Editorial Board
Our Editorial Board Members are active researchers recognized as experts in their field. They handle manuscripts within their areas of expertise, overseeing all aspects of the peer review process from submission to acceptance. Editorial Board Members work closely with our in-house editors to ensure that all manuscripts are subject to the same editorial standards and journal policies.
Leonardo Banchi
orcid.org/0000-0002-6324-8754
Research areas: quantum information & communication, many-body physics, quantum machine learning
Leonardo Banchi is an Associate Professor at the University of Florence. Before he was working for Xanadu Inc. and conducted postdoctoral work at Imperial College, University College London and ISI Foundation. He was the recipient of a Rita Levi Montalcini fellowship and his PhD thesis received the Fubini award. Over the years, he has worked on several topics, ranging from theoretical many-body physics and quantum integrable models, quantum walks, open quantum systems, quantum communication and cryptography, quantum optics and variational quantum algorithms. He did several works on quantum communication and entanglement in spin chains, on the use of quantum Gaussian states for finding the ultimate performance of quantum communication and sensing protocols, and on gradient based approaches for training variational algorithms and quantum processors. Currently his main interests are on foundational aspects of quantum machine learning, in particular the application of techniques from information theory and quantum statistical physics to explain when a problem is easy to learn using quantum hardware.
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Federico Battiston
orcid.org/0000-0001-9646-6232
Research areas: network science, complex systems, nonlinear dynamics, computational social science, human behavior, evolutionary game theory
Federico Battiston is an Associate Professor at the Department of Network and Data Science at Central European University. Before joining DNDS-CEU, he held postdoctoral positions at University College London, and at the Brain & Spine Institute in Paris. Federico holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Queen Mary University of London, and degrees in Theoretical Physics from Sapienza University of Rome. He works on the structure and dynamics of complex networks.
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Dario Bercioux
orcid.org/0000-0003-4890-5776
Research areas: spintronics, graphene & carbon nanotubes, topological matter, pseudo-spin-one systems, excitonic insulators, mesoscopic superconductivity, electron and photon simulators
Dr Dario Bercioux is a theoretical condensed matter physicist at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) in Spain. After obtaining his PhD in physics from the "Federico II" University of Naples, Italy in 2005, Dario worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Germany at the University of Regensburg, the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and the Freie University (FU) Berlin. He joined the Ikerbasque Foundation in Spain in 2014, first as a Research Fellow and since Fall 2019 as an Ikerbasque Associate Research Professor. His research interests include spintronics, carbon-based materials, topological matter, pseudo-spin-one systems, excitonic insulators, mesoscopic superconductivity, and electron/photon quantum simulators.
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Tracey Berry
orcid.org/0000-0002-9569-8231
Research areas: Particle Physics
Dr Tracey Berry is an experimental particle physicist. She leads a group to search for new (exotic) particles using the ATLAS detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, which is the highest energy collider in the world. Previously, before the LHC turned on, she researched as postdoctoral research fellow on the Collider Detector at Fermilab, on the Tevatron near Chicago, which was then the world's highest energy collider. She completed her undergraduate degree (being made a scholar after her first year and obtaining a first class) and DPhil at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. As well as a passion for maths and physics she is a keen sportswoman. Having played University (Blues) netball for many years, rowed and during her DPhil started running. She is still a keen long-distance (marathon) runner. Presently she is based at Royal Holloway, University of London and is the Director of External Engagement for the School of Science.
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Marin Bukov
orcid.org/0000-0002-3688-9599
Research areas: nonequilibrium quantum dynamics, quantum simulators, applications of machine learning in physics
Marin Bukov is a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden. He studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and the Technische Universität in Munich, and obtained his PhD from Boston University. Prior to joining the Max Planck Society, he was a Gordon and Betty Moore postdoctoral fellow at the Condensed Matter Theory Center at UC Berkeley, and a junior group leader at Sofia University. His research is focused on the theory of out-of-equilibrium quantum many-body systems with applications to quantum simulators, and the interplay between machine learning and many-body physics.
