, Japan, Ultracold Atoms, Quantum Simulation, Topological Physics in Atoms and Photons
Angel Rivas, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain,Open Quantum Systems, Quantum Information, Quantum Optics
Nina Rohringer, University of Hamburg, Germany, Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields
