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Robert received his Ph.D. in theoretical high energy physics at the University of Michigan, and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Canadian National Lab TRIUMF. He joined PRL in 1994. Robert was elected an APS Fellow in 2013. You can follow him on Twitter @RobertGaristo.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
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Dr. Fernandes is a professor of physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he has been since 2024. Before that, he was a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Campinas, Brazil, in 2008 and held postdoctoral appointments at the Ames National Laboratory/Iowa State University and Columbia University/Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Fernandes is a condensed matter theorist interested in the collective behavior of interacting electrons in quantum materials, focusing on phenomena such as superconductivity, electronic liquid crystals, and unconventional magnetism. He is an APS Fellow, a Cottrell Scholar, and a Mercator Fellow.
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Abhishek Agarwal, Senior EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Abhishek received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 2005. He joined PRL in 2009 after postdoctoral research stints at the City College of the City University of New York and the Albert Einstein Institute for Gravitational Physics (Max Planck Institute) in Potsdam. Abhishek's research interests lie in the study of gauge and string theories. |
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Serena Dalena, Senior EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Serena obtained her Ph.D. in the physics of complex systems at the University of Calabria, Italy. Within a Marie Curie project, she worked as postdoctoral fellow at the University of Delaware. Her research involved the study of particle and field dynamics in space plasmas, such as the solar corona, the solar wind and the Earth's magnetosphere. Serena joined PRL in 2013. |
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Samindranath Mitra, Senior EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Samindranath (Sami) received his Ph.D. at Indiana University (Bloomington) in 1994, where he worked on the quantum Hall effect. After working on chemical physics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, Sami joined Physical Review Letters. His current portfolio includes 2D and layered systems, quantum materials, heterostructures, and transport properties in condensed matter. |
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Rocio Cortes, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Rocio received her Ph.D. in physics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Prior to joining the APS, she was a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Rocio has also worked at the Ultrafast Surface Dynamics Research Group at Freie Universität Berlin, and at the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Society, Germany where she was awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship. Rocio joined PRL in 2014. |
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Kevin Dusling, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Kevin received his Ph.D. at Stony Brook University in 2008. He came to PRL in 2013 following postdoctoral research positions at North Carolina State University and Brookhaven National Laboratory. His research interests lie in high energy QCD and the phenomenology of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. |
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Donavan Hall, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA After completing his Ph.D. at Louisiana State University in 1997, Donavan spent five years at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida primarily conducting magnetic measurements on strongly correlated materials. He joined PRL in 2002. |
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Stojan Rebic, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Stojan received his Ph.D. in theoretical quantum optics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2002. He held positions at the University of Camerino, Italy, and Macquarie University, and Australian National University, in Australia before joining PRL in 2012. |
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Alessandro Villar, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Alessandro S. Villar received his Ph.D. from the University of São Paulo (Brazil). After a first postdoctoral term at the University of Innsbruck (Austria), he worked at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (Germany) as a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow. He held the position of assistant professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil). In 2015, Alessandro joined PRX as an Associate Editor, before moving to PRL in 2018. His expertise is in quantum-information research and quantum optics. |
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Paul T. Baker, Associate EditorWidener University, USA Paul T. Baker is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Widener University. He received his doctoral degree in 2013 from Montana State University, working on gravitational wave detection with initial LIGO. Recently, his work focuses on detecting and characterizing gravitational waves with pulsar timing arrays. |
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Roberta Caruso, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Roberta received her Ph.D. in 2018 from University of Naples Federico II, where she worked on the transport characterization of unconventional Josephson devices. She remained at the University of Naples until 2020, focusing on the transport properties of 2DEG interfaces. She then moved to Brookhaven National Laboratory to work on cuprate superconductors. After a short appointment as Associate Editor at Nature Communications, she joined PRL and PRB in 2024. |
