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.
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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Manolis Antonoyiannakis, Senior Associate Editor and Bibliostatistics AnalystAmerican Physical Society, USA Manolis received his Ph.D. from Imperial College London for work on electromagnetic forces in photonic crystals. He began his editorial career at Crete University Press before joining APS in 2003, working in Physical Review B, Physical Review Letters, and Physical Review X. He also spent an 18-month sabbatical as scientific advisor to the President of the European Research Council. Since 2026, he has split his time between Physical Review Applied and Physical Review B. Manolis also serves as the APS bibliostatistics analyst, with interests in research assessment, statistically principled indicators, and peer review dynamics. |
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Jerry I. Dadap, Jr., Associate EditorUniversity of British Columbia, Canada Jerry received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin. Following his postdoctoral research at Columbia University and a brief period in the telecom industry, where he worked on optical switching via micro-electromechanical systems, he returned to Columbia as a research scientist. He later moved to the University of British Columbia, where he now serves as a senior research scientist. His research focuses on the electronic structure and optical properties of 2D materials, surfaces, and strongly correlated systems, as well as nonlinear optics, integrated photonics, and ultrafast phenomena. He served as an Associate Editor for Optics Express from 2011 to 2015 and is currently an Associate Editor for Physical Review B (since 2015), Physical Review Letters (since 2024) and Physical Review Applied (since 2026). |
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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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Faezeh Kimiaee-Asadi, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, Canada Faezeh received her Ph.D. in theoretical quantum physics from the University of Calgary in 2020. She continued there as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Quantum Science and Technology. Her research interests include quantum optics and quantum computation, with a particular focus on designing quantum networks. Faezeh is also an Associate Editor for PRApplied and joined APS in 2024. |
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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, M.Sc. (with highest distinction) from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2016, and B.Sc. 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 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has received numerous awards, including the 2025 European Physical Society Fresnel Prize and 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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Igor Aharonovich, Quantum Emitters, Nanophotonics, Defects in Two-Dimensional MaterialsUniversity of Technology Sydney, Australia Igor Aharonovich is a Professor in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at UTS and received his B.Sc. (2005) and M.Sc. (2007) in Materials Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne (2010). Igor has received several international awards including the Pawsey Medal (2017), the IEEE Photonics Young Investigator Award (2016) and in 2020 he was the recipient of the Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science from Materials Research Society. In 2021, he became a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA), and in 2024 elected as a fellow of SPIE. Igor investigates optically active defects in solids, with the aim of identifying a new generation of ultra-bright solid state quantum emitters. |
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Hatice Altug, Biomedical Imaging and Sensing, NanophotonicsEcole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland Hatice Altug is full professor at Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (Switzerland), School of Engineering. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 2007. Her research is focused in the application of nanophotonics for life sciences and biomedical fields with the development of next-generation biosensing, spectroscopy and bioimaging systems. Prof. Altug received numerous awards including European Physical Society Emmy Noether Distinction, Optica (formerly OSA) Adolph Lomb Medal, U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award. She is a fellow of Optical Society of America and senior member of SPIE. |
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Alexandra Boltasseva, Metamaterials, Nanophotonics, Machine LearningPurdue University, USA Alexandra Boltasseva is a Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Technical University of Denmark, DTU in 2004. Boltasseva specializes in nanophotonics, quantum photonics, and optical materials. She is the 2023 recipient of the R.W. Wood Prize (Optica, formerly Optical Society of America), 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, 2018 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists Finalist and received the 2013 Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonics Society Young Investigator Award, 2013 Materials Research Society (MRS) Outstanding Young Investigator Award, the 2011 MIT Technology Review Top Young Innovator (TR35), the 2009 Young Researcher Award in Advanced Optical Technologies from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and the Young Elite-Researcher Award from the Danish Council for Independent Research (2008). She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), MRS, IEEE, Optica, and SPIE. She served on MRS Board of Directors and is former Editor-in-Chief for Optical Materials Express journal. |
