American Physical Society, USA
Dario Corradini received his Ph.D. in computational physics from University Roma Tre, Italy. He performed research as a postdoc at Boston University, CNRS, Pierre and Marie Curie University and École Normale Supérieure (Paris). His research interests included theoretical statistical physics of complex liquids and ionic materials, as well as biological and environmental physics. Dario was an Associate Editor of PRX from 2015 to 2024. He joined PRE in 2024..
Duke University, USA
Patrick Charbonneau is Professor of Chemistry and Physics at Duke University. Originally from Montreal, he obtained his Ph.D. in chemical physics from Harvard University in 2006, and was then a Marie-Curie Fellow at Amolf, in Amsterdam, before moving to Durham in 2008. His research in soft matter and statistical physics combines theory and simulation to understand the glass problem and microphase formation. A science history enthusiast, he also pursues various projects on that theme, notably as a member of the Women in the History of Quantum Physics working group. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.
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Dirk Jan Bukman, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Dirk Jan received his Ph.D. in Statistical Physics from Leiden University (the Netherlands). After postdoctoral positions at Simon Fraser University, Cornell, and McGill he joined Physical Review A and Physical Review E in 2002. He has been the Managing Editor of Physical Review E since 2009. |
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Celia Anteneodo, Associate EditorPontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Celia Anteneodo is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). She obtained her Ph.D. in Physics from the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (Brazil), with a doctoral research stay at the University of Waterloo (Canada), and her degree in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). She was recognized as an APS Outstanding Referee in 2019 and served as an Advisory Editor for Physical Review E from 2020 to 2026. Her research interests include nonequilibrium phenomena, stochastic processes, and complex systems, with interdisciplinary applications. |
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Nuno Araújo, Associate EditorUniversity of Lisbon, Portugal Nuno Araújo is an Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon and a researcher at the Center for Theoretical and Computational Physics. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Minho, followed by postdoctoral research at ETH Zurich. His work focuses on non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and soft matter physics. |
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Emily S.C. Ching, Associate EditorChinese University of Hong Kong, China Emily S.C. Ching is currently a professor in the Department of Physics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1992. Her research interests lie in the general area of nonlinear complex systems including fluid turbulence and complex networks. She is a fellow and outstanding referee of the American Physical Society and a fellow of the Institute of Physics in the UK. She was awarded the Senior Research Fellowship by the Croucher Foundation and the Achievement in Asia Award by the Overseas Chinese Physics Association. |
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Ronald Dickman, Associate EditorUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Ronald Dickman has a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art (Hunter College, CUNY, 1974) and a Ph.D. in Physics (University of Texas at Austin, 1984). He was professor of physics at CUNY (1985-97) and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) (1999-2020). Author of over 180 papers on phase transitions, nonequilibrium steady states, and allied topics, he is a member of the Academia Brasileira de Ciências, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and has been an Associate Editor for PRE since 2006. Since retiring from UFMG he pursues digital painting and photography while continuing to perform research and teach as a volunteer. |
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Dibakar Ghosh, Associate EditorIndian Statistical Institute, India Dibakar Ghosh is a Professor in the Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in 2009, specializing in nonlinear dynamics and coupled oscillators, and earned his Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from the University of Calcutta. His research interests include synchronization, swarming, and complex networks, along with emerging areas such as evolutionary game theory, climate data analysis, statistical inference, stochastic systems, and time-varying and higher-order interactions in networks. He has published more than 250 research articles in reputed international journals and has made significant contributions to complex dynamical systems and network science. |
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Magnus Johansson, Associate EditorLinköping University, Sweden Magnus received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Linköping University in 1995. He then held research positions at the Technical University of Denmark, CEA-Saclay, the Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, and the Australian National University. In 2002, he became a faculty member at Linköping University. Magnus’s research interests include solitons and nonlinear waves, and localization in disordered and quasiperiodic systems. |
