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Michael Thoennessen

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Jessica Thomas

Physical Review X Staff

Jean Michel Raimond

Jean-Michel Raimond, Editor

Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Jean-Michel Raimond is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Sorbonne Université, Paris, where he received his Doctorate in 1984. His research, at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, is focused on the exploration of quantum physics with cavity quantum electrodynamics tools. He is a honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France and a member of the Academia Europaea. He has received several distinguished awards, including the Humboldt and EPS Edison-Volta prizes. He has been Editor in Chief of the *European Physical Journal D* and a Divisional Associate Editor at PRL.

Ling Miao

Ling Miao, Managing Editor

American Physical Society, Ridge, NY, USA
Ling Miao received her B.Sc. in theoretical high-energy physics from the University of Science and Technology of China and her Ph.D. in statistical physics, soft condensed matter physics, and biophysics from Simon Fraser University in Canada. She also has a strong interest in a broad range of subject areas of physics beyond those of her specialization. She was an Associate Professor in Physics at the University of Southern Denmark before joining Physical Review Letters as an editor in 2005.

Dario Corradini, Associate Editor

American Physical Society, Ridge, NY, USA
Dario Corradini received his Ph.D. in computational physics from University Roma Tre, Italy. He did his postdoctoral research at Boston University and as a CNRS research fellow at Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris) and at École Normale Supérieure. His research interests include theoretical statistical physics of complex liquids and ionic materials, as well as biological and environmental physics.

Yun Li, Associate Editor

American Physical Society, Shanghai, China
Yun Li received her Ph.D. from a joint program between Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris and East China Normal University in China, performing theoretical research in the field of ultracold quantum gases. She worked as a DECREA Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, after two postdoctoral stints at the University of Trento in Italy and at the National University of Singapore. Before joining PRX in March, 2021, she was a senior editor of Nature Physics.

Mauro Schiulaz, Associate Editor

American Physical Society, Ridge, NY, USA
Mauro Schiulaz received his Ph.D. from the International School for Advanced Studies (ISAS) in Trieste, Italy. He most recently worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Yeshiva University where he performed research in quantum chaotic systems, many-body localization, and open quantum systems. His previous postdoctoral work was at Boston University where he performed research in classical disordered systems, detonations in inhomogeneous systems, and disordered superconductors. He became a full-time member of the PRX editorial team September, 2019.

Paul Snijders, Associate Editor

American Physical Society, Ridge, NY, USA
Paul received his M.Sc. in Materials Science and Technology at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands working on the characterization of the structure of ultrathin disordered oxide films using photoelectron spectroscopy. He received his Ph.D. at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology studying electronic instabilities and structural fluctuations in self-assembled atom wires. He worked as a Wigner Fellow and research staff member at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for 10 years before joining PRB in 2017. He is now a part-time member of the PRX editorial team.

Yiming Xu, Associate Editor

American Physical Society, Ridge, NY, USA
Yiming Xu received his B.Sc. from Nanjing University in China and his Ph.D. from Boston College, both in experimental condensed matter physics. Prior to joining PRX in 2014, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focus was on the electronic properties of strongly correlated materials.

Victor Vakaryuk, Associate Editor

American Physical Society, Ridge, NY, USA
Victor Vakaryuk received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Lab and at Johns Hopkins University. His research topics include exotic superconductivity, graphene, and transport in nanostructures. He joined PRB in 2013 and is now a long-term, part-time member of the PRX editorial team.

Consulting Editors

Marcus Huber, Consulting Editor

IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Marcus Huber is a group leader at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna in 2010 and has since worked at the University of Bristol, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) and the University of Geneva. His research focus is currently connected to high-dimensional quantum information and the exploration of thermodynamics of quantum systems. His interdisciplinary group covers mathematical, foundational as well as applied-theoretical and sometimes even experimental research.

Bill Munro, Consulting Editor

NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Atsugi, Japan
Bill received his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He joined NTT's Basic Research Laboratories (Tokyo) in 2010 where he became a senior distinguished scientist in 2016. Bill is an APS, OSA and IOP Fellow. He served as a Board member of Physical Review A from 2013-2018 and became an Associate Editor in 2019. His main research interests are focussed in quantum optics, quantum information, and hybrid systems. He has worked on various aspects of entanglement detection, quantum communication, quantum computation and hybrid quantum systems. Bill works remotely from Tokyo.

