Reviews of Modern Physics

Dietrich Belitz, Colloquium Editor

American Physical Society, USA

Dietrich Belitz conducts theoretical research at the boundary between statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics. His principal interests have focused on quantum many-body problems, including superconductivity and magnetism, quantum phase transitions, and transport theory. He received a Diploma in Physics and a Ph.D. from Technical University Munich and has held positions at the University of Maryland and the University of Oregon. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Hiroaki Aihara, Associate Editor

Particle Physics (Experimental)

University of Tokyo, Japan

Hiroaki Aihara is Professor of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, and Executive Vice President at the University of Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. in physics in 1984 from University of Tokyo, and spent postdoctoral years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before he returned to University of Tokyo. His major research achievements include significant contributions to the discovery of the top quark at the Tevatron, the observation of CP violation in the B meson system at KEK B factory, and the observation of electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam at the T2K experiment at J-PARC.

Giulio Biroli, Associate Editor

Machine Learning and Statistical Physics

École Normale Supérieure (ENS Paris), France

Giulio Biroli is professor of theoretical physics at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS Paris). He earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from ENS Paris in 2000, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Rutgers University. His research spans the statistical physics of glassy and disordered systems, classical and quantum out-of-equilibrium phenomena, random matrices and probability theory, and has a growing focus on machine learning theory and generative AI. His honors include the Best Paper Award NeurIPS (2025), CNRS Silver Medal (2024), the Prix d'Aumale (2018), an ERC consolidator (2011) and the IUPAP Young Scientist Award (2007).

Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Associate Editor

Astrophysics

University of Sydney, Australia

Joss Bland-Hawthorn is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Professor and Director of the Sydney Institute for Astronomy, University of Sydney, receiving his Ph.D. in 1986 from the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the University of Sussex. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Optical Society of America, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has made important contributions to astrophysics, instrumentation, and optics. He founded the fields of galactic archaeology, near-field cosmology, and astrophotonics. He has been awarded both the ARC Federation and Laureate Fellowships and was the 2010 Leverhulme Professor to Oxford and the 2018 Miller Professor to Berkeley. He’s received various awards, including the 2017 Thomas Ranken Lyle medal—the first astronomer to do so in 40 years. His current research focuses on simulations of gas-rich galaxies in the early Universe.

David DiVincenzo, Associate Editor

Quantum Information

Jülich Research Center and RWTH Aachen University, Germany

David DiVincenzo is Director of the Institute of Theoretical Nanoelectronics at the Jülich Research Center, Professor of Physics at RWTH Aachen University, and part-time Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at Delft University. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and came to Germany after 25 years on the staff of the IBM Research Division in New York. He is a Fellow of the APS and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His research interests focus on the physical implementation of high-quality solid-state qubits for quantum computing.

Olga Dudko, Associate Editor

Biological Physics

University of California, San Diego, USA

Olga Dudko is a professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. She received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering in Kharkiv, Ukraine, working in condensed matter physics. She held postdoctoral appointments at Tel Aviv University and the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Dudko is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, an American Physical Society fellow, and a Simons Investigator. Dudko’s research strives to encompass the complexity of living systems through deep, physics-based conceptual approaches. Recent research includes the chromosomal dynamics in the cell, virus-host cell interactions, neuronal communication.

Giulia Galli, Associate Editor

Computational Physics

University of Chicago, USA

Giulia Galli is the Liew Family Professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations at the University of Chicago, and a Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, where she directs the Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Science, and the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Physical Society. She has received many awards in computational physics, theoretical chemistry, materials science and nanoscience, including the David Adler Lectureship Award and the Rahman Prize from the American Physical Society.

Greg Grason, Associate Editor

Soft Condensed Matter

University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Greg Grason is a professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005 and held a postdoctoral position at UCLA before joining the faculty of UMass in 2007. He studies soft matter through the combined lens of condensed matter theory, statistical physics and geometry. Recent efforts have focused on geometric-nonlinear structure formation in filamentous assemblies and membranes, complex mesophases of amphiphilic polymers, physics of frustrated, soft matter and programmable self-assembly. He is a recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2019).

Nadir Jeevanjee, Associate Editor

Climate Science

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA

Nadir is a Research Physical Scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, a climate modeling center in Princeton, NJ. Prior to this he was a Harry Hess Fellow in the Princeton Geosciences department, and he received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2016 from UC Berkeley. He also received the 2019 James R. Holton award for early career research from the American Geophysical Union. Before focusing on climate science, Nadir studied mathematical physics for many years and authored the textbook An Introduction to Tensors and Group Theory for Physicists, now in its 2nd edition. Nadir has been the Associate Editor for climate science at Reviews of Modern Physics since 2023.

Alexander Kusenko, Associate Editor

Particle Physics (Theoretical)

University of California, Los Angeles, USA and Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo, Japan

Alexander Kusenko is a professor of physics at UCLA and a Senior Scientist at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University. He is a Fellow of American Physical Society (2008) and a Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics (2021). He received the APS Outstanding Referee Award (2012). Kusenko has served three terms as a general member of the board of Aspen Center for Physics (2004-2019). His research interests include elementary particle physics, cosmology, and high-energy astrophysics.

Wim Leemans, Associate Editor

Physics of Plasmas and Beams

DESY, Germany

Wim Leemans received his Ph.D. at UCLA and was at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1991 until 2019 where he was director of the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division from 2014 to January 2019. As of February 2019, he is Director of the Accelerator Division at DESY, Hamburg, Germany, which builds and operates large- and small-scale accelerators and carries out R&D on developing the next generation machines. Since June 2020, he is also a professor at the Universität Hamburg, Germany. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the APS, and the AAAS and has received many awards including the 2009 E.O. Lawrence Award from the U.S. Department of Energy, the 2010 APS John Dawson Award, and the 2016 IEEE Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award.