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Anushya Chandran
Research areas: non-equilibrium quantum dynamics, topological systems, many-body entanglement
Anushya Chandran is a many-body condensed matter physicist at Boston University with broad interests in driven quantum matter, localization, topological systems and many-body entanglement. She obtained her B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras in Electrical Engineering, and her PhD from Princeton University in physics. After a postdoctoral position at the Perimeter Institute, she started as an assistant professor position at Boston University in 2016. Dr. Chandran is a recipient of the Sloan research Fellowship and the Faculty Early Career award from the NSF.
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Amin Doostmohammadi
orcid.org/0000-0002-1116-4268
Research areas: active matter, cell mechanics, complex fluids
Amin Doostmohammadi is a Novo-Nordisk Assistant Professor at the Niels Bohr International Academy. He also has a cross-appointment as a Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Bioengineering in Osaka University, Japan. Before joining NBI, Amin held a Royal 1851 Research Fellowship at Oxford University's Rudolph Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics and has recently been awarded DFF-ERC and Villum Young Investigator Awards.
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James A Grieve
orcid.org/0000-0002-2800-8317
Research areas: Quantum Optics, Integrated Photonics, Nonlinear Optics, Single Photons, Entanglement Distribution, Quantum Key Distribution
James A Grieve is a principal investigator at the Quantum Research Centre, Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi. His research centres around the practical implementation of quantum communications technologies, including both fibre-based and satellite quantum key distribution. He obtained his PhD from the University of Bristol in 2012.
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Sergi Garcia-Manyes
orcid.org/0000-0001-5140-2606
Research areas: mechanobiology, single molecules, molecular mechanisms, single proteins, protein mechanochemistry
Dr Sergi Garcia-Manyes is Professor of Biophysics at King’s College London, holding a joint appointment between the Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics and the Department of Physics, where he is the Head of the Biological Physics and Soft Matter (BPSM) research group. He has also established a satellite laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute (London). Sergi obtained his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Barcelona, and conducted his postdoctoral training in the field of single molecule mechanics in the Biology Department of Columbia University in the City of New York. Sergi’s lab is interested in mechanobiology across different length-scales, spanning from single molecules to individual cells, with a particular accent on the molecular mechanisms underpinning mechanical folding of single proteins and protein mechanochemistry at the single bond level. Sergi held an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship, and has been recently awarded the Leverhulme Research Leadership Award and a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award.
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Chia Wei Hsu
orcid.org/0000-0002-9609-7155
Research areas: nanophotonics, disordered optical systems, imaging inside scattering media, computational electromagnetics, metasurfaces, non-Hermitian optics
Chia Wei (Wade) Hsu is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California. He received his PhD in Physics from Harvard University and was a postdoc in Applied Physics at Yale University before joining USC. His current interests lie primarily in the optics of complex and multi-channel systems such as disordered media and metasurfaces, numerical methods to model such systems, etc. He received the NSF CAREER award, APS LeRoy Apker Award, Sony Faculty Innovation Award, and the Charles Lee Powell Faculty Research Award.
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Shu Jia
orcid.org/0000-0001-6854-7537
Research areas: systems biophotonics, single-molecule biophysics, super-resolution and advanced optical microscopy, imaging physics, instrumentation and devices
Dr. Shu Jia, is currently an Assistant Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. Dr. Jia received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. He completed his postdoctoral training at Harvard University. Dr. Jia's research interests include systems biophotonics, single-molecule biophysics, super-resolution and advanced optical microscopy, imaging physics, instrumentation and devices.
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Subhendu Kahaly
orcid.org/0000-0001-7600-3310
Research areas: ultrafast physics, attosecond science, photonics of materials, optical metrology, intense laser matter interaction
Dr. Subhendu Kahaly is Leading Scientist in Extreme Light Infrastructure, Hungary where he is the Head of the Secondary Sources Division responsible for all the laser driven state of the art attosecond, terahertz and particle beamlines. He obtained his PhD in Physics from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai and afterwards held positions at Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée (LOA) and at Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA), Saclay, France. He has been a university topper and recipient of several academic awards. His current research interest is in the application of Laser Photonics on Materials Research and Dynamics, where he has authored over 40 publications, several review articles and book chapters and holds 3 international patents. His research group investigates the fundamental and applied aspects of intense ultra-short light interaction with gas, liquid, solid and plasma based systems in computational and laboratory experiments with a focus on attosecond science and ultrafast metrology. He has been member of the Hungarian Delegation from ELI-ALPS to several countries, is part of the ELI-ALPS Scientific Management, is in the editorial board or the reviewer panel of several international high impact journals.