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Zhuoyu Chen, Associate EditorSouthern University of Science and Technology, China Zhuoyu Chen is an associate professor at Southern University of Science and Technology. He received his B.S. degree in Mathematics and Physics from Tsinghua University in 2012 and his Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 2018. He worked as a postdoc at Stanford University and SLAC National Laboratory from 2018 to 2022. Combining oxide thin film epitaxy, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), and low-temperature transport techniques, he searches for new high-temperature superconductors and studies the underlying mechanisms. |
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Agnese Curatolo, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Agnese obtained her Ph.D. at Université Paris-Diderot in 2017. Before joining PRL in 2021, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, studying self-assembly in complex systems and soft matter. |
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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) and Physical Review Letters (since 2024). |
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R. Cameron Dennis, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Cam obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Oregon in 2021. Before joining PRL in 2025, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and Syracuse University where he primarily studied glasses, jamming, and yielding. |
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Olga Dudko, Associate EditorUniversity of California, San Diego, USA Olga is a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. She obtained her Ph.D. (2001) in theoretical physics from B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Ukraine. After postdoctoral appointments at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and at the National Institutes of Health, USA, she joined the physics faculty at UC San Diego in 2007. Her current research covers a range of problems in theoretical biophysics and is animated by the notion that deep physics-based conceptual approaches can encompass living-system complexity. Olga has been an Associate Editor at PRL since 2019. |
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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 for Physical Review Letters in 2025 and has served as an Associate Editor for Physical Review A since 2022. |
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Nikhil Karthik, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Nikhil received his Ph.D. in theoretical high-energy physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. Prior to joining PRL in 2022, he held postdoctoral research positions at Florida International University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Jefferson Lab. His research interests concern nonperturbative aspects of the strong QCD interaction. |
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Faezeh Kimiaee-Asadi, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA 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 joined PRL in 2024. |
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Tianhan Liu, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Tianhan received her Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from Florida State University in 2021. Prior to joining Physical Review Letters and Physical Review Materials in 2024, she worked as a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on experimental studies of quantum transport in hybrid materials, interfaces, and devices. |
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Nicholas Loutrel, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Nicholas obtained his Ph.D. in physics at Montana State University in 2018. Prior to joining Physical Review Letters, he held postdoctoral research positions at Princeton University, Sapienza University of Rome, and the University of Milano-Bicocca. His research interests focus on gravitational waves, black holes, and neutron stars. He joined Physical Review Letters in 2026. |
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Rajesh Malla, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Rajesh received his Ph.D. in quantum physics from University of Utah. Prior to joining Physical Review Letters in 2025, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory. His research focuses on driven quantum systems, nonequilibrium dynamics, quantum algorithms, and quantum metrology. |
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Mauro Mugnai, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Mauro obtained a Laurea Specialistica in physics from the Sapienza University of Rome in 2007. He then received a Ph.D. in chemistry from The University of Texas at Austin in 2014. Next, he was first a postdoc at the University of Maryland, College Park and at The University of Texas at Austin, and then an ISMSM-NIST Fellow and postdoc at Georgetown University. His research covered various topics in computational biophysics and soft matter. Mauro joined PRL in 2026.. |
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Martin Rodriguez-Vega, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Martin received his Ph.D. in physics at William & Mary, Virginia, in 2016. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Indiana University, the University of Texas at Austin & Northeastern University, and later as a Director's postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research interests lie in nonequilibrium and topological aspects of condensed matter systems. He joined PRL in 2021. |
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Sharmila Shirodkar, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Sharmila received her Ph.D. in computational materials science from the Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, India in 2014. Prior to joining PRL in 2023, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University and Rice University, and later as a research scientist at Howard University. Her research interests include analytical and theoretical modeling of nano-materials from the surface to bulk using first-principles calculations. |