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Anupam Kundu, Associate EditorTata Institute of Fundamental Research, India Anupam Kundu is an Associate Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru, India. He earned his Ph.D. from the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, followed by postdoctoral research at the University of Paris and the Weizmann Institute of Science. He was a Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2018–2021). He was also the recipient of the 2024 N.S. Satya Murthy Memorial Award from the Indian Physics Association. His research focuses on understanding large-scale fluctuations in many-particle systems, fluctuating hydrodynamics, active systems, transport in low-dimensional systems, and stochastic processes. |
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Juan-José Liétor-Santos, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Juan José Liétor-Santos received his Ph.D. in physics from Georgia Institute of Technology. He was a visiting professor at Georgia Southern University from 2011 to 2013 and a postdoctoral associate at Emory University prior to joining the APS Editorial team in 2015. His editorial experience includes managing the peer review of research papers across a broad range of topics for titles including Physical Review A, Physical Review E, and Physical Review Applied. |
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Bruno Loureiro, Associate EditorCNRS and École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France Bruno Loureiro is a CNRS research scientist at the Computer Science department of École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris, working at the crossroads of machine learning and statistical physics. He holds a PhD degree in Physics from the University of Cambridge, and before moving to ENS held postdoctoral positions at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Institut de Physique Théorique (IPhT) in Paris. He is interested in Bayesian inference, theoretical machine learning and high-dimensional statistics more broadly. His research aims at understanding how data structure, optimization algorithms and architecture design come together for successful learning. |
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Ananya Mondal, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Ananya earned her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Houston, specializing in statistical and polymer physics. She went on to do postdoctoral research at Rice University’s Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, where she focused on machine learning-based predictions of large proteins. Her expertise includes biopolymers, active systems, molecular simulations, and structural biology. Ananya is also passionate about promoting women in physics through mentorship and outreach initiatives. She joined PRE in 2024. |
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Katie Newhall, Associate EditorUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Dr. Katie Newhall is a professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill working on a diverse set of interdisciplinary applied math problems. Prior to that, she was an experimental physicist in REU programs at UCLA and UMCP studying granular matter. She obtained an M.S. in engineering and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and completed postdoctoral work at New York University. Her research focuses on understanding large-scale and long-time dynamics of physical and biological systems through analysis and simulations of simple yet physically relevant models. The mathematical problems she works on also help to explain experimentally observable phenomena, exposing underlying mechanisms to intuitively explain the system’s behavior. |
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Filippo Radicchi, Associate EditorIndiana University, USA Filippo Radicchi is a professor at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University, as well as director of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research (CNetS). He obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from Constructor University Bremen. He received the “Ramón y Cajal” fellowship from the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain, the junior award from the Complex Systems Society, and the career award from the National Science Foundation. His research in Statistical Physics focuses on modeling structural and dynamical processes in complex networks. |
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Caterina Riconda, Associate EditorSorbonne University, France Caterina Riconda obtained her Ph.D. in 1996 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After one year fellowship at the Joint European Torus, UK, she was in Ecole Polytechnique, France with a TMR Marie Curie grant, and in CEA, Saclay. She’s currently full professor at the Laboratory for the Use of Intense Lasers (LULI) in Sorbonne University in Paris, and group leader of the theory group Theory, Interpretation, Plasmas and Simulations (TIPS). Her main research interests are theory and simulation of laser created plasma and QED effects in ultrahigh fields. She was appointed Jubilee Professor of Chalmers University, Sweden, in 2023. |
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Elena Sesé Sansa, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society Elena Sesé Sansa received her Ph.D. in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Her thesis was distinguished with the Physics doctoral thesis award. She was a visiting researcher at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Barcelona. Her expertise is in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and soft matter physics. She joined Physical Review E as an Associate Editor in 2023. |
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Margaret Foster, Senior Assistant EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Margaret received her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Following postdoctoral research at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland and at the University of Liverpool in England, she joined the Physics Department at the State University of New York in Stony Brook as an Assistant Professor. She then changed fields and did research in biological physics at the University of California in La Jolla, the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, and again at SUNY in Stony Brook. She has been an Editor for The Physical Review since 1992. |