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Archana Kamal
Research areas: Quantum information processing, open quantum systems, superconducting quantum circuits
Archana Kamal leads the QUEST group (QUantum Engineering Science and Technology) at UMass Lowell, with broad interests in theory of quantum information processing, quantum optics and open quantum systems. She completed her PhD from Yale University and her postdoctoral research at MIT, where her research spanned both theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum information processing with superconducting quantum circuits. She was recognized with the TR 35 under 35 award from MIT Tech Review for introducing the framework of active nonreciprocity for quantum information processing. She is also a recipient of Young Investigator Award from the AFOSR and Faculty Early Career award from the NSF.
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Hae-Young Kee
orcid.org/0000-0002-8248-4461
Research areas: quantum spin liquids, topological phases, high temperature superconductors, unconventional superconductors, and frustrated magnets
Hae-Young Kee is a professor of Physics at the University of Toronto, a Canada Research Chair in Theory of Quantum Materials, a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in Quantum Materials, and a distinguished fellow of Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics. She obtained her PhD from Seoul National University in 1996 and joined the University of Toronto as an assistant professor in 2001. She received the 2003 Sloan Research Fellowships award and was elected fellow of American Physics Society in 2018. Kee specializes in emergent phenomena in condensed matter physics including quantum spin liquids, topological phases, high temperature superconductors, unconventional superconductors, and frustrated magnets.
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Olga Kuksenok
orcid.org/0000-0002-1895-5206
Research areas: computational polymer physics, elastodynamics of polymer networks, chemoresponsive and self-oscillating gels, degradation of polymer networks, pattern formation in polymeric systems, biomimetic materials
Dr. Kuksenok is currently an Associate Professor at the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Clemson University in Clemson, SC. Prior to joining Clemson University in 2015, she held a Research Associate Professor appointment at the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Kuksenok received her PhD in Physics and Mathematics from the Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and was appointed as a research scientist in the Theoretical Physics Department, Institute for Nuclear Research in Kiev, Ukraine, and then as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Kuksenok’s current research interests and accomplishments span several areas of computational materials science: responsive polymer networks, dynamics of multi-component polymer blends, biomimetic and biological materials, soft and active matter, pattern formation in non-equilibrium systems.
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Daniele Margarone
Research areas: laser-plasma interaction, laser-driven acceleration, laser-induced nuclear fusion, novel approaches to hadrontherapy, radiation detectors
Daniele Margarone is a Lecturer in Experimental Plasma Physics at Queen’s University Belfast (UK) and Head of the Department of Ion Acceleration and Applications of High-Energy Particles at the ELI Beamlines pan-European Centre. Previously he was appointed as Senior Researcher at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. Dr Margarone was recently awarded by the President of the Italian Republic with the title of “Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy" for the bilateral research cooperation between Italy and the Czech Republic.
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Kirsten Martens
Research areas: glassy dynamics, nonlinear rheology of soft matter, out-of-equilibrium phase transitions, pattern formation
Dr Kirsten Martens received her PhD in 2009 at the University of Geneva in the field of out-of-equilibium statistical physics and pattern formation. She has been a Swiss National Science Foundation and Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University Lyon 1 (2009-2012). She is currently employed as a permanent researcher of the CNRS in the Interdisciplinary Physics Institute (LIPhy), a joint research unit of the CNRS and the Grenoble Alpes University. Her research interests include particle based, mesoscopic and meanfield modeling of the flow of disordered materials and dense active matter systems, with a specific interest in avalanche dynamics, shear localisation and the search of potential precursors in the yielding transition of amorphous materials.
