APS has selected Dr. Hugues Chaté, a senior scientist at the CEA-Saclay, France, to serve as interim Editor of Physical Review Letters. Hugues will take over this role from Pierre Meystre, who is now the Editor in Chief for the Physical Review family of journals.
“We will soon start a search for a permanent Editor. In the meantime, I am absolutely confident that with Hugues at its helm PRL will be in excellent hands,” said Pierre Meystre, APS Editor in Chief.
Hugues 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 served on the board of Physical Review E and is currently a Divisional Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters.
