Nature Physics is seeking an Associate Editor to join its editorial team in our London office. The ideal candidate will have completed a PhD in a physics discipline, and some postdoctoral experience is preferred. Key aspects of the job are the selection of manuscripts for publication, and the commissioning, editing and writing of material for the journal.

The closing date for applications is 30 May 2008.

"... It's through data that science largely manages to push wishful thinking to the sidelines, and, in so far as possible, to discover reality as it is. Of course, testing theories with data isn't actually so easy. Different experiments often contradict one another. A devoted theorist can always doubt the results of an experiment and go on believing (sometimes correctly). ..."

"The insulating state is the most basic electronic phase of matter. ... As they report in Nature, Hsieh et al. have now observed a new kind of insulator – dubbed a 'topological insulator' – that has unique conducting states bound to its surface. These surface states are unlike any other known 2D electron system..."