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Dennis Meier
orcid.org/0000-0002-8623-6705
Research areas: emergent electric and magnetic nanoscale phenomena in correlated electron materials
Dr. Dennis Meier is Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. He studied physics and received his Diploma at the University of Cologne, Germany. After obtaining his PhD degree from the University of Bonn, he worked as Feodor-Lynen Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. In 2013, he joined the ETH Zurich in Switzerland and established a new Junior Research Group. In 2016, he was appointed as Onsager Fellow and Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at NTNU, where he became full Professor in 2019. In addition, he is associated member of QuSpin, a Centre of Excellence for Quantum Spintronics at the Department of Physics at NTNU. His research studies emergent electric and magnetic nanoscale phenomena in correlated electron materials with a focus on functional topological systems. Recent honors include awards from the German Physical Society (Gustav-Hertz Award), the Norwegian Academy of Science (Fridtjof Nansen award for young scientists), the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (I. K. Lykkes award) and an ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council.
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Saskia Mordijck
Research areas: plasma physics, fusion energy, turbulence, chaos, data science
Saskia Mordijck received her Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in 2011 and she received a Master degree from the K.U. Leuven (Belgium) in 2006. Her research focuses on plasma transport & turbulence using both experiments and modeling in magnetized plasmas. She is passionate about fusion and energy in general and curious in applying new mathematical and computational techniques to study turbulence and chaos in general. Currently, she is an assistant professor in physics at The College of William and Mary.
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Sara Mouradian
orcid.org/0000-0002-1766-4503
Research areas: Integrated photonic devices and systems, experimental atomic physics, quantum information science, quantum sensing, quantum computation, and quantum communication
Dr. Sara Mouradian is an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She will begin as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Washington in March 2022. She received her BS, MEng, and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010, 2012, and 2018 respectively. Her dissertation won the Dimitris N. Chorafas Award and the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory Award. Her research focuses on scaling trapped ion systems for the next generation of computation, communication, and sensing technologies.
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Martin Oberlack
orcid.org/0000-0002-5849-3755
Research areas: theoretical and numerical fluid mechanics, such as turbulence, hydrodynamic stability theory, multi-phase flows, high-order numerical methods or high-performance computing
Martin Oberlack received both his Diploma in Aeronautics (1988) and his Ph.D. in ME in (1994) from RWTH Aachen. He then became a PostDoc at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University / NASA Ames until 1997, when he returned to RWTH Aachen University and completed his habilitation there in 2000. He is presently full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt and holder of the chair for fluid dynamics. His scientific focus is on statistical turbulence theory and the application of group-theoretical methods as well as large turbulence simulations. Furthermore, he explores singular flow problems with analytical methods as well as with new high-precision numerical methods, especially in the application to multi-phase problems. His research interests cover the broader field of theoretical and numerical fluid mechanics, such as turbulence, hydrodynamic stability theory, multi-phase flows, high-order numerical methods or high-performance computing. In the early stages of his career, he received the Friedrich-Wilhelm Award of the RWTH Aachen, the Hermann-Reissner-Award of the University of Stuttgart and the Academy Award 2000 of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
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Yasutomo Ota
orcid.org/0000-0002-0869-8998
Research areas: nanophotonics, quantum optics, photonic integrated circuits, semiconductor lasers, topological photonics
Dr. Yasutomo Ota received a B.E. (2006) in Mechanical System Engineering from Osaka Prefecture University and a M.E (2008) and a Ph.D. (2011) in Electrical Engineering from The University of Tokyo in Japan. He joined Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics, The University of Tokyo as a project assistant professor in 2011 and became a project associate professor in 2015. From 2018, he also serves as a researcher of PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency. In 2021, he became an associate professor in the Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University in Japan, where he leads a research group focusing on the physics and applications of photonic nanostructures.
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Fabio Pezzoli
orcid.org/0000-0001-8570-7299
Research areas: Electronic and optical properties of group IV heterostructures, Semiconductor spintronics
Dr Fabio Pezzoli received his PhD in Nanostructures and Nanotechnologies from the University of Milano-Bicocca. He had been visiting student at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz and conducted postdoctoral work at the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart and at the Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden. He has investigated epitaxy and fundamental properties of semiconductor architectures exploring application possibilities in various fields including microelectronics and thermoelectrics. He was recipient of a young physicist award by the Italian Physical Society. Since 2019 he has been Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Science of the University of Milano-Bicocca where he leads investigations on spin-dependent phenomena in group IV materials. He is also affiliated to the L-NESS centre of Como (Italy).
