Editorial Board of Physical Review C
APS Publications Leadership and Management
Editorial Roles in the Physical Review Journals
Editors of Physical Review C
Joe Kapusta, Chief Editor
University of Minnesota, USA
Joe received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978. After post-doctoral fellowships at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and CERN, he moved to the University of Minnesota in 1982 where he is now a Distinguished University Teaching Professor. His research interests focus on quantum field theory at finite temperature and density, with applications to high-energy nuclear collisions, neutron stars, and cosmology. He is a Fellow of the APS (1992) and the AAAS (2003). He served as Associate Editor of PRC from 1997 to 2021, becoming Lead Editor in 2022. He served on the APS Publication Oversight Committee (2003–2007, Chair in 2006).
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Chris Wesselborg, Managing EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Chris received his Sc.D. in nuclear physics in 1989 from the University of Cologne, Germany. He pursued his research career in experimental nuclear structure physics and spectroscopy during postdoctoral research appointments in Cologne, Germany, and at Brookhaven National Laboratory (Humboldt Lynen Fellowship). After he joined APS in 1993, he worked as an Associate Editor for PRC and PRL and assisted during the founding of PRAB. Before joining APS, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Giessen in Giessen, Germany. |
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Rick Casten, Associate EditorYale University, USA Rick Casten is a D. Allan Bromley Professor Emeritus of Physics at Yale University, after retiring in 2015. From 1995–2008 he was the Director of the Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory (WNSL), and he previously held positions at Niels Bohr Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Brookhaven Laboratory, University of Cologne, and Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble. Rick received his doctorate from Yale (at WNSL) in 1967 on Coulomb excitation in the osmium isotopes. His research interests include nuclear structure, dynamical symmetries in nuclei, evolution of collectivity with nucleon number, proton-neutron interaction, correlations of observables, techniques for measurements of absolute transition rates, and the r-process. Rick has been awarded the Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship, the Senior Humboldt Prize (1983), the Tom W. Bonner Prize (APS, 2011), and the APS Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP) Mentoring Award (2009). He was Chair of the DNP, Chair of the US Department of Energy’s Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (2002–2005), and Chair of the ISL/RIA/FRIB Steering Committee (1989–ca. 2007). He earned honorary doctorates from the Universities of Surrey (2008) and Bucharest (2005). Rick has served as Associate Editor of PRC since 2001. |
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Maria Colonna, Associate EditorINFN-LNS (Southern National Laboratory), Italy Maria received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Catania (Italy) in 1993, doing part of her studies at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and at Michigan State University. After post-doctoral fellowships at GANIL and CEA-Saclay, in France, she joined the theory group of the INFN-LNS (Southern National Laboratory), in Catania, where she currently holds the position of Research Director and University Teaching Professor. She served as a member of the INFN National Theory Committee from 2006 to 2012. Her research interests cover nuclear reaction theory and the nuclear equation of state, with applications to low-energy nuclear collisions and heavy ion physics. She joined the PRC editorial team as an Associate Editor in 2021. |
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Bradley Filippone, Associate EditorCalifornia Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA Brad received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1982. After post-doctoral fellowships at Argonne National Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), he joined the faculty at Caltech where he is now the Francis L. Moseley Professor of Physics. His research interests have focused on experimental studies in nuclear astrophysics, nucleon spin structure and nuclear interactions at short distances using high-energy electron scattering, as well as fundamental symmetries using free neutrons. He is a Fellow of the APS (2009) and has served as Associate Editor of PRC since 2001. |
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Alexandra Gade, Associate EditorFacility for Rare Isotope Beams and Michigan State University, USA Alex received her Diploma and Dr. rer. nat. doctoral degree at the Universität zu Köln (Germany). She has been at Michigan State University, the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL), and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) ever since where she is now a Professor of Physics and has been serving in scientific leadership positions at NSCL/FRIB. She is a Fellow of the APS and the AAAS. Her research work is focused on the structure of rare isotopes with experiments using γ-ray spectroscopy and various nuclear reactions. Alex has been an Associate Editor of PRC since 2019. |
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Charles Gale, Associate EditorMcGill University, Canada Charles obtained his Ph.D. in physics from McGill University in 1986. After positions at the University of Minnesota and at Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, he returned to McGill, where he is currently Distinguished James McGill Professor. His research interests include theoretical hadronic physics, relativistic field theories at finite temperature and density, high-energy heavy-ion collisions, and astrophysics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Royal Society of Canada. He joined the PRC editorial team as an Associate Editor in 2021 |
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Calvin Johnson, Associate EditorSan Diego State University, USA Calvin is a Professor at San Diego State University and earned his Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of Washington, Seattle. His research interests include nuclear structure, especially the shell model and related approximations such as the random-phase approximation and projected Hartree-Fock; applications of nuclear structure to testing new physics, such as dark matter detection and neutrinoless double-beta decay; and, most recently, applying quantum computing to nuclear structure and scattering. Calvin also teaches an honors course on science and science fiction. He joined the PRC editorial team as an Associate Editor in 2018. |