Alexander Streltsov, Consulting Editor

Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Poland
Alexander Streltsov received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Düsseldorf in 2013. The research during his Ph.D. was awarded with a prize for the best dissertation from the German Physical Society. In the years from 2013 to 2017 he was a Humboldt Fellow at ICFO in Barcelona, Spain, and at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. From 2017 to 2018 he was a principal investigator at Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland. Since December 2018 he has been a group leader at the Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Poland. His research is currently focused on theoretical investigations of fundamental quantum phenomena, such as entanglement and coherence, and their applications in quantum technologies.
To broaden further its editorial competence, PRX is happy to benefit from the support of the Associate Editors of Reviews of Modern Physics as consulting editors.
RMP Associate Editor Institution Area of expertise
Hiroaki Aihara University of Tokyo Experimental particle physics
Dietrich Belitz University of Oregon Theoretical condensed matter physics
Margaret S. Cheung University of Houston & Rice University Biological Physics
William D. Collins University of California at Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Climate Science
Marjolein Dijkstra University of Utrecht Soft Condensed Matter
David DiVincenzo Forschungszentrum Jülich Quantum Information
Frances Hellman University of California, Berkeley Experimental condensed matter physics
Wim Leemans DESY Physics of plasmas and beams
Klaus Mølmer University of Aarhus Atom, molecular, and optical physics
Karin Rabe Rutgers University Theoretical condensed matter physics
Pierre Ramond University of Florida Theoretical Particle physics
Dam Thanh Son University of Chicago Mathematical physics
Roxanne Springer Duke University Nuclear physics
Mark D. Stiles National Institute of Standards and Technology Applied and materials physics
Véronique Van Elewyck Universite Paris Diderot Astrophysics

Editorial Board

Felix Baumberger

Felix Baumberger, Experimental condensed matter physics

University of Geneva and Swiss Light Source, PSI, Switzerland

Felix Baumberger is a Professor of Physics at the University of Geneva and holds a joint affiliation at the Swiss Light Source. His group uses angle resolved photoemission to study correlated metallic states, metal-insulator transitions, oxide interfaces, and van der Waals materials. He is also interested in advancing instrumentation for electron spectroscopy, was responsible for the concept of the ARPES beamline I05 at Diamond Light Source, and has been the recipient of an ERC grant for laser-based ARPES.

Clemens Bechinger

Clemens Bechinger, Experimental statistical physics, soft matter physics

University of Konstanz, Germany

Clemens Bechinger holds the chair position of soft condensed matter physics in the Physics Department at the University of Konstanz, Germany. His group uses colloidal systems, polymer solutions, and binary mixtures as model systems to address fundamental questions in the field of statistical physics and also condensed matter. Examples include stochastic thermodynamics, critical Casimir forces, quasicrystals, superlubricity, and more recently, behavior of self-driven colloidal particles which mimic many features of living systems. In 2000, he was awarded the prestigious Walter-Schottky Prize for his contributions on structural properties and phase transitions with colloidal model systems, and he has been an appointed Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems since 2007. He is currently a recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant for the investigation of self-propelled particles.

Bulbul Chakraborty

Bulbul Chakraborty, Statistical physics, soft matter physics

Brandeis University, USA

Bulbul Chakraborty is the Enid and Nate Ancell Professor of Physics at Brandeis University. She is a theoretical physicist who has worked on a broad range of problems in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics. The current focus of her research is on understanding the emergent behavior of athermal systems such as granular materials, non-Brownian suspensions, and active matter. Chakraborty is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Aashish Clerk

Aashish Clerk, Quantum optics and condensed matter physics

University of Chicago, USA

Aashish Clerk is a theoretical physicist and Professor in the Institute of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. His group's research is at the intersection of quantum optics, condensed matter physics, and quantum information. A general theme is the physics of driven-dissipative quantum systems, with an emphasis on engineered quantum systems such as superconducting circuits and optomechanical cavities. He is a past recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Rutherford Memorial Medal of the Royal Society of Canada, and the E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship of Canada's National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC).

Xi Dai

Xi Dai, Condensed matter physics

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Xi Dai is Professor of Physics at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research group covers the electronic structure studies on topological and strongly correlated materials. Using modern computational techniques for electronic structure study, he and his group have predicted several very important topological materials, including the Bi2Se3 family as 3D topological insulators, Cr-doped Bi2Te3 thin film as a quantum anomalous Hall system, and the TaAs family as Weyl semimetals. He received the “Achievements in Asia Award” in 2012 from The International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers (OCPA) and the “Fundamental Physics Prize” in 2014 from the K. C. Chou Foundation. He has been listed as a “Highly Cited Researcher” by Thomson Reuters since 2014, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He also serves on the Editorial Board of Physical Review Materials.