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Andrew N. Cleland, Quantum Information Science, Superconducting Circuits, Acoustics and MechanicsUniversity of Chicago, USA Andrew N. Cleland holds the John A. MacLean Sr. Chair in the Pritzker School of Engineering at the University of Chicago, where he works on the experimental development of superconducting qubits and quantum acoustics. His group made the first demonstration of a mechanical system cooled to its quantum ground state; the acoustic Hong-Ou-Mandel effect; and a scalable superconducting qubit operating at the quantum error-correction threshold. He was awarded the 2025 Olli V. Lounasmaa Memorial Prize, a 2024 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow, and a 2022 Fulbright Distinguished Chair. He served in the chair line for the American Physical Society – Division of Quantum Information from 2019-2023. |
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Aashish Clerk, Quantum Optics, Condensed Matter PhysicsUniversity of Chicago, USA Aashish Clerk is a theoretical physicist and Professor in the Institute of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. His group's research is at the intersection of quantum optics, condensed matter physics and quantum information. A general theme is the physics of driven-dissipative quantum systems, with an emphasis on engineered quantum systems such as superconducting circuits and optomechanical cavities. He is a past recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Rutherford Memorial Medal of the Royal Society of Canada, and the E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship of Canada's National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Aashish previously served on the Editorial Board of Physical Review X. |
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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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John S. Ho, Wireless Technology, Optoelectronics, BioelectronicsNational University of Singapore, Singapore John Ho is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore. His research lies at the intersection of bioelectronics, sensors, and wearable technologies. He is currently on leave from academia and working at Meta Reality Labs, where he focuses on sensor systems and machine learning to digitally capture human behavior. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2015 as a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow. He has been recognized by the MIT Technology Review’s TR35 Asia and Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia lists. |
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Boubacar Kanté, Metamaterials, Photonics, OptoelectronicsUniversity of California, Berkeley, USA Boubacar Kanté is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley; a faculty scientist at the Materials Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and co-Director of the Berkeley Emerging Technology Research Center. He is a Fellow of Optica and a senior member of IEEE, as well as a 2021 Bakar Fellow and a 2020 Moore Inventor Fellow. Among numerous honors, Boubacar has received the 2024 Bakar Prize, the 2017 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and the 2016 National Science Foundation Career Award. His research interests include classical and quantum wave-matter interaction and optoelectronics. |
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Hongkun Park, Chemical Physics, Nanotechnology, Plasmonics, BioelectronicsHarvard University, USA Hongkun Park is the Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Harvard University, and a member of the Harvard Quantum Science and Engineering Graduate Program. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. His current research explores nanoscale electrical, optical, and plasmonic devices operating on quantum mechanical principles; nano- and microelectronic tools that interface with living cells and tissues; and ultrasensitive magnetic, electric, and temperature sensors based on diamond color centers. His many honors include the Ho-Am Prize in Science and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
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Barry Sanders, Quantum Information Science, Quantum OpticsUniversity of Calgary, Canada Barry Sanders is a professor in physics and Scientific Director of the innovation ecosytem "Quantum City" at the University of Calgary. He holds two Diplomas and a D.Sc. from Imperial College London, a Ph.D. from the University of London, fellowships with the American Physical Society, Optica, the UK Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Canada, and received the 2022 City of Calgary International Achievement Award. His research interests include quantum sensing and metrology, quantum and quantum-resilient communication, quantum computing, quantum optics, and business, policy and governance for emerging dual-use technologies including quantum technologies. |
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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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Vanessa Sih, Spintronics, Semiconductor PhysicsUniversity of Michigan USA Vanessa Sih is a Professor of Physics and the Director of the Applied Physics Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where her research group investigates electron and nuclear spin dynamics in semiconductors using optical pump-probe techniques. She received her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received the Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award in 2019, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award in 2012, and a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award in 2009. |