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Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo, Associate EditorGSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Gabriel received his Ph.D. in physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, in 1995. After post-doctoral research at the California Institute of Technology (USA), Aarhus University (Denmark), and University of Basel (Switzerland), he became ICREA Research Professor in 2002 at the Institute of Space Sciences in Barcelona (Spain). In 2005, he moved to the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and became Professor of Theoretical Nuclear Astrophysics at the Technische Universität Darmstadt in a joint position with GSI in 2011. Since 2018, he is the head of the Theoretical Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics department at GSI. His research interests are related to nuclear astrophysics with focus on explosive environments related to the production of heavy elements by the r-process. He has served as Associate Editor of PRC since 2015. He has been awarded the Gustav-Hertz prize of the German Physical Society in 2008, an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council in 2020, and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Science Foundation in 2022. He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2021. |
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John Millener, Associate EditorBrookhaven National Laboratory, USA John received his D. Phil. in physics from Oxford University while on a Rhodes Scholarship (New Zealand, 1968) and continued as a postdoc on an IBM Research Fellowship. In 1976, he moved to Brookhaven National Laboratory where he worked on the structure of light nuclei and hypernuclei using SU(3) shell-model codes. He is a Fellow of the APS (1993) and has been an Associate Editor of PRC since 2002. He retired from Brookhaven in 2013, continuing as a guest scientist since then. |
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Richard G. Milner, Associate EditorMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA Richard G. Milner is a professor of physics at MIT and has worked there since 1988. He studied at University College Cork where he received a B.Sc. (Hons.) in experimental physics in 1978 and M.Sc. in theoretical physics in 1979. He received his Ph.D. in physics in 1985 from Caltech. His research focuses on understanding nucleon and nuclear structure using the lepton probe, frequently using spin observables and polarized internal gas targets. He has proposed and led experiments at SLAC, IUCF, MIT, DESY, and Jefferson Lab. He has served as director of the MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator Center from 1998 to 2006 and director of MIT’s Laboratory for Nuclear Science from 2006 to 2015. He has served on numerous international advisory committees, was chair of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2007, and served as chair of the International Spin Physics Committee from 2014 to 2017. He is a fellow of the APS and the 2010 recipient of a D.Sc. (honoris causa) from the National University of Ireland. He was also given an award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany in 2011 and was awarded the 2020 Tom W. Bonner Prize of the APS. |
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Antonio Matías Moro Muñoz, Associate EditorUniversity of Seville, Spain Antonio received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Seville (Spain) in 2001. He moved to the Technical University of Lisbon where he worked as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2004, he returned to the University of Seville with a research contract, becoming associate professor in 2010 and full professor in 2020. In 2021, he was appointed head of the Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics. He works in theoretical nuclear physics, with emphasis in the description of the structure and reactions of weakly-bound and exotic nuclei. Much of his research work is performed in close collaboration with experimental groups, participating actively in the interpretation of nuclear reaction data measured at several radioactive beam facilities worldwide, such as ISOLDE (CERN), GANIL (France), RIBRAS (Brazil), Notre Dame (USA) and RIBF-RIKEN (Japan). Antonio is also a member of the GANIL and RIKEN-RIBF PAC committees. |
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Brad Rubin, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Brad received a B.S. from the University of Maryland in College Park and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University in 1990 (high-energy physics). He subsequently held research positions at NASA in Huntsville, Alabama and the Riken Institute in Japan. He joined PRB in 1999 and PRC in 2005 and is also the journal manager of PRFluids. |
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Rob Timmermans, Associate EditorUniversity of Groningen, The Netherlands Rob received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Nijmegen in 1991. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he moved to the University of Groningen on a fellowship of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, following which he became full professor of theoretical physics in 2003. His research interests include low-energy hadron physics, few-body physics, and low-energy tests of the symmetries of the Standard Model. He has served as Associate Editor of PRC since 2015. |
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Ramona Vogt, Associate EditorLawrence Livermore National Laboratory and University of California, Davis, USA Ramona Vogt is a member of the Nuclear Data and Theory group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and an adjunct professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UC Davis. She received her Ph.D. in nuclear theory from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1989. Her research interests include heavy flavor phenomenology and nuclear fission. She has been active in the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics and the APS Division of Nuclear Physics. Ramona is an APS Fellow and an APS Outstanding Referee. She has previously been an editorial board member for PRC and PRResearch and joined the PRC editorial team as an Associate Editor in 2023. |
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Lin Zhang, Assistant EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Lin Zhang received her Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from the IHEP of the CAS. She also holds a master's degree in theoretical nuclear physics. After working as a postdoctoral researcher at TTU/FNAL, she joined the APS editorial team in 2006 and PRC in 2008. Her editorial experience includes handling manuscripts across a broad spectrum of research topics in PRA, PRE, PRResearch, and PRC. |
Editorial Board
Term ending 31 December 2024
Stephane Goriely, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels
Kouichi Hagino, Kyoto University, Japan.
Roy A. Lacey, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
Scott Pratt, Michigan State University, USA
Ingo Wiedenhöver, Florida State University, USA
Term ending 31 December 2025
David J. Dean, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, USA
Alessandra Fantoni, INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy
Susan Gardner, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
Or Hen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Adam Maj, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Term ending 31 December 2026
Catherine M. Deibel, Louisiana State University, USA
Nicole d’Hose, CEA Saclay, France
Bernard Pire, Centre Physique Théorique, École Polytechnique, France
Sofia Quaglioni, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Piet Van Duppen, KU Leuven, Belgium