Mark Dean

Mark Dean, Experimental condensed matter physics

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA

Mark Dean is a Physicist in the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory. His research program is centered on resonant elastic and inelastic x-ray scattering studies of high temperature superconductors, strongly spin-orbit coupled materials, and complex oxide heterostructures. In 2014 he was a recipient of the Department of Energy Early Career Award.

Eric Dufresne

Eric Dufresne, Soft matter physics

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

Eric Dufresne is the Professor of Soft and Living Materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH). His research focuses on the physics of soft matter. Current topics include interfacial properties, mechanics, and self-assembly in biological and synthetic systems. Before moving to ETH, Eric Dufresne was a professor at Yale University. In recognition for his broad contributions to soft matter research, he was awarded the 2014 Soft Matter Lectureship by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Steven Flammia

Steven Flammia, Quantum information and quantum computation

AWS Center for Quantum Computing, USA

Steven Flammia is a Principal Research Scientist at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing, and prior to that was a Professor in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. His research addresses two aspects of noise in quantum devices: how to efficiently estimate quantum noise, and how to effectively eliminate noise using quantum error correction and quantum fault tolerance. He proudly serves on the steering committees of the two major quantum information theory conferences, QIP and TQC. He was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship from 2014–2018 and received the Pawsey Medal of the Australian Academy of Science in 2019 for his work on quantum noise metrology.

Bruce Gaulin

Bruce Gaulin, Experimental condensed matter physics

McMaster University, Canada

Bruce Gaulin is Distinguished University Professor and Brockhouse Chair in the Physics of Materials at McMaster University, where he serves as Director of the Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research. His research expertise lies in the application of forefront neutron and x-ray scattering techniques to topical problems in quantum materials, often involving exotic magnetic ground states. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Physical Society, and the Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA). Gaulin has served as President of the NSSA and is currently Vice-President of the Canadian Association of Physicists.

Benjamin Lev

Benjamin Lev, Quantum optics, quantum gases, quantum many-body physics

Stanford University, CA, USA

Benjamin Lev is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. He explores quantum many-body physics using techniques at the interface of quantum gas physics, quantum optics, and condensed matter physics. Recent focus has been on excited 1D dipolar gases; confocal cavity QED for creating dynamical lattices, spin glasses, and neural networks; and scanning probe microcopy with quantum gas sensors. Lev received his A.B. from Princeton in 1999 and his Ph.D. from Caltech in 2005. His awards include a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and young investigator awards from the Air Force, Navy, and DARPA.

Benjamin Lindner

Benjamin Lindner, Theoretical statistical physics, biological physics

Humboldt University Berlin and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Germany

Benjamin Lindner is Professor for the Theory of Complex Systems and Neurophysics at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin and the Physics Department of Humboldt University Berlin. His research focuses on applying concepts and methods from statistical physics to study stochastic dynamics of complex biological systems, predominantly in neuroscience.

Victor Malka

Victor Malka, Laser-plasma interaction and particle accelerators

The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

For three decades, Victor Malka was a CNRS Research Director at Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée and a Professor at Ecole Polytechnique. He is now a Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. He has worked on a range of topics, including atomic physics, inertial fusion, and laser-plasma interaction. His current work is mainly devoted to relativistic laser-plasma interaction, laser-plasma accelerators and related technological applications aimed for societal impact. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the European Physical Society and an Officer of the Physics Division of the European Academy of Science. He has been awarded two Advanced Grants and three Proof-of-Concept Grants from the European Research Council.

Xavier Marie

Xavier Marie, Condensed matter physics, semiconductor optoelectronics

University of Toulouse, France

Xavier Marie is Professor of Physics at the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) at the University of Toulouse and also Director of the Laboratory of Excellence NEXT (Nano, EXtreme measurements and Theory). He has been a Senior Member at the Institut Universitaire de France since 2015. His research focuses on electronic and optical properties of low-dimensional semiconductor structures (quantum wells, quantum dots, 2D materials). His current research topics include the optical, electronic, and spin coherence in semiconductor nanostructures and band structure engineering of semiconductors for optical telecommunication devices and solar cells.

Igor Mazin, Condensed matter physics

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

Igor Mazin is now a professor in the Department of physics at George Mason University after his long service at the Center for Materials Science and Technology of the Naval Research Laboratory. His main research interest is in combining analytical and computational methods to advance electronic theory of superconducting, magnetic, and other solid-state materials. He has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 2004 and received the 2018 Bardeen Prize for his work on superconductivity. He was on the 2014 Thomson-Reuters list of the world's most influential scientific minds. From 2010 to 2015 he served on the Editorial Board of Physical Review B.