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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 Editorial Office in 2001. Shortly thereafter, she was promoted into the Editorial Department and worked as Senior Editorial Assistant for PRA and PRE. Now, she works as the Assistant Editor. |
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Tommaso AlbertiIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy Tommaso Alberti earned his Ph.D. in Physics in 2017 from University of Calabria. He is a researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulanologia (Italy). His main research interests span over geosciences, space sciences, and complex systems, focusing on their spatio-temporal features. He integrates dynamical systems, statistics, data analysis and theoretical efforts to study weather extremes, climate change impacts (e.g., on aviation in Europe), turbulence in fluids and plasmas, and critical transitions in complex systems. He received the Vincenzo Ferraro Award (2018) and the EGU Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award (2022) for Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences. |
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Karen AlimTechnical University of Munich, Germany Karen Alim is a Professor at the School of Natural Sciences at the Technical University of Munich. She received her doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2010. She was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Harvard University and held an independent Max Planck Research Group Leader position at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen. Her research focuses on non-neural information processing in biological systems in particular uncovering the role of fluid flows and mechanics. |
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Marco Baity-JesiETH, Switzerland Marco Baity-Jesi is a Group Leader at Eawag, a research institute of the ETH domain in Switzerland. He completed a Ph.D. co-tutored by Sapienza University of Rome and Universidad Complutense de Madrid. After that, he was a postdoc at CEA Saclay in Paris, and at Columbia University in the City of New York. With a background in the theory of spin glasses and disordered systems, he uses statistical physics methods to understand how different sources of bias interact and influence the behavior of deep learning models. He also uses machine learning to study environmental problems, such as plankton ecology and ecotoxicology. |
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Marcia C. BarbosaUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Marcia Barbosa is professor of Physics at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She is an expert in complex systems, critical phenomena, physics applied to biological systems, supercooled water, and complex fluids. She obtained her Ph.D. at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and conducted research at University of Maryland. She has also held several leadership positions, such as Chair of the IUPAP Working Group on Women in Physics, Council Member of the American Physical Society, Director of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. She is currently the Rector of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. |
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Anne-Laure BianceUniversité Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, France Anne-Laure Biance is a CNRS fellow at Institut Lumière Matière, in University Lyon 1. She obtained a Ph.D. in 2004 in Paris, on the topic of Leidenfrost drops. She received in 2017 the CNRS bronze medals. Her current research interests involve interfacial hydrodynamics, in bubbles and drops, and nanofluidics, focusing mainly on electrokinetic coupled transport in highly confined liquids. |
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Luca BiferaleUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Luca Biferale (he/his/him) is a full Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, with a 30+ years of research experience on turbulence, dynamical systems, out-of-equilibrium statistical mechanics, using phenomenological and numerical modeling, including data-driven tools. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Rome Sapienza in 1983. He is the author of over 300 papers and was awarded two ERC Advanced Grants (NewTURB 2014-2019 and Smart-TURB 2021-2026). He has been an elected fellow of the American Physical Society (GSNP) in 2008 and of the Euromech in 2010. |
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Maura BrunettiUniversity of Geneva, Switzerland Maura Brunetti earned her Ph.D. in Physics in 2001 from the University of Pisa, Italy. After postdoctoral positions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and at the Geneva Observatory, she is currently a senior lecturer and researcher at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her main research interests include nonlinear dynamics, nonlinear waves, extreme events, critical transitions, climate dynamics, climate change, and numerical modeling. |
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Raffaella BurioniUniversity of Parma, Italy Raffaella Burioni is a professor of Theoretical Physics at the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science at the University of Parma and received her Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. She is an Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society and has chaired the Division of Nonlinear and Statistical Physics of the European Physical Society (EPS) since 2023. She works on equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics, with particular interest in complex graphs and networks, random walks and stochastic processes, and interdisciplinary applications of statistical physics, particularly to learning and neuroscience. |
