APS has appointed Professor Joseph Kapusta, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota as the Lead Editor of Physical Review C. Professor Kapusta takes the helm following the journal’s previous Lead Editor Benjamin F. Gibson.
Kapusta, an APS Fellow, received his PhD at the University of California – Berkeley in 1978 for studies of QCD at high temperature and high energy heavy ion collisions. After postdoctoral appointments at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and CERN, he joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota where he is a Distinguished University Teaching Professor. He has been an Associate Editor of PRC since 1997 and served on the APS Publications Oversight Committee from 2003 to 2007.
“I am excited that Joe Kapusta accepted our offer to serve as the new Lead Editor for Physical Review C,” said APS Editor in Chief Michael Thoennessen. “As a long-time Associate Editor for the journal, he is intimately familiar with the community. Joe follows the stewardship of Benjamin F. Gibson, who, as a member of the PRC Editorial Board, Associate Editor and, since 2002, as the Lead Editor, was instrumental in maintaining the journal’s status as the premier outlet for nuclear physics research. I would like to thank Ben for his many years of outstanding service, and I am sure the journal has an excellent future with Joe.”
“I am honored to assume the position of Lead Editor for Physical Review C and to work with all the outstanding people associated with it,” said Kapusta. “The journal has had exceptional leadership since its inception in 1970. I anticipate that its authors and referees will continue to make it a journal of the highest quality. Much of the research published in Physical Review C has significant connections to other areas of physics, especially astrophysics, cosmology, and particle physics. I look forward to collaborating with the leadership of the American Physical Society to not only maintain the journal’s reputation, but to search for innovative solutions to the issues that scholarly publishers face in the future.”