Iain Moore, Experimental nuclear physics, in particular, using laser spectroscopy

University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Iain Moore is currently a Professor of Physics at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research group combines methodology from nuclear, atomic, and laser physics for the study of the structure of exotic nuclei, as well as in the production and manipulation of rare isotope beams. He holds a number of international positions including acting as current Spokesperson for the LaSpec collaboration at the future facility, FAIR, Germany.

John Morton, Experimental nanoelectronics and nanophotonics

UCL, London, United Kingdom

John Morton is Professor of Nanoelectronics & Nanophotonics at the London Centre for Nanotechnology at UCL, and Director of UCL Quantum Science and Technology Institute, UCLQ. His group studies the quantum dynamics of electron and nuclear spins in materials and nano-devices, towards applications in quantum computing and sensing. His awards include the Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Physical Sciences, Moseley Medal and Prize (Institute of Physics), Nicholas Kurti European Science Prize, and Cavendish Medal (SET for Britain). He is a recipient of European Research Council Starter and Consolidator Grants and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.

Adilson E. Motter, Complex networks, nonlinear dynamics

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Adilson E. Motter is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University. He is a theoretical physicist with research interests in the dynamics of complex networks and systems. Recent honors include an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a NSF CAREER Award, the Erdös-Rényi Prize in Network Science, and a Simons Foundation Fellowship in Theoretical Physics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a former chair of the APS Topical Group on Statistical & Nonlinear Physics.

Mike Norman

Mike Norman, Condensed matter physics

Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Mike Norman is an Argonne Distinguished Fellow and Director of the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He is also a principal investigator in the Center for Emergent Superconductivity, a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center. He became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1995, received the University of Chicago Distinguished Performance Award in 1999, and served on the Editorial Board of *Physical Review B* from 2000 to 2005. His research interests include heavy-fermion and high-temperature cuprate superconductors, spin liquids, and quantum criticality.

Mike Norman

Johnpierre Paglione, Experimental condensed matter physics

University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

Johnpierre Paglione is a Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials at the University of Maryland. His team has contributed to several fields of experimental condensed matter research through both single-crystal synthesis of superconducting, quantum-critical and topological materials, as well as exploration of novel phenomena. He is a leader in the field of quantum criticality and has made important contributions to the understanding of heavy-fermion materials and the quasiparticle picture of correlated materials. Recently, he has pursued several new areas of research including iron-based high-temperature superconductivity and topological insulators and superconductors. He is the recipient of a National Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and an Early Career Award from the Department of Energy, a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Materials Synthesis Award, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Arno Rauschenbeutel

Arno Rauschenbeutel, Experimental quantum optics and nanophotonics

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Arno Rauschenbeutel is Chair Professor for the Fundamentals of Optics and Photonics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on experimental quantum optics, nanophotonics, hybrid quantum systems, optical nanofibers, and optical microresonators. His group has pioneered the use of subwavelength-diameter optical fibers in quantum optical experiments. Arno Rauschenbeutel received a Marie Curie Excellence Award (EC), a European Young Investigators Award (ESF), a Lichtenberg-Professorship (Volkswagen-Foundation), an ERC Consolidator Grant, and an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation).

Cindy Regal

Cindy Regal, Experimental atomic, optical, and mesoscopic physics

JILA, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Cindy Regal is a Fellow of JILA, a joint institute between the University of Colorado and NIST, and an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado. Her experimental work in quantum physics lies at the interface of atomic physics, optical sciences, and solid-state devices. She was a recipient of a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

David Saintillan

David Saintillan, Theoretical fluid dynamics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California San Diego, USA

David Saintillan is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California San Diego. He received his B.Sc. from Ecole Polytechnique in France in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2006. Prior to joining UCSD, he worked as a Research Scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the theory and simulation of complex fluids, transport phenomena, active soft matter, and biophysical systems. He was the recipient of the 2007 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics and of the 2011 Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and currently a Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics.

Irfan Siddiqi

Irfan Siddiqi, Experimental quantum information processing based on superconducting circuits

University of California at Berkley, USA

Irfan Siddiqi is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California at Berkley and a Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Siddiqi and his research group, the Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory, focus on the development of advanced superconducting circuits for quantum information processing, including computation and metrology. Siddiqi is also the founding director of the interdisciplinary Center for Quantum Coherent Science at Berkeley. Siddiqi received his A.B. in chemistry & physics from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in applied physics from Yale University. Siddiqi is the recipient of many awards, including the APS George E. Valley Prize and the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award.

