Editorial Board

EPL is run by scientists for the international scientific community. The Editorial Board, which includes the Editor-in-Chief and a team of truly international Co-Editors, is responsible for overseeing the review process, selecting referees and making publication decision for every manuscript.

Editor-in-Chief:

Prof. Richard A. Blythe

School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Edinburgh
Peter Guthrie Tait Road
UK – Edinburgh, EH9 3FD
✆ : +44 131 650 5105
📧 : eic.blythe@epletters.net

Co-Editors:

Johannes Aichele

Celia Anteneodo

Matheus Araújo Marques

Alessandra Continenza

Sebastian Deffner

Maria Carolina de Oliveira Aguiar

Jorge I. Facio

Laura Fanfarillo

Elena González Ferreiro

Jhon W. González Salazar

Galina L. Klimchitskaya

Yun Lai

Xi Lin

María Rosa López Gonzalo

Francisco A. Rodrigues

Frank K. Wilhelm-Mauch

Edward Wilson-Ewing

Chengyin Wu

Yi Zhang

Dr. Johannes Aichele

EXPERIMENT: Geophysics, seismology, medical imaging, ultrasound imaging, wave propagation, time-scattering, interferometric wave imaging - Green’s function retrieval, acoustic and elastic time-reversal, porous wave propagation, Biot slow wave, shear wave elastography, ultrasound elastography, magnetic resonance elastography, snow avalanche initiation, glacial sliding, rupture initiation, laboratory earthquakes, distributed acoustic sensing, (ultrasound) speckle tracking

ETH Zürich
Institut für Geophysik
Sonneggstrasse 5
CH – 8092 Zürich
✆ : +41 44 632 39 80
📧 : johannes.aichele@eaps.ethz.ch

Dr. Celia Anteneodo

THEORY: Stochastic dynamics, non-equilibrium statistical physics, dynamical systems, chaos, self-organization, complex systems, population dynamics, sociophysics

Departamento de Fisica
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro
BR – 22451-900 Rio de Janeiro RJ
✆ : +55 213527-1263
📧 : celia.fis@puc-rio.br
Webpage : Celia Anteneodo

Prof. Matheus Araújo Marques

THEORY: Particles and fields, solitons, topological structures, braneworlds

Departamento de Biotecnologia
Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Campus I, Cidade Universitária – Castelo Branco
BR – 58051-900 – João Pessoa PB
📧 : marques@cbiotec.ufpb.br

Dr. Roberta Arnaldi

EXPERIMENT: Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, quark-gluon plasma, quarkonium

INFN Sezione di Torino
Via Pietro Giuria, 1
I – 10125 Torino – TO
✆ : +390116707384
📧 : arnaldi@to.infn.it

Prof. Matilda Backholm

EXPERIMENT: Soft, living, and fluid matter physics – swimming dynamics, mechanical properties, viscoelasticity, biomechanics, growth dynamics, wetting, capillary phenomena, liquid drops, force measurements, methodology

Department of Applied Physics
Aalto University
P.O. Box 15600 (Konemiehentie 1)
FIN – 00076 Aalto
✆ : +35 8503087488
📧 : matilda.backholm@aalto.fi
Webpage : Matilda Backholm

Prof. Adriano Barra

THEORY: Statistical mechanics of neural networks and learning machines, phase transitions, spin glasses, biological complexity

Dipartimento di Scienze di Base e Applicate per l’Ingegneria (SBAI)
Sapienza Università di Roma
Via Antonio Scarpa, 16
I – 00161 Roma
✆ : +39 3939017422
📧 : adriano.barra@uniroma1.it
📧 : adriano.barra@gmail.com
Webpage : Adriano Barra

Prof. Job Beckers

EXPERIMENT: Plasma Physics, plasma diagnostics, complex plasmas, dusty plasmas, photon-induced plasmas

Eindhoven University of Technology
PO Box 513
NL – 5600 MB Eindhoven
✆ : +31 40 247 4043
📧 : j.beckers@tue.nl
Webpage : Job Beckers

Prof. Micol Benetti

THEORY: Cosmology, observational cosmology, inflationary theory, dark energy, cosmography

Scuola Superiore Meridionale
Via Mezzocannone, 4
I – 80138 – Napoli
📧 : m.benetti@ssmeridionale.it
Webpage : Micol Benetti

Prof. Zhoujian Cao

THEORY: Classical general relativity, fundamental problems and general formalism; initial value problem, existence and uniqueness of solutions, numerical relativity, numerical studies of black holes and black-hole binaries, gravitational waves, wave generation and sources, wave propagation and interactions, gravitational-wave astrophysics, experimental studies of gravity

Beijing Normal University
Department of Astronomy
CHN – Beijing 100875
✆ : +86 15120099066
📧 : zjcao@bnu.edu.cn