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Nick Proukakis
orcid.org/0000-0003-0126-5820
Research areas: ultracold quantum matter, Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity, atomtronics, non-equilibrium quantum dynamics, phase transitions and universality, superfluid turbulence, exciton-polariton condensation, multi-component quantum matter, nonlinear excitations
Nick Proukakis is Professor of Quantum Physics and Director of the Physics Degree Programme at Newcastle University, and Co-Director of the Joint Quantum Centre (JQC) Durham-Newcastle. With a Physics degree from Imperial College London, a Doctorate from Oxford University, and researcher posts in Greece, Germany, UK and Netherlands, Nick is an advocate for scientific mobility and collaborative research, having held visiting academic posts/professorships across Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy and Taiwan and maintaining established networks of international collaborators across five continents. His primary research expertise lies in ultracold quantum matter and Bose-Einstein condensation, addressing both fundamental and universal aspects through analytical/numerical modelling, with an active interest in modelling of, and applications to experiments and potential emerging quantum technologies; however, his research interests cut across broader themes of quantum gases and fluids, most notably including exciton-polariton condensation and superfluid turbulence. He is the lead editor of two research volumes cutting across different physics disciplines, respectively addressing finite temperature and non-equilibrium dynamics in quantum gases, and universal themes of Bose-Einstein condensation.
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Markus Raschke
orcid.org/0000-0003-2822-851X
Research areas: nano-optics, ultrafast spectroscopy, quantum materials, molecular physics, mineral physics
Markus Raschke is professor at the Department of Physics and JILA at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research is on the development and application of nano-scale nonlinear and ultrafast spectroscopy to control the light-matter interaction on the nanoscale. These techniques allow for imaging structure and dynamics of molecular and quantum matter with nanometer spatial resolution. He received his PhD in 2000 from the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Technical University in Munich, Germany. Following research appointments at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Max-Born-Institute in Berlin, he became faculty member at the University of Washington in 2006, before moving to Boulder in 2010. He is fellow of the Optical Society of America, the American Physical Society, he American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Explorers Club.
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Grigory Rogachev
orcid.org/0000-0003-1120-6103
Research areas: nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics.
Grigory Rogachev is doing research in low energy experimental nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics, focusing on structure of light and medium mass nuclei, in particular exotic neutron-rich and neutron-deficient isotopes, clustering phenomena in nuclei, and also on determining rates of key nuclear reactions that drive nucleosynthesis and energy generation in stellar environment. Grigory Rogachev graduated from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (State University) in 1996 with Master of Science degree in Experimental Nuclear Physics. From 1996 to 1999 Grigory Rogachev was a Research Assistant at the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1999. From 2000 to 2003 he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate and later (2003-2004) a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame. In summer of 2004 Grigory Rogachev joined faculty at the Department of Physics at Florida State. In summer of 2013 he moved to Texas A&M University. At present he is a Professor and Head of the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University.
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Michael Schaub
orcid.org/ 0000-0003-2426-6404
Research areas: Network Science, Complex Networks, Applied Dynamical Systems, Neuroscience, Data Science, Graph Signal Processing,
Michael Schaub studied Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at ETH Zurich. After an MSc in Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London, he obtained his PhD in Mathematics at Imperial College London. In the following he worked as a Research Fellow in Belgium, jointly at the Université catholique de Louvain and at the Université de Namur. In November 2016, he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. From July 2017 onwards he was a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at MIT and the University of Oxford, before joining RWTH Aachen University in June 2020, supported by the NRW Return Programme. He was awarded an ERC Starting grant in 2022. His research interests include network science, data science, machine learning, and dynamical systems.