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Armin Tavakoli, Associate EditorLund University, Sweden Armin received his Ph.D. from the University of Geneva in 2020. He then held a postdoctoral position at the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna and the Vienna University of Technology. In 2023 he became assistant professor at Lund University. His research focus is quantum correlations, quantum communication and the foundations of quantum theory. Armin joined Physical Review Letters in 2025. |
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Xiao Yuan, Associate EditorPeking University, China Xiao Yuan is an Assistant Professor at Peking University. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Tsinghua University in 2016 and worked as a postdoc at University of Science and Technology China, Oxford University, and Stanford University from 2017 to 2020. His current research interests focus on quantum algorithm design, quantum advantage, and quantum computing applications. |
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Hugues Chaté, Consulting EditorCEA - Saclay, France Hugues received his Ph.D. at Université Pierre & Marie Curie (now Sorbonne Université) and joined the condensed matter physics department at CEA - Saclay, where he is now a Research Director. His research covers a wide range of topics in nonlinear dynamics and statistical physics. He was PRL’s Lead Editor from 2016 to 2025, and is now the APS journals’ Lead Editorial Strategist for China & East Asia. |
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Valerio Lucarini, Consulting EditorUniversity of Reading , UK Valerio Lucarini is professor of statistical mechanics at the University of Reading (UK), where he also directs the Centre for the Mathematics of Planet Earth. His main research interests are non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, extreme events, large deviation theory, critical transitions, climate dynamics, climate change, numerical modelling, data-driven methods. He is recipient of the 2010 EGU Arne Richter Prize, of the 2018 LMS Whitehead Prize, of the 2020 EGU L.-F. Richardson Medal, of the 2022 SIAM Mathematics of Planet Earth Prize, and has delivered the 2021 AGU Ed Lorenz Lecture. He is a member of Academia Europaea, and fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. |
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Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Consulting EditorUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, USA Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is a Professor and the Vera Rubin Presidential Chair of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). He is a theoretical astrophysicist with interests in a wide variety of problems, including black holes, gravitational wave sources, plasma astrophysics, and galactic chemical evolution. After studying at the University of Cambridge, he was the John Bahcall Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Since joining the UCSC faculty in 2007, Ramirez-Ruiz has won a number of awards for his research, including a Packard Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, the Niels Bohr Professorship, the Edward A. Bouchet Award (APS) and the HEAD Mid-Career Prize (AAS). He is a fellow of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, American Physical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
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Tracy Slatyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Juan José García-Ripoll, Instituto de Física Fundamental (CSIC), Spain
Pieter Kok, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Erich J. Mueller, Cornell University, USA
Meera Parish, Monash University, Australia
Mikael C. Rechtsman, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Gerhard Rempe, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany
Armin Scrinzi, Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany
Philipp Treutlein, University of Basel, Switzerland
Susanne Yelin, Harvard University, USA
Linda Young, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Naama Brenner, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Michael Murrell, Yale University, USA
Tatyana Olegivna Sharpee, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
Cecile Sykes, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
J. I. Juaristi, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain
Sabine Maier, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany
Katarzyna Pernal, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Antoine Georges, College de France, France
Alexander Altland, University of Cologne, Germany
Jens H. Bardarson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Claudio Cazorla, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Yanfeng Chen, Nanjing University, China
Gregory A. Fiete, Northeastern University, USA
Emanuel Gull, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Jacob W. Linder, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Arun Paramekanti, University of Toronto, Canada
Stephan Rachel, University of Melbourne, Australia
Patrick Rinke, Aalto University, Finland
Filip Ronning, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Nitin Samarth, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Efrat Shimshoni, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Mário G. Silveirinha, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Jairo Sinova, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
Qing-Feng Sun, Peking University, China
Ronny Thomale, University of Würzburg
Carsten Timm, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Päivi Törmä, Aalto University, Finland
Emanuel Tutuc, University of Texas, USA
Peng Xiong, Florida State University USA
Paulo E. Arratia, University of Pensylvania, USA
Laurence Ramos, University of Montpellier, France