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Daniel Campos MorenoAutonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Associate professor at the Physics Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He developed his Ph.D. on the analysis of transport and propagation processes on fractal structures. His main research interests are within the fields of random-walks, movement ecology, and in general on the biological and social applications of statistical physics. Currently he has more than 80 peer-reviewed publications in these areas, including a book (Stochastic Foundations in Movement Ecology) published in the Springer Series in Synergetics. He has also been recognised as an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society (2020). |
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Ramón Castañeda-PriegoDepartamento de Ingeniería Física, University of Guanajuato, Mexico Ramón Castañeda-Priego is a professor of Statistical Physics at the University of Guanajuato. He received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2003 from the Center of Research and Advanced Studies, Mexico, and worked as a post-doctoral fellow in physics at the University of Konstanz, Germany, before moving back to Mexico in 2004. Ramón leads the Soft Matter Theory Lab at the Physical Engineering Department. Over the last twenty-five years, he has worked on the thermodynamics, structural properties, transport phenomena, phase transitions, particle aggregation, effective interactions, physical gelation, dynamical arrest, and spontaneous and directed self-assembly of many-body systems, including colloids, polyelectrolytes, and proteins. |
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Olivier DauchotESPCI Paris, France Olivier Dauchot, is a CNRS Research Director, Head of the Gulliver laboratory, at ESPCI-Paris PSL. Olivier got his Ph.D. in Physics from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. His research focuses on Collective effects in Soft Matter, which he studies in model experimental systems. Developing collaborations with theoretical teams is one of his hallmarks. He presently concentrates on active matter, programmable matter, and glass forming systems. Previously, Olivier was leading the Group Instabilities and Turbulence in CEA-Saclay. At that time he brought significant contributions to the study of jamming and glassy dynamics, chaotic mixing, as well as to the understanding of transition to turbulence. Olivier is also leading the outreach activities of the University Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL). |
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Sebastian DeffnerUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Sebastian Deffner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He holds a doctorate from the University of Augsburg, Germany, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Deffner has extensive editorial experience: he was an inaugural member of the Editorial Board of PRX Quantum and currently serves as a Co-Editor at EPL (Europhysics Letters). At the APS, he is a member of the chair-line of the Division of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (DNSP). His research employs tools from statistical physics, open quantum dynamics, quantum information theory, quantum optics, quantum field theory, condensed matter theory, and optimal control theory to investigate the nonequilibrium properties of complex systems operating far from thermal equilibrium and their information-processing capabilities. |
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Marie-Christine FirpoÉcole Polytechnique, France Marie-Christine Firpo is a CNRS Research Director at the Laboratory of Plasma Physics at École Polytechnique, where she is part of the magnetic confinement fusion group. She holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Université de Provence. She completed her postdoctoral work at the University of Florence, supported by a Marie Curie fellowship, and subsequently served as a post-doctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research areas include long-range systems, statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, with a primary focus on hot plasma physics for fusion. |
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Rajesh GanapathyJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India Rajesh Ganapathy obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 2007. He later moved to the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid-State Physics, Cornell University, NY, USA, for a postdoctoral fellowship (2007-2009). Rajesh joined Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, in 2009, where he is currently a Professor. Rajesh is an experimental soft matter physicist with current interests spanning colloidal and granular systems, active matter, shear-induced transitions, soft matter on non-Euclidean surfaces, surface growth, and stochastic heat engines. |
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Todd GingrichNorthwestern University, USA Todd Gingrich is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, where his research focuses on nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, stochastic thermodynamics, dynamics of synthetic molecular motors, and tensor network methods for chemical kinetics. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, under the mentorship of Phill Geissler. Recognized for his contributions to theoretical chemistry, Todd has received prestigious honors, including the Sloan Fellowship, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, NSF CAREER award, and the inaugural Irwin Oppenheim Award for his work on Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations. |