Dr. Valerio Capraro

THEORY AND EXPERIMENT : Statistical physics and networks, social and economic systems, social organizations, anthropology, computational social science, dynamics of social systems, multilayer networks

Dipartimento di Psicologia
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo, 1
I – 20126 Milano
📧 : valerio.capraro@unimib.it
Webpage : Valerio Capraro

Prof. Andrey A. Chabanov

EXPERIMENT: Random and disordered media, Anderson localization, topological effects in photonic systems, photonic bandgap materials

Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
USA – San Antonio TX78249
✆ : + 1 210 458-6426
📧 : Andrey.Chabanov@utsa.edu
Webpage : Andrey Chabanov

Dr. Sakuntala Chatterjee

THEORY : Nonequilibrium statistical physics, driven diffusive systems, phase ordering dynamics, interacting particle systems, bacterial chemotaxis, force generation by biopolymers

Department of Theoretical Sciences
S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
IND – 700106 Kolkata
✆ : +91 33 2335 5706/07/08
📧 : sakuntala.chatterjee@bose.res.in
Webpage : Sakuntala Chatterjee

Prof. Alessandra Continenza

THEORY: Electronic structure theory of solids: electronic, structural, dynamical, magnetic, superconducting properties of real solids

Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Università degli studi dell’Aquila
Via Vetoio – Coppito
I – 67100 L’Aquila
✆ : + 39 862 433 055
📧 : alessandra.continenza@univaq.it
Webpage : Alessandra Continenza

Prof. Sebastian Deffner

THEORY: Quantum thermodynamics, quantum chaos, quantum information theory, quantum communication, foundations of quantum mechanics

Department of Physics
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
USA – Baltimore MD 21250
✆ : +1 410 455-1972
📧 : deffner@umbc.edu
Webpage : Sebastian Deffner

Prof. Maria Carolina de Oliveira Aguiar

THEORY: Strongly correlated electrons, Mott physics, interplay between electronic correlations and disorder, unconventional superconductivity, non-equilibrium dynamics of correlated systems, entanglement in correlated systems

Departamento de Física
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG
Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627
BR – 31270-901 Belo Horizonte – MG
✆ : +55 31 3409-5653
📧 : aguiar@fisica.ufmg.br
Webpage : Maria Carolina de Oliveira Aguiar

Dr. Jorge I. Facio

THEORY: Condensed matter theory, electronic structure of solids, density functional theory, topological phases of matter, Berry phase effects

Centro Atómico Bariloche
Av. Exequiel Bustillo 9500
RA – San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro
✆ : + 1 850 644 97 55
📧 : jorge.facio@ib.edu.ar
Webpage : Jorge I. Facio

Dr. Laura Fanfarillo

THEORY: Strongly correlated systems, unconventional superconductivity, multiorbital physics, fluctuation phenomena, transport properties

Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Via dei Taurini, 19
I – 00185 Rome
✆ : +39 06 4993 7636
📧 : laura.fanfarillo@gmail.com
Webpage : Laura Fanfarillo

Prof. Elena González Ferreiro

THEORY: Particle physics, quantum chromodynamics, large hadron collider phenomenology, heavy-ion collisions, quark gluon plasma, parton distribution functions, small-x physics

Departamento de Física de Partículas & IGFAE
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Rúa Xosé María Suárez Núñez, s/n
E – 15782 Santiago de Compostela
✆ : +34 88 1813979
📧 : elena.gonzalez.ferreiro@usc.es

Dr. Jhon W. González Salazar

THEORY: Condensed matter theory, electronic structure, density functional theory, computational materials science, 2D materials

Departamento de Física
Universidad de Antofagasta
Av. Universidad de Antofagasta N° 02800
CL – Antofagasta
✆ : +56 55 263 7833
📧 : JHON.GONZALEZ@uantof.cl
Webpage : Jhon W. González Salazar

Dr. Daniela Grasso

THEORY: Magnetic reconnection, magnetic and fluid instabilities, turbulence and chaos in plasmas, nonlinear physics

CNR-Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi and Politecnico di Torino
Politecnico di Torino
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
I – 10129 Torino
✆ : +39 0110904491
📧 : daniela.grasso@polito.it

Dr. Giulia Gubitosi

THEORY: Phenomenology of quantum gravity, relativity, noncommutative geometry, cosmology, astrophysics

Dipartimento di Fisica Ettore Pancini
Università di Napoli Federico II
Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo
Via Cintia
I – 80126 Napoli
📧 : giulia.gubitosi@unina.it
Webpage : Giulia Gubitosi

Prof. Andreas Hermann

THEORY: Condensed matter theory, electronic structure, density functional theory, high pressure, phase transitions, chemical bonding, planetary materials

