In many parts of the world, September marks the end of summer and the start of a new academic year. This year, the feeling of endings and beginnings is shared by the editorial team at Nature Reviews Physics. Iulia Georgescu, the Chief Editor who launched the journal, is moving to a new job. Her role at the helm will be taken up by Nina Meinzer.

Iulia joined the Nature Reviews Physics team in late 2017, putting together the team that launched the journal at the start of 2019. As anyone who has met her will tell you, she is a powerhouse of ideas, and one of her many achievements in the job was to bring in various physics communities, including some that don’t regularly publish in Nature Portfolio journals.

Nina comes to Nature Reviews Physics from Nature Physics, where they were a senior editor and team leader. Nina is excited to be able to focus on the things they enjoy most about the editorial job — high-quality non-primary content, writing and directly working with researchers across the physics community.

Another change happening in September is that our first group of Advisory Board members have reached the end of their term collaborating with us, and we are welcoming a new cohort. Last year, we decided to enlist a group of advisors to extend our reach into the many communities that make up the world of physics. The day-to-day running of the journal remains the remit of our in-house team, as do all final editorial decisions, but we have been grateful to call on the expertise of our board members to advise and inform our editorial processes. Our new Advisory Board members are:

Hsin-Yu Chen, assistant professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work involves many aspects of gravitational wave detection, from mergers of binary black holes, binary neutron stars and neutron stars and black holes — and their associated electromagnetic counterparts — to their cosmological implications as standard sirens.

Monika Aidelsburger, professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and research group leader at Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching in Germany. Her research expertise lies in ultracold atoms in optical lattices, topology, synthetic gauge fields, non-equilibrium dynamics, and lattice gauge theories.

Sophia Economou, professor and the T. Marshall Hahn Chair in Physics at Virginia Tech. She is also the director of the Virginia Tech Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering. She focuses on theoretical research in quantum information science, including quantum computing, quantum communications, and quantum simulation algorithms. In 2023 she was honoured as an APS fellow.

Sujit Das, assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. He was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, USA, and CNRS-Thales, France, focusing on ferroic thin films. His current research includes polar topology, tunable capacitors, neuromorphic devices, and single spin manipulation in quantum materials.

William Gilpin, assistant professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin. He develops computational approaches for understanding dynamical systems, drawing upon classical nonlinear dynamics and complexity science. His group is particularly interested in applying these tools to problems in systems biology and fluid mechanics.

Xuelei Chen, professor at the National Astronomical Observatories of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He works primarily on cosmology and the large-scale structure of the Universe, often using extensive surveys to gain insights into cosmic dawn, reionization, galaxy formation and evolution and expansion.

We are very grateful to our 2023–2024 Advisory Board and are looking forward to working with our new Board over the next 12 months.