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Kwang-Il GohKorea University, Korea Kwang-Il Goh is a Professor in the Department of Physics at Korea University, where he leads the Statistical Physics Lab. He received his Ph.D. in statistical physics from Seoul National University in 2004, followed by postdoctoral training at the University of Notre Dame. His main research interest is theoretical network science, in particular the statistical physics of network systems ranging from scale-free and multiplex networks to, more recently, hypergraphs. |
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John GoreeThe University of Iowa, USA John Goree is a Professor of Physics and Mechanical Engineering at The University of Iowa. He received his Ph.D. in Plasma Physics from Princeton University in 1985. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, which has also honored him as a Distinguished Lecturer in Plasma Physics. His research focuses on experimental fundamental plasma physics, including dusty plasmas, waves, and plasma diagnostics. Some of his experiments involve video microscopy of strongly coupled plasmas, enabling tests of statistical theories for liquids. |
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Georg GottwaldUniversity of Sydney, Australia Georg Gottwald obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 1999 from Monash University, Australia. After research positions at the Institut Non-Linéaire de Nice, France, and University of Surrey/Imperial, UK, he joined the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney where he is now a professor of mathematics. His main research area is dynamical systems, in particular model reduction and their stochastic properties. He has worked on stochastic model reduction, nonlinear time series analysis, data assimilation, machine learning, nonlinear waves, geophysical fluid dynamics, pattern formation and coupled oscillators. |
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Liesbeth M. C. JanssenEindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Liesbeth M. C. Janssen is an Associate Professor and Chair of Soft Matter and Biological Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology, where she leads the Non-Equilibrium Soft Matter group. Her research focuses on the theoretical physics of non-equilibrium soft matter, including glassy, active, and living materials, using statistical mechanics and simulations. She earned her Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry from Radboud University Nijmegen in 2012, followed by postdoctoral stays at Columbia University and Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf. For her work, Janssen was elected to the KNAW Young Academy and has received the Huygens Talent Scholarship, NWO Vidi Award, Unilever Research Prize, Rubicon Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, and the 2024 Athena Award. |
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Kyogo KawaguchiRIKEN, Japan Kyogo Kawaguchi is a RIKEN Hakubi Team Leader at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (CPR/BDR), and an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo's Institute for Physics of Intelligence, Department of Physics. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo's Department of Physics. His research interests encompass nonequilibrium/soft-matter physics, biophysics, and cell biology, with a particular focus on understanding complex biological phenomena through experiments as well as mathematical modeling. |
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Muthusamy LakshmananBharathidasan University, India Muthusamy Lakshmanan is a Professor of Eminence & National Science Chair at the Department of Nonlinear Dynamics, School of Physics at Bharathidasan University, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Madras University in 1974. He has published over 550 research articles and 10 books. He has received highest scientific awards of his country, including S. S. Bhatnagar prize and Vigyan Shri in Physics. He is an elected Fellow of all the three National Academies of Sciences of India and the Third World Academy of Sciences, and is a Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. His research interests include nonlinear dynamics, solitons, integrability, bifurcation and chaos, and complex systems. |
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Alenka MerteljJozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Alenka Mertelj is a Senior researcher at Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. She received her Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Ljubljana. She was awarded the Zois Certificate of Recognition for the discovery of ferromagnetic liquid-crystalline suspensions and the ILCS Mid-Career Award for the discovery of both magnetic and electric polar order in nematic phase. Her research is focused on experimental investigations of soft matter, in particular liquid crystals and magnetic colloids. |
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Izaak NeriKing's College London, United Kingdom Izaak Neri is a Senior Lecturer in the Disordered Systems Group of the Mathematics Department of King's College London. He received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the Catholic University of Leuven in 2010. His research interests are situated in statistical physics and complex systems, with a specific focus on the spectra of sparse random matrices, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, and phase separation in multicomponent systems. Izaak is also the 2024 recipient of the Irwin Oppenheim award. |