Michael Wilczek, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Ke-Qing Xia, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Bianca Dittrich, Perimeter Institute, Canada
B. S. Sathyaprakash, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
W.G. Unruh, University of British Columbia, Canada
Fabrice Pierre Laussy, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC), Spain
Nicholas Barrett, CEA Saclay, France
Shuai Dong, Southeast University, China
Elif Ertekin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Zheng-you Liu, Wuhan University, China
Inna Ponomareva, University of South Florida, USA
Ralf Peter Averbeck, GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Germany
Sonia Bacca, Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, Germany
Hannah Elfner, GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy-Ion Research, Germany
Kenji Fukushima, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Peter Petreczky, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Darek Seweryniak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Michiharu Wada, KEK, Japan
Nicole Bell, University of Melbourne, Australia
Markus Diehl, DESY, Germany
Robert Craig Group, University of Virginia, USA
Daniel N. Kabat, Lehman College, USA
Tamás G. Kovács, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
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Pierre Gentine, Columbia Univrsity, USA
Paul Cassak, Clemson University, USA
Dan Dubin, University of California, San Diego, USA
William W. Heidbrink, University of California, Irvine, USA
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Minping Wan, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Matthew Zepf, Helmholtz Institut Jena, Germany
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George A. Floudas, University of Ioannina, Greece
Marina Guenza, University of Oregon, USA
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Hyunchul Nha, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
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Barbara Kraus, Technical University of Munich, Germany
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Xiongfeng Ma, Tsinghua University, China
Frank Cichos, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Luca Cipelletti, Université de Montpellier, France
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Felipe Pacheco-Vázquez, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico
Julia M. Yeomans, Clarendon Laboratory, United Kingdom
Alain Barrat, Centre de Physique Théorique, France
Jordan Horowitz, University of Michigan, USA
Sosuke Ito, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Renaud Lambiotte, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Ralf Metzler, University of Potsdam, Germany
Arkady S. Pikovsky, Universität Potsdam, Germany
Silvina Ponce Dawson, FCEN-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Heiko Rieger, Saarland University, Germany
Sanjib Sabhapandit, Raman Research Institute, India
Julien Tailleur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Yuhai Tu, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Pan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Yuto AshidaThe University of Tokyo, Japan Yuto is an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his PhD in theoretical physics in 2019 from the University of Tokyo. Following his doctoral studies, he held a research associate position at the Department of Applied Physics before taking up his current faculty position at the Department of Physics. His research interests span various areas of physics, including quantum many-body physics, quantum optics & information, and nonequilibrium open systems. |
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Sayantika BhowalIndian Institute of Technology Bombay, India Sayantika is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (Mumbai, India). She obtained her PhD in theoretical physics in 2017 from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India. After postdoctoral appointments at the University of Missouri (USA) and ETH Zurich (Switzerland), she joined the Condensed Matter Theory group in the Department of Physics at IIT Bombay. Her research focuses on condensed matter theory, exploring topics such as magnetism, multiferroics, magnetoelectric effects, and topological phenomena, including charge, spin, and orbital Hall transport in bulk and low-dimensional systems. |
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Benedetta FlebusBoston College, USA Benedetta is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Boston College. She earned her PhD in theoretical physics in 2017 from Utrecht University, followed by postdoctoral appointments at UCLA and the University of Texas at Austin. Her research spans a broad range of topics, including magnetic and phononic systems, with a current focus on the intersection of condensed matter physics, quantum optics, and quantum information science. |
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Nahuel FreitasIFIBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina Nahuel is a researcher at the Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires (Argentina). He obtained his PhD in theoretical physics in 2017 from the University of Buenos Aires, after which he held a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Luxembourg. His research covers fundamental aspects of nonequilibrium and stochastic thermodynamics, as well as applications to electronic and chemical systems. |
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Jack HareElectrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, USA Jack is an assistant Professor at Cornell University in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He obtained his PhD in experimental plasma physics at Imperial College London in 2017. After postdoctoral appointments at Imperial College and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany, he joined the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT in 2021, and moved to Cornell in 2025. His research interests cover high-energy-density laboratory astrophysics driven by pulsed-power, including magnetic reconnection and magnetized turbulence, and the physics of pulsed magnetic fusion. |