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Minah Seo
orcid.org/0000-0003-1290-9716
Research areas: optical properties of materials, metamaterials, terahertz spectroscopy
Dr Minah Seo is a senior research scientist at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST, South Korea). She received her Ph.D degree in Physics from Seoul National University including a period as a visiting scholar at Delft University. Her major is Physics with a specific interest in optics and spectroscopy of various materials in the ultrabroadband wavelength regime (visible to Terahertz). Prior to joining the KIST, she was a director’s postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory in USA (2010~ 2013) working on ultrafast optical microscopy on semiconductor nano materials. After she joined the Sensor System Research Center at KIST, learning that current optical tools are rather limited in real immediate applications especially for small molecules, she has started to develop a hybrid type of terahertz optical sensing technique using nano scale metamaterials for highly sensitive and selective molecule detection. Dr Seo has authored over 70 publications and patents, including papers in Nature Photonics, Nano Letters, and Advanced Materials. She was awarded as a Young Fellow by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology in 2017.
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Jie Shen
orcid.org/0000-0002-7205-5081
Research areas: Topological quantum devices, mesoscopic devices, electronic transport measurement
Jie Shen is an associate professor in Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She received her doctorate degree from IOP, CAS in 2013, and held postdoctoral position in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science of Yale University from 2013 to 2015 and in Qutech of Delft University of Technology from 2015 to 2019. She is currently in charge of the Quantum Computation Station (with Magnetic field) in Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility (SECUF) of IOP, CAS. Her research interests are in the broad areas of mesoscopic devices, with a focus on topological quantum devices including the hybrid system of superconductor and semiconductor with spin-orbit coupling, topological insulator, 2D chern insulator and new topological system.
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Martin Stolterfoht
orcid.org/0000-0002-4023-2178
Research areas: perovskite and organic solar cells, tandem photovoltaics, solar cell characterization, device simulations, charge carrier recombination and charge transport, ion diffusion, spectroscopy, semiconductor devices, renewable energies
Martin Stolterfoht is a Heisenberg fellow funded by the German Research Foundation and leading the Perovskite Group at the University of Potsdam. He completed his Master’s degree in Physics at the University of Graz, Austria in 2012 and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Queensland, Australia in 2016. His research is focused on providing a fundamental description of thin-film solar cell operation and charge recombination processes from picoseconds to steady state through electrooptical measurements and numerical modeling. He also aims at improving perovskite single and multijunction solar cells through the identification and suppression of recombination losses.
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Evelyn Tang
orcid.org/0000-0002-8274-8850
Research areas: Theoretical biology, network dynamics, computational neuroscience, topological phases, learning and information, non-Hermitian physics
Evelyn Tang joined the faculty in the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at Rice University, in 2021. Previously, she was a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization and before that, an Africk Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in the group of Dani Bassett. In 2015, she received her PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she worked with Xiao-Gang Wen on novel topological states in quantum electronic systems. She holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a BS from Yale University. Tang is a recipient of the Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship, the Africk Family Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the Gates Cambridge scholarship.
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Nikodem Tomczak
Research areas: physics at surfaces and interfaces, scanning probe microscopy, nanomechanics, polymer physics, materials characterization methods
Nikodem Tomczak completed his PhD degree in chemistry at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. His doctoral research topic was on the application of single molecule fluorescence methods to studies of polymer structure and dynamics. He is currently a Senior Scientist and Leader of Advanced Nanometrology Research Group as well as Deputy Head of the Advanced Characterization and Instrumentation Department at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR, and a Research Affiliate at the NUS Business School Centre on AI Technology for Humankind. His research interests include physics at surfaces and interfaces, scanning probe microscopy, nanomechanics, polymer physics and materials characterization methods.
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Xiangrong Wang
orcid.org/0000-0002-8600-3258
Research areas: topological objects and topological states, magnetization dynamics and spintronics, quantum phase transitions of two-dimensional systems
Xiangrong Wang obtained his BSc degree (1984) from Wuhan University and PhD degree (1990) from the University of Rochester. After two-year post-doc. experience in University of Minnesota, he joined the Physics Department of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as a faculty member in 1992. He is currently a professor there. He was awarded a Qian Ren Professor in 2010, and is guest professors of several universities and research institutions in the Mainland of China. Professor Wang is working in the field of theoretical condensed matter physics and statistical physics. His current research interests include static and dynamical properties of topological objects and topological states, magnetization dynamics, quantum phase transitions of two-dimensional systems. He published more than 150 papers.