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Jayson PauloseUniversity of Oregon, USA Jayson Paulose is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Oregon. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 2013, followed by postdoctoral appointments at Leiden University and UC Berkeley. His research in soft matter and biophysics theory examines the interplay of geometry, topology, and randomness in nonequilibrium systems. He was named an Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society. |
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Dmitry E. PelinovskyMcMaster University, Canada Dmitry E. Pelinovsky is a professor of applied mathematics at McMaster University in Canada. He received M.Sc. in 1993 at Nizhny Novgorod State University (Russia) and Ph.D. in 1997 at Monash University (Australia). His research includes analysis and applications of nonlinear partial differential equations and lattice equations for propagation of nonlinear waves and coherent structures. He has made outstanding contributions to the theory of stability of nonlinear waves and dynamics of integrable systems by combining physical intuition, numerical explorations, and rigorous mathematical methods. His research has been recognized by the Humboldt Research Award in Germany (2020) and the chair-en-excellence award in France (2014) to name a few. He is the Editor-in-Chief for Studies in Applied Mathematics since 2020 and the Deputy Editor-in-Chief for Physica D since 2021. |
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Mason PorterUniversity of California, Los Angeles, USA Mason earned a B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from Caltech in 1998 and a Ph.D. from the Center for Applied Mathematics at Cornell University in 2002. He was a postdoctoral scholar at Georgia Tech, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and Caltech before joining the faculty in the Mathematical Institute at University of Oxford in 2007. In 2016, he moved to the Department of Mathematics at UCLA, where he is currently a professor. Mason has numerous research interests including network analysis, dynamical processes on networks, opinion dynamics, mathematical modeling of social systems, and topological data analysis. Mason is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, the American Physical Society, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. |
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Marisol RipollForschungszentrum Jülich, Germany Marisol Ripoll is a Senior Group Leader in the Theoretical Physics of Living Matter division at the Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich. She received her Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the Spanish Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in collaboration with Utrecht University. She joined Forschungszentrum Jülich as a postdoctoral fellow, where she was awarded a Young Investigators Group grant and later received her habilitation from the University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln). She has been named an Outstanding Referee by the European Physical Society on three occasions. Her research expertise includes soft and complex matter, hydrodynamics, flow behavior, phoresis, and active and intelligent matter. |
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Lea F. SantosUniversity of Connecticut, USA Lea F. Santos graduated with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of São Paulo. She received further postdoctoral training at Yale University, Michigan State University, and at Dartmouth College, before joining Yeshiva University, where she was a professor from 2007 to 2022. In 2022 she joined the Physics Department at the University of Connecticut. Her awards include the NSF CAREER Award, Outstanding Referee for the American Physical Society, and Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics. Her research focuses on theoretical many-body physics with emphasis on quantum chaos and thermalization. |
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Grégory SchehrCNRS Paris, France Grégory Schehr has been a CNRS Research Director at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique des Hautes Énergies (LPTHE), Sorbonne Université, since 2019. In 2023, he was also appointed Professeur Chargé de Cours at École Polytechnique. He earned his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 2003. He received the CNRS Bronze Medal for theoretical physics in 2010 and the Aniuta Winter-Klein Prize from the French Academy of Sciences in 2022. His research focuses on statistical physics, with particular emphasis on non-equilibrium dynamics, disordered systems, random matrix theory, and extreme value statistics. |
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Jörg SchumacherTU Ilmenau, Germany Jörg Schumacher is a Professor for Fluid Mechanics at the TU Ilmenau (Germany). He received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics in 1997 from the University of Potsdam. Jörg Schumacher was a Heisenberg Research Professor of the German Science Foundation from 2008 to 2013. He is a Fellow of APS since 2021 and received an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council in 2022. His research interests span a range from the fundamentals of turbulence and turbulent convection to reduced order modeling and quantum algorithms for fluid flows. These studies are based on supercomputer simulations and machine learning algorithms. |
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Jen SchwarzSyracuse University, USA Jen Schwarz is a Professor of Physics at Syracuse University. She earned her Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Harvard University in 2002. Her awards and honors include an NSF CAREER Award, an Isaac Newton Award for Transformative Ideas During the COVID-19 Pandemic from the U.S. Department of Defense, and election as a Fellow of the American Physical Society by the Division of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (DSNP). Her research interests focus on understanding how physical processes act as emergent learning processes in both classical and quantum systems, predicting chromatin-to-tissue scale organization in organoids and spheroids, and elucidating the nature of frictional rigidity transitions in particle packings. |