Irfan Siddiqi

Olga Smirnova, Ultrafast atomic, molecular, and materials science

Max Born Institute and Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Olga Smirnova graduated from the Physics Department of the Moscow State University in 1996 and received her Ph.D. there in 2000, continuing as assistant professor. In 2003 she received the Lise-Meitner Fellowship of Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) and joined the Vienna University of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2005 she moved to the National Research Council (NRC) in Ottawa, Canada, where she became a permanent staff scientist in 2006. In 2009 she received the SAW award of the Leibniz society and moved to the Max Born Institute to establish her own Strong Field Theory research group, which she continues to lead. Since 2016 she also holds full professorship at the Technical University Berlin. Olga received the Karl-Scheel-Preis of Physikalischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin in 2010 and the Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science & Technology of the American Chemical Society in 2020 for her “pioneering contributions in attosecond strong-field physics, including attosecond high harmonic spectroscopy of electron dynamics and the discovery of electron spin polarization during optical tunneling.” Olga’s current research focuses on imaging and control of ultrafast electron dynamics in atoms, solid state materials, and molecules, especially chiral molecules.

Masahito Ueda

Mikhail Tikhonov, Theoretical physics, Ecology, and Evolution

Washington University in St Louis, USA

Mikhail Tikhonov is a theoretical physicist and an Assistant Professor at Washington University in St Louis. His group applies ideas and methods from statistical physics to study eco-evolutionary feedbacks in high-diversity microbial ecosystems, and evolution in changing or fluctuating environments. He received his Master's degree from Ecole Normale Superieure in 2009 and his PhD from Princeton in 2014. Other interests include information theory and bioinformatics.

Masahito Ueda

Kiyoshi Ueda, Atomic, molecular and cluster science, ultrafast X-ray science

Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Kiyoshi Ueda is a professor at the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials at Tohoku University. His research interest focuses on electronic and structural dynamics of various forms of matter. His group has been developing and applying a range of spectroscopic and imaging techniques that use low-emittance synchrotron radiation, femtosecond lasers, and short-wavelength (XUV--X-ray) free-electron lasers (FELs) to study such dynamics. He was an international councillor of the American Physical Society from 2014 to 2017. He regularly serves on the international review panels for large light-source facilities, including GSI Helmholz Center, MPI center at CFEL, LCLS at SLAC, FLASH at DESY, FERMI at Elettra, and also serves on review panels for their research programs and proposals.

Masahito Ueda

Masahito Ueda, Theoretical quantum many-body (gases) physics, quantum information thermodynamics

The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Masahito Ueda is Professor of Physics at the University of Tokyo. His research group covers a range of interdisciplinary topics of theoretical physics, including ultracold atomic gases, nonequilibrium and topological quantum phenomena, and information-theoretical as well as foundational aspects of thermodynamics and statistical physics.

Aashish Clerk

Matthias Weidemüller, Atomic, molecular, and optical Physics, quantum control and engineering

University of Heidelberg, Germany

Matthias Weidemüller is Chair Professor for Experimental Physics at the University of Heidelberg and Director of the Heidelberg Center for Quantum Dynamics. He currently also serves as the Dean of the Department for Physics and Astronomy. His group investigates interactions in atomic and molecular aggregates on different levels of complexity, using modern methods of quantum control and quantum engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was Chairman of the Division Atoms, Molecules, Quantum Optics and Plasmas of the German Physical Society from 2011to 2015. Since 2013 he has been establishing a laboratory in Shanghai, China, at the University of Science and Technology of China within the framework of the Thousand Talents Plan of the Chinese Government.

Lenka Zdeborová

Lenka Zdeborová, Theoretical statistical physics, machine learning, algorithms

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Lenka Zdeborová is a Professor of Physics and of Computer Science and Communication Systems at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research is in applications of methods developed in statistical physics, such as advanced mean-field theories, replica method, and related message-passing algorithms, as well as problems in machine learning, signal processing, inference, and optimization. In 2014, she was awarded the CNRS bronze medal and in 2016 she was the recipient of the Philippe Meyer Prize in theoretical physics and an ERC starting grant. She was awarded the Prix Irène Joliot-Curie in 2018.

Slobodan Zumer

Slobodan Žumer, Theoretical soft matter physics

University of Ljubljana and Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Slobodan Žumer is Professor of Physics at the University of Ljubljana and Scientific Adviser at the Jozef Stefan Institute. His research covers simulations, modeling, and theory of different soft matter systems ranging from liquid crystals to colloids and polymers. One of his current research focuses is on topological aspects of complex structures of anisotropic soft matter. He is also interested in the potential of these systems for applications in optics and photonics. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences & Arts and an Honored Member of the International Liquid Crystal Society. He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics (UK).

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