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Jose LadoAalto University, Finland Jose is an Assistant Professor at Aalto University in Finland. He did his PhD work at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Braga, Portugal, between 2013-2016. In 2017 he moved to ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he was a postdoctoral ETH Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics. In 2019 he joined Aalto University, in Finland, as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Physics, where he leads the Correlated Quantum Materials group. His research focuses on the theoretical engineering of quantum materials featuring emergent collective quantum macroscopic states, for which his group brings together theoretical material science, quantum many-body physics, and machine learning for quantum materials. |
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Shirley LiUniversity of California, Irvine, USA Shirley obtained her PhD from the Ohio State University in 2017. She was a postdoctoral researcher at SLAC National Lab between 2017–2020 and at Fermilab between 2020–2022. She joined the UC Irvine Physics Department in the summer of 2022. Shirley’s research goal is to understand how elementary particles behave, what their masses are, how they interact, etc. Her recent research focuses on neutrinos, one of the least understood elementary particles. Much of her recent work has been exploring what we can learn about neutrinos and physics beyond the Standard Model from current and future experiments. |
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Abigail PlummerBoston University, USA Abigail is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. She obtained her PhD in physics in 2021 from Harvard University and completed postdoctoral training at the Princeton Center for Complex Materials. Abigail’s research covers topics related to the mechanics of soft matter, focusing on growth & swelling, instabilities, and phase transitions. |
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Pierre RoncerayCNRS – Aix-Marseille Université, France Pierre is a CNRS scientist at Aix-Marseille Université (Marseille, France). He obtained his PhD in theoretical biophysics in 2016 from Université Paris Saclay. After a postdoctoral appointment at Princeton University (USA), he joined the Turing Centre for Living Systems and CINaM in 2021 as principal investigator. His research lies at the interface between statistical physics, biology and soft matter, with a focus on the development of inference methods for stochastic processes. |
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Thomas ScaffidiUniversity of California, Irvine, USA Thomas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UC Irvine. He received his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Oxford in 2016. Before moving to UCI, Thomas was a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley from 2016 to 2019, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto from 2019 to 2022. His research covers a broad range of topics in the theory of many-body quantum dynamics and its manifestations in quantum materials. |
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Katelin SchutzMcGill University, Canada Katelin is an assistant professor at McGill University, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Astrophysics Beyond the Standard Model. Her interests are at the intersection of astrophysics, particle physics and cosmology, particularly in understanding the composition and behavior of dark matter and other extensions of the Standard Model. Until 2021, she was a Pappalardo Fellow and NASA Einstein Fellow in the MIT Department of Physics. She received her PhD in physics from UC Berkeley in 2019 with the support of fellowships from the Hertz Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Her dissertation, "Searching for the invisible: how dark forces shape our Universe" was supervised by Hitoshi Murayama and won the American Physical Society Sakurai Dissertation Award. |
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Michael te VrügtJohannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany Michael is assistant professor of physics at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. He obtained his PhD in theoretical physics in 2022 and his PhD in philosophy of science in 2023, both from the University of Münster. After that, Michael worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge in the UK. His research covers a broad range of topics in statistical mechanics, with a focus on soft and active matter, biological physics, nonequilibrium systems, and philosophy of physics. |
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Yongfeng ZhaoSoochow University, Suzhou, China Yongfeng is an associate professor at Soochow University (Suzhou, China). He obtained his PhD in physics in 2016 from the University of Hong Kong. Then he worked as postdoctoral researcher at Université Paris Diderot (now Université Paris-Cité) in 2017 and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2019. He joined the Center for Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Interdisciplinary Research and the School of Physical Science and Technology at Soochow University in 2021. His research focusses on the statistical physics of active matter and related biophysics problems. |
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You ZhouFudan University, China You Zhou is an Assistant Professor at Fudan University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Tsinghua University in 2019, after obtaining his B.S. from Zhejiang University in 2014. He held research positions at the University of Science and Technology of China, Harvard University, and Nanyang Technological University & the Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore. His research focuses on quantum information science, particularly quantum measurement and benchmarking, entanglement and correlations, and quantum simulation algorithms. |