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Luis F. SeoaneNational Center for Biotechnology, CSIC, Spain Luis F. Seoane is a young tenured researcher at the National Center for Biotechnology, part of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), where he leads the Brain, Intelligence, Topology Laboratory (BIT-Lab). He obtained his Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from the Pompeu Fabra University in 2016, after which he was a postdoc at MIT and various CSIC institutions. His research focuses broadly on Complex Systems, with contributions to Darwinian evolution, econophysics, linguistics, or network science and, more recently, on Computational Neuroscience, where he particularly studies aspects of long-range brain plasticity, symmetry, and symmetry breaking. |
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Suraj ShankarUniversity of Michigan, USA Suraj Shankar is an Assistant Professor of Physics and LSA Collegiate Fellow at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Syracuse University and was previously a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. He is a recipient of the American Physical Society Dissertation award (2020) and the Early Career Scientist Prize in Statistical Physics (2022) from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. His research focuses on soft and active matter physics, and collective behavior in living systems. |
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Michele StarniniUniversitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Michele Starnini is a Ramon y Cajal fellow at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain. He received his Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Physics, at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Spain in 2014. His research interests include complex systems, network science and computational social science. |
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Kazumasa A. TakeuchiThe University of Tokyo, Japan Kazumasa A. Takeuchi is an associate professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Tokyo, holding a joint position at the Institute for Physics of Intelligence at the same university. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2010 and received several awards including the Young Scientist Prize from IUPAP C3 commission (2013) and the Commendation for Science and Technology (Young Scientists' Prize) by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan (2018). He is advancing experimental approaches to nonequilibrium statistical physics using soft and living matters. His expertise includes phase transitions, liquid crystal, bacteria, active matter, and nonlinear sciences. |
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Evelyn TangRice University, USA Evelyn Tang is an assistant professor in the Physics department and the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at Rice University. She did her Ph.D. on quantum systems and topological phases at MIT. She also holds an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge and a B.S. from Yale University. Her awards include the IUPAP Interdisciplinary Early Career Scientist Prize and Gates Cambridge scholarship. Evelyn develops physical theories that shed light on the striking non-equilibrium phenomena in living and active systems. In particular, she uses topology and geometry to predict robust dynamics in novel and accessible platforms. |
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Hugo TouchetteStellenbosch University, South Africa Hugo is professor in applied mathematics at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He received his Ph.D. in physics in 2004 from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and worked as a post-doctoral fellow and lecturer in physics and mathematics in the UK before moving to South Africa in 2013. His research area is the application of large deviation theory for the study of equilibrium and nonequilibrium systems. |
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Fangfu YeChinese Academy of Sciences, China Fangfu Ye received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007. He then held postdoctoral research positions at Kent State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2013, he joined the Institute of Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he is currently the Director of the Laboratory of Soft Matter and Biophysics. His research spans soft condensed matter physics, biological physics, and biomedical engineering, with a focus on active matter, the regulation of cellular behavior, and the physical properties of biological materials. |
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Jie ZhangShanghai Jiao Tong University, China Jie Zhang is a Professor of Physics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China, with a joint appointment at the Institute of Natural Sciences and the School of Physics and Astronomy. He earned his B.S. in Applied Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China and his Ph.D. in Soft Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Pittsburgh. He completed postdoctoral training in fluid mechanics and granular physics at Duke University and later at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research interests include glass and jamming transitions, plasticity of amorphous solids, statistical descriptions of granular materials, rheological behavior of glassy materials, acoustic modes and phonon transmission in amorphous solids, and active matter. |
