APS has appointed Denis Bartolo, Professor of Physics at ENS de Lyon, France as the Lead Editor of Physical Review X (PRX). Professor Bartolo takes the helm following the journal’s previous Lead Editors Cristina Marchetti and Jean-Michel Raimond.
Dr. Bartolo likes combining experiments and theory to investigate a variety of collective phenomena in soft condensed matter. Currently, his group is researching active-matter hydrodynamics, topological aspects of mechanics and crowd dynamics. After studying experimental physics and chemistry, he completed his PhD in theoretical physics at ESPCI-Paris and Sorbonne University. He joined Université Paris Cité as an assistant professor in 2006, and became a full professor at ENS de Lyon in 2012. In 2021, he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society and his research on active matter physics received the support of the European Research Council.
“I am delighted that Denis Bartolo is joining the PRX editorial team as the new Lead Editor,” said APS Editor in Chief Michael Thoennessen. “I would like to take this opportunity to thank Cristina Marchetti and Jean-Michel Raimond for serving as Co-Lead Editors since 2016. They did a fantastic job leading the journal, and I am sure that Denis will build upon their work and lead PRX towards a great future as a premier highly-selective fully open access physics journal.”
“I am proud to serve the physics community by joining the PRX team,” said Dr. Bartolo, “I am committed to maintaining and further elevating the exemplarity and the excellence of the journal defined by its previous lead editors, its editorial board, and its team of editors. In eleven years PRX has defined a new standard in the ecosystem of physics publications. In their final Editorial, former Lead Editors Cristina Marchetti and Jean-Michel Raimond described PRX as “a ‘small journal for big paper’, [which] has the potential to deeply influence current and future research.” My first role will be to preserve this unique stature and reputation by working together with all the editors and the editorial board. Working in close interactions with the authors and the referees, we intend to make PRX a gold standard of scientific excellence for all physicists, from all fields and groups. We will strive to make PRX an example of strong ethics and high integrity, and a meaningful forum for inclusive and respectful scientific communication.”