Klaus Mølmer, Associate Editor

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Klaus Mølmer is professor of physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. He obtained his Ph.D. in atomic physics and quantum optics in 1990 from the University of Aarhus in Denmark where he also worked as associate and full professor until 2022. His research interests include cold atoms, quantum optics, quantum information and the description of measurements and dissipation in quantum physics. He received the Danish Physical Society Biennial Award in 1999, the Danish Ministry of Research Elite Award in 2007, the Villum Kann Rasmussen Annual Award in 2012, and the German Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2023.

Philip W. Phillips, Associate Editor

Condensed Matter Physics (Theoretical)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Philip W. Phillips is a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a condensed matter theorist whose work focuses on transport and magnetic phenomena stemming from the breakdown of the quasiparticle concept in strongly correlated and topology quantum matter. To this end, he utilizes methods from both condensed matter and string theory such as the AdS/CFT conjecture. Problems of current interest are the copper-oxide high-temperature superconductors, particularly the strange metal and the construction of exactly solvable models for superconductivity for doped Mott insulators. A primary goal of the latter is the construction of a quartic interacting fixed point for Mott physics. He is also interested in physics beyond the standard free-electron paradigm for topological states in half-filled bands. The recent experiments of quantum anomalous Hall states at 1/4 and 3/4 filling and the building of a composite fermion picture for fractional quantum Hall states in zero magnetic field in transition metal di-chalcogenide moire systems are some of his current interests. His work aims at constructing solvable models that reveal how such fractional topological states arise from intertwined strong correlations and topology.

Thomas Powers, Associate Editor

Fluid, Geometric, and Solid Mechanics

Brown University, USA

Thomas Powers studies soft condensed matter and fluid mechanics. In 1995, he received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Pennsylvania. After postdoctoral appointments in physics at Princeton University and the University of Arizona, and in engineering at Harvard University, he joined the Division (now School) of Engineering of Brown University in 2000 as the first holder of the James R. Rice Term Chair in Solid Mechanics. Since 2020, he has been the associate editor of Reviews of Modern Physics for Fluid, Geometric, and Solid Mechanics. From 2009 to 2014 he was associate editor of Reviews of Modern Physics for biological physics. Powers is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Thomas Schäfer, Associate Editor

Nuclear Physics

North Carolina State University, USA

Thomas Schäfer is the Wesley Doggett distinguished professor of physics at North Carolina State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Regensburg in 1992. His work is focused on QCD, many-body effects in atomic, nuclear, and particle physics, as well as transport theory. He held postdoctoral fellowships at Stony Brook University and the Institute for Nuclear Theory in Seattle. From 1998-1999 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton before joining the faculty at Stony Brook University as an assistant professor in 2000. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2003 and joined the faculty of North Carolina State University the same year. He was promoted to full professor in 2006. From 2000-2004, he was also a fellow at the Riken-BNL research center at BNL. Dr. Schäfer received a Fedor Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1992, an Outstanding Junior Investigator Award from DOE in 2002, and was elected a fellow of the APS in 2006. He served on the nuclear science advisory committee (NSAC). Before joining the editorial board of Reviews of Modern Physics he also served as an associate editor of PRL.

Urbasi Sinha, Associate Editor

Quantum Information

Raman Research Institute, India

Urbasi Sinha is a senior professor at the Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bangalore, and Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of Calgary, and cofounder of the quantum start-up QuSyn Technologies. She heads the Quantum Information and Computing lab at RRI and is associate faculty at the Perimeter Institute and the Institute for Quantum Computing, Canada. She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge, UK. Her research focuses on photonic quantum information processing, secure quantum communication, and precision tests of quantum mechanics. Her honours include the Homi Bhabha Fellowship, the ICTP-ICO Gallieno Denardo Award, the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar: Yuva Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award from the Government of India, and the Gates Cambridge Impact Prize.

Dam Thanh Son, Associate Editor

Mathematical Physics

University of Chicago, USA

Dam Thanh Son is a University Professor in the Physics Department, Enrico Fermi Institute, and James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia. He is interested in problems of theoretical condensed matter and high-energy physics like the quantum Hall effect, heavy-ion collisions, and gauge/gravity duality. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the Dirac medal of the ICTP.

Mark Stiles, Associate Editor

Applied and Materials Physics

National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Mark Stiles is a NIST Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He received a Ph.D. degree in physics from Cornell University. His research has focused on the development of theoretical methods for predicting the properties of magnetic nanostructures and has recently shifted to alternative computing. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics, served as Chair and on the Executive Committee of the Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications. He was also a Divisional Associate Editor for PRL and an Editorial Board of PRApplied. Mark is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and IEEE.

Véronique Van Elewyck, Associate Editor

Astrophysics

Université Paris Cité, France

Véronique Van Elewyck is an Associate Professor at the Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie at the Université Paris Cité. She received her Ph.D. in physics from Université Libre de Bruxelles. As an astroparticle physicist with a background in neutrino physics, she has contributed to the development of detectors and methods for multi-messenger astronomy, first with the Pierre Auger Observatory, then with the Mediterranean neutrino telescopes ANTARES and KM3NeT, with an emphasis on exploring the interdisciplinary potential of these detectors. In 2016, Véronique became a Junior Fellow of Institut Universitaire de France; she also serves on the C4 (Astroparticle) Commission of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics.