Editorial Board of Physical Review Letters
APS Publications Leadership and Management
Editorial Roles in the Physical Review Journals
Editors of Physical Review Letters
Robert Garisto, Chief Editor
American Physical Society, USA
Robert received his Ph.D. in theoretical high energy physics at the University of Michigan, and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Canadian National Lab TRIUMF. He joined PRL in 1994. Robert was elected an APS Fellow in 2013. You can follow him on Twitter @RobertGaristo.
Hugues Chaté, Lead Editor
CEA-Saclay, France
Hugues is a senior scientist at the CEA-Saclay, France. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1989 from Université Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris. After a short postdoctoral stay at Bell Laboratories, he joined the condensed matter physics department in Saclay. His research covers a wide range of topics ranging from nonlinear dynamics to statistical physics and critical phenomena to active matter. He was recently the leader of the Advanced Study Group “Statistical Physics of Collective Motion” at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany. He has served on the board of Physical Review E and as a Divisional Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters.
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Abhishek Agarwal, Senior EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Abhishek received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 2005. He joined PRL in 2009 after postdoctoral research stints at the City College of the City University of New York and the Albert Einstein Institute for Gravitational Physics (Max Planck Institute) in Potsdam. Abhishek's research interests lie in the study of gauge and string theories. |
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Serena Dalena, Senior EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Serena obtained her Ph.D. in the physics of complex systems at the University of Calabria, Italy. Within a Marie Curie project, she worked as postdoctoral fellow at the University of Delaware. Her research involved the study of particle and field dynamics in space plasmas, such as the solar corona, the solar wind and the Earth's magnetosphere. Serena joined PRL in 2013. |
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Samindranath Mitra, Senior EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Samindranath (Sami) received his Ph.D. at Indiana University (Bloomington) in 1994, where he worked on certain theoretical aspects of the quantum Hall effect. After a stint working on chemical physics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, Sami arrived at Physical Review Letters. He handles papers on mainly transport properties in semiconductors, 2D materials, and mesoscopic systems. |
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Rocio Cortes, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Rocio received her Ph.D. in physics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Prior to joining the APS, she was a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Rocio has also worked at the Ultrafast Surface Dynamics Research Group at Freie Universität Berlin, and at the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Society, Germany where she was awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship. Rocio joined PRL in 2014. |
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Kevin Dusling, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Kevin received his Ph.D. at Stony Brook University in 2008. He came to PRL in 2013 following postdoctoral research positions at North Carolina State University and Brookhaven National Laboratory. His research interests lie in high energy QCD and the phenomenology of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. |
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Donavan Hall, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA After completing his Ph.D. at Louisiana State University in 1997, Donavan spent five years at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida primarily conducting magnetic measurements on strongly correlated materials. He joined PRL in 2002. |
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Stojan Rebic, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Stojan received his Ph.D. in theoretical quantum optics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2002. He held positions at the University of Camerino, Italy, and Macquarie University, and Australian National University, in Australia before joining PRL in 2012. |
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Mu Wang, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Mu Wang received his Ph.D. in 1991 at Nanjing University, and went on to work as a postdoctoral researcher at Nijmegen University, Netherlands. He received the Chien-Shiung Wu Physics Award from the Chinese Physical Society in 1992 and the Distinguished Young Scholar Fund from the NSF of China in 1994. He was honored in 2007 with the National Award for Natural Sciences by the Chinese State Department. Mu is a fellow of the IOP, UK, and the APS. His research interests focus on interfacial growth mechanisms, self-organization in crystallization, plasmonics and metamaterials. Before joining PRL in 2014, Mu was the Cheung-Kong Professor in condensed matter physics at Nanjing University and the Director of National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures. Mu is also the outreach coordinator for the APS journals in China. |
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Dhawal Buaria, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Dhawal received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. After his Ph.D., he first held a postdoctoral position jointly at Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization and ENS de Lyon, and thereafter at New York University. His research focuses on utilizing large-scale computing to fundamentally investigate turbulent flows and associated transport phenomena, while simultaneously developing data-driven models using machine learning techniques. He joined PRL in 2023. |
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Agnese Curatolo, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Agnese obtained her Ph.D. at Université Paris-Diderot in 2017. Before joining PRL in 2021, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, studying self-assembly in complex systems and soft matter. |
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Olga Dudko, Associate EditorUniversity of California, San Diego, USA Olga is a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. She obtained her Ph.D. (2001) in theoretical physics from B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Ukraine. After postdoctoral appointments at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and at the National Institutes of Health, USA, she joined the physics faculty at UC San Diego in 2007. Her current research covers a range of problems in theoretical biophysics and is animated by the notion that deep physics-based conceptual approaches can encompass living-system complexity. Olga has been an Associate Editor at PRL since 2019. |
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Sonja Grondalski, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Sonja received her Ph.D. in physics at the University of New Mexico in 2003. She was an NSF postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College London, UK. Sonja joined PRL in 2006. |
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Nikhil Karthik, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Nikhil received his Ph.D. in theoretical high-energy physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. Prior to joining PRL in 2022, he held postdoctoral research positions at Florida International University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Jefferson Lab. His research interests concern nonperturbative aspects of the strong QCD interaction. |
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Frank Narducci, Associate EditorNaval Postgraduate School, USA Frank received his Ph.D. at the University of Rochester in 1996 and joined the Naval Air Systems Command as a civilian research scientist. In 2017, he moved to the Naval Postgraduate School, where he is currently an associate professor of physics and where he heads the atomic physics research group, studying future Naval sensors based on atom interferometers and quantum coherent effects in warm cells. He has been an Associate Editor for PRA since 1999 and an Associate Editor for PRL since 2000. |
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Martin Rodriguez-Vega, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Martin received his Ph.D. in physics at William & Mary, Virginia, in 2016. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Indiana University, the University of Texas at Austin & Northeastern University, and later as a Director's postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research interests lie in nonequilibrium and topological aspects of condensed matter systems. He joined PRL in 2021. |
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Sharmila Shirodkar, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Sharmila received her Ph.D. in computational materials science from the Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, India in 2014. Prior to joining PRL in 2023, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University and Rice University, and later as a research scientist at Howard University. Her research interests include analytical and theoretical modeling of nano-materials from the surface to bulk using first-principles calculations. |
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Alessandro Villar, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Alessandro S. Villar received his Ph.D. from the University of São Paulo (Brazil). After a first postdoctoral term at the University of Innsbruck (Austria), he worked at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (Germany) as a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow. He held the position of assistant professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil). In 2015, Alessandro joined PRX as an Associate Editor, before moving to PRL in 2018. His expertise is in quantum-information research and quantum optics. |
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Raphael Voituriez, Associate EditorCNRS-UPMC, France Raphael is a CNRS senior scientist at Sorbonne University (Paris, France) and Professor of physics at Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) . He obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 2002 from Université Paris XI - Orsay. After a postdoctoral appointment at Institut Curie (Paris), he joined the condensed matter theory and biophysics departments at Sorbonne University. His research covers different topics ranging from statistical physics and stochastic processes to biology inspired physics, from single molecule to cell and tissue scales. |
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Kyle Welch, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Kyle obtained his Ph.D. in statistical and soft matter physics in 2016 at the University of Oregon. He went on to work as a postdoctoral researcher studying the physics of active matter, jointly appointed in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota and the Complex Systems Division at the Beijing Computational Science Research Center. He joined the PRL editorial team in 2019. In addition to his work in physics, Kyle also holds a B.S. in Neuroscience from Washington State University. |
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Valerio Lucarini, Consulting EditorUniversity of Reading , UK Valerio Lucarini is professor of statistical mechanics at the University of Reading (UK), where he also directs the Centre for the Mathematics of Planet Earth. His main research interests are non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, extreme events, large deviation theory, critical transitions, climate dynamics, climate change, numerical modelling, data-driven methods. He is recipient of the 2010 EGU Arne Richter Prize, of the 2018 LMS Whitehead Prize, of the 2020 EGU L.-F. Richardson Medal, of the 2022 SIAM Mathematics of Planet Earth Prize, and has delivered the 2021 AGU Ed Lorenz Lecture. He is a member of Academia Europaea, and fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. |
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Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Consulting EditorUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, USA Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is a Professor and the Vera Rubin Presidential Chair of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). He is a theoretical astrophysicist with interests in a wide variety of problems, including black holes, gravitational wave sources, plasma astrophysics, and galactic chemical evolution. After studying at the University of Cambridge, he was the John Bahcall Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Since joining the UCSC faculty in 2007, Ramirez-Ruiz has won a number of awards for his research, including a Packard Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, the Niels Bohr Professorship, the Edward A. Bouchet Award (APS) and the HEAD Mid-Career Prize (AAS). He is a fellow of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, American Physical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
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Valerie L. Miller, Lead Technical EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Valerie started her career at the APS in1984, after working at AIP as a Journal Supervisor for production of Physical Review B. Since then, Valerie has served as Assistant Editor for several of the APS journals including PRA, PRB, and PRE. Her current responsibilities for PRL include cover image selection, technical editing, and production-related issues. |
Editorial Board (Divisional Associate Editors)
Astrophysics
Dan Hooper, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), USA
Sanjay Reddy, University of Washington, USA
Tracy Slatyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Luiz Davidovich, Texas A&M University, USA and University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Juan José García-Ripoll, Instituto de Física Fundamental (CSIC), Spain
Erich J. Mueller, Cornell University, USA
Meera Parish, Monash University, Australia
Gerhard Rempe, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany
Marc Vrakking, Max Born Institute (MBI), Germany
Susanne Yelin, Harvard University, USA
Roberta Zambrini, Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC), Spain
Biological Physics
Naama Brenner, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Michael Murrell, Yale University, USA
Tatyana Olegivna Sharpee, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
Cecile Sykes, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
Chemical Physics
J. I. Juaristi, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain
Sabine Maier, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany
Katarzyna Pernal, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Computational Physics
Antoine Georges, College de France, France
Condensed Matter Physics
Alexander Altland, University of Cologne, Germany
Annica Black-Schaffer, Uppsala University, Sweden
Claudio Cazorla, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Yangfeng Chen, Nanjing University, China
Alexander L. Chernyshev, University of California, Irvine, USA
Pengcheng Dai, Rice University, USA
Gregory A. Fiete, Northeastern University, USA
Luis E. F. Foa Torres, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Arun Paramekanti, University of Toronto, Canada
Patrick Rinke, Aalto University, Finland
Filip Ronning, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Nitin Samarth, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Efrat Shimshoni, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Jairo Sinova, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
Carsten Timm, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Emanuel Tutuc, University of Texas, USA
Damien Vandembroucq, ESPCI Paris, France
Kun Yang, Florida State University, USA
Energy Research and Applications
Matthew Beard, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
Fluid Dynamics
Alain Pumir, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France and Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany
Laurence Ramos, University of Montpellier, France
Eric R. Weeks, Emory University, USA
Ke-Qing Xia, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Gravitational Physics
Abhay Ashtekar, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
B. S. Sathyaprakash, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Laser Science
Deniz D. Yavuz, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
Materials Physics
Nicholas Barrett, CEA Saclay, France
Shuai Dong, Southeast University, China
Elif Ertekin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Zheng-you Liu, Wuhan University, China
Sergio M. Rezende, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Nuclear Physics
Ralf Peter Averbeck, GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Germany
Hannah Elfner, GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy-Ion Research, Germany
Cristina Manuel, Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC, IEEC), Spain
Peter Petreczky, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Dario Vretenar, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Michiharu Wada, KEK, Japan
Alan H. Wuosmaa, University of Connecticut, USA
Particles and Fields
Nicole Bell, University of Melbourne, Australia
Markus Diehl, DESY, Germany
Daniel N. Kabat, Lehman College, USA
Tamás G. Kovács, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Greg Landsberg, Brown University, USA
Enrico Nardi, I.N.F.N. - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy
Physics of Beams
Andrzej Wolski, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Physics of Climate
Pierre Gentine, Columbia Univrsity, USA
Plasma Physics
Dan Dubin, University of California, San Diego, USA
William W. Heidbrink, University of California, Irvine, USA
Masahiro Hoshino, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Andrea Macchi, CNR/INO, Italy
Annick Pouquet, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
Matthew Zepf, Helmholtz Institut Jena, Germany
Polymer Physics
Kari Dalnoki-Veress, McMaster University, Canada
Xiaoming Mao, University of Michigan, USA
Daniel J. Read, University of Leeds, UK
Friederike Schmid, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
Andrew N. Jordan, Chapman University, USA
Hyunchul Nha, Texas A&M University, USA
Quantum Information
Daniel Lidar, University of Southern California, USA
Xiongfeng Ma, Tsinghua University, China
Alexander V. Sergienko, Boston University, USA
Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College, USA
Soft Matter
Tanniemola B. Liverpool, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Kirsten Martens, Grenoble Alpes University and French National Centre for Scientific Research, France
Felipe Pacheco-Vázquez, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico
Alois Wurger, University of Bordeaux, France
Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Dynamics
Alain Barrat, Centre de Physique Théorique, France
Massimilian Esposito, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Silvina Ponce Dawson, FCEN-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Shinichi Sasa, Kyoto University, Japan
Igor M. Sokolov, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Julien Tailleur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Yuhai Tu, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Pan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China