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Matthew Yankowitz
orcid.org/0000-0002-5637-9203
Research areas: two-dimensional van der Waals materials, quantum materials, correlations and topology, experimental condensed matter physics
Dr. Matthew Yankowitz is an Assistant Professor of Physics and MSE at the University of Washington. He received his BS from Stanford University in 2011 and his PhD in Physics from the University of Arizona in 2015. He subsequently held a postdoctoral position at Columbia University prior to starting a faculty position at UW in 2019. His research focuses on the electronic properties of atomically-thin van der Waals heterostructures, characterized at low temperatures and in high magnetic fields using a combination of electrical transport and scanning probe microscopy techniques. In particular, he is interested in the role of correlations and topology in these materials. Dr. Yankowitz was recognized as a Finalist for the Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists in 2019.
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Ming Yi
Research areas: high-temperature superconductivity, quantum materials, experimental condensed matter physics
Dr Ming Yi is an experimental condensed matter physicist at Rice University broadly interested in understanding the fundamental mechanisms of emergent phenomena in quantum materials. She has in particular worked extensively in the area of high temperature superconductivity, whereby using experimental probes such as angle-resolved photoemission and x-ray scattering techniques has studied the behaviors of exotic electronic orders in these fascinating materials. She obtained her B.S. degree from MIT, and PhD degree from Stanford University, both in physics. After a postdoctoral position at UC Berkeley she started as an assistant professor position at Rice University in 2019. Dr. Yi is a recipient of the L’Oréal USA For Women In Science Fellowship in 2015, the Outstanding Dissertation Award of the International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers in 2016, and the William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award in 2018.
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Luqi Yuan
orcid.org/0000-0001-9481-0247
Research areas: optics and photonics, topological photonics, synthetic dimensions in photonics, quantum optics, hybrid quantum systems, light-matter interactions
Dr. Luqi Yuan is currently a faculty in School of Physics and Astronomy at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his PhD degree in Physics from Texas A&M University in 2014, and was a postdoctoral scholar from 2014 to 2018 at Stanford University. His research interests span broad fields among quantum optics, photonics, AMO physics, and nonlinear optics, including nanophotonics, topological photonics, synthetic dimensions in photonics, hybrid quantum systems, and light-matter interactions. Dr. Yuan has authored over 70 peer-reviewed papers, including those in Science, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, and Light: Science and Applications.
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Jie Zhang
orcid.org/0000-0002-1326-8941
Research areas: glass transitions and jamming transitions, plasticity of amorphous solids, statistical descriptions of granular materials, rheological behaviors of glassy materials, acoustic modes and phonon transmissions in amorphous solids, and fluid mechanics.
Dr. Jie Zhang is a Professor of Physics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China, holding a joint appointment between the Institute of Natural Sciences and the School of Physics and Astronomy. Dr. Zhang obtained his BS in Applied Physics in the University of Science and Technology of China and obtained his PhD in Soft Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Zhang conducted his postdoctoral training in the field of fluid mechanics and granular physics in the Physics Department of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and later in the Center for Nonlinear Studies of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Dr. Zhang’s research interests include glass transitions and jamming transitions, plasticity of amorphous solids, statistical descriptions of granular materials, rheological behaviors of glassy materials, acoustic modes and phonon transmissions in amorphous solids, and fluid mechanics.
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Zheshen Zhang
orcid.org/0000-0002-8668-8162
Research areas: quantum information science, quantum communications, quantum networks, quantum metrology and sensing, quantum computing and information processing, integrated photonic devices and systems
Dr. Zheshen Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Prior to joining UA, Dr. Zhang was a Research Scientist working with Jeff Shapiro and Franco Wong at MIT. Dr. Zhang's research encompasses a broad swath of the experimental and theoretical aspects of quantum networks, quantum communications, quantum sensing, and quantum computing. Dr. Zhang is currently leading the development of UA's Interdisciplinary Quantum Information Research and Engineering (INQUIRE) quantum network infrastructure and serves as a testbed co-Lead for NSF’s Engineering Research Center for Quantum Networks.
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