School of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Edinburgh
James Clerk Maxwell Building
Peter Guthrie Tait Road
UK – Edinburgh, EH9 3FD
✆ : + 44 131 650 5824
📧 : a.hermann@ed.ac.uk
Webpage : Andreas Hermann

Dr. Jun Jiang

EXPERIMENT: Ferroelectric domain, ferroelectric thin films, ferroelectric and nano-semiconductor devices

School of Microelectronics
Fudan University
CHN – Shanghai 200433
✆ : + 86 21 55664098
📧 : junjiang12@fudan.edu.cn
Webpage : Jun Jiang

Prof. Rongying Jin

EXPERIMENT: Experimental condensed matter physics

University of South Carolina
712 Main Street
USA – Columbia, SC29208
✆ : +1 803 7779987
📧 : rjin@mailbox.sc.edu
Webpage : Rongying Jin

Prof. Tomasz Kapitaniak

THEORY AND EXPERIMENT : Statistical physics, complex systems, stochastic modelling, dynamical systems, bifurcations and chaos, networks of coupled oscillators

Division of Dynamics
Lodz University of Technology
PL – 90-924 Lodz
✆ : +48426312231
📧 : tomaszka@p.lodz.pl
Webpage : Tomasz Kapitaniak

Prof. Sabine H.L. Klapp

THEORY: Theory of soft condensed matter, non-equilibrium dynamics, phase transitions, colloidal suspensions, driven systems, active matter, liquid crystals, transport, self-assembly, feedback control, self-organization, computer simulations, classical density functional theory, stochastic modelling, coarse-graining

Institute of Theoretical Physics
Technische Universität Berlin
Hardenbergstrasse 36
D – 10623 Berlin
✆ : + 49 30 31423763
📧 : klapp@physik.tu-berlin.de
Webpage : Sabine H.L. Klapp

Prof. Galina L. Klimchitskaya

THEORY: Casimir physics, constraints on non-Newtonian gravity, constraints on axionlike particles, electrical and optical properties of graphene

Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo
Russian Academy of Sciences
Pulkovskoye chaussee 65
RU – Saint Petersburg 196140
✆ : +78123637207
📧 : g.klimchitskaya@gmail.com
Webpage : Galina L. Klimchitskaya

Prof. Yun Lai

THEORY + EXPERIMENT: Metamaterials, metasurfaces, photonic crystals, nanophotonics, plasmonics, acoustic and elastic waves

School of Physics
Nanjing University
CHN – Nanjing, 210093
✆ : +86 18 662210480
📧 : laiyun@nju.edu.cn
Webpage : Yun Lai

Prof. Xi Lin

EXPERIMENT: Quantum Hall effect, quantum fluids and solids, two-dimensional electron system, cryogenics

International Center for Quantum Materials
Peking University
Physics Building W531
CHN – Beijing 100871
✆ : + 86 10 62766331
📧 : xilin@pku.edu.cn

Dr. María Rosa López Gonzalo

THEORY: Quantum Transport in correlated systems, topological materials: Majorana physics and topological superconductors, quantum thermodynamics: quantum engines and refrigerators, Maxwell demon, time-dependent transport in nanosystems spintronic at the nanoscale

Departement de Fisica
Universitat de les Illes Balears
Palma de Mallorca
E – 07122 Palma de Mallorca
✆ : +34971173370
📧 : rosa.lopez-gonzalo@uib.es
Webpage : María Rosa López Gonzalo

Prof. Marco G. Mazza

THEORY: Living matter physics, active matter, nonequilibrium statistical physics, soft matter, computer simulations, liquid crystals, granular matter

Department of Mathematical Sciences
Loughborough University
Epinal Way
UK – Loughborough LE11 3TU
✆ : +49 5515176233
📧 : m.g.mazza@lboro.ac.uk
Webpage : Marco G. Mazza

Prof. Dmitri Melikhov

THEORY: Theoretical high-energy physics, quantum chromodynamics, hadron physics, nonstandard multi-quark states, heavy quark effective theory, leptonic, semileptonic and radiative hadron decays

Faculty of Physics
University of Vienna
Boltzmanngasse 5
A – 1090 Vienna
✆ : +43 1 4277515 31
📧 : dmitri_melikhov@gmx.de
Webpage : Dmitri Melikhov

Prof. Anna Minguzzi

THEORY: Quantum gases of ultracold atoms and excitons-polaritons, Low-dimensional systems

Laboratoire de Physique et Modélisation des Milieux Condensés
Université Grenoble-Alpes and CNRS
F – 38042 Grenoble
✆ : +33 456387133
📧 : anna.minguzzi@grenoble.cnrs.fr
Webpage : Anna Minguzzi

Prof. Eduardo Miranda

THEORY: Strongly correlated electron systems, heavy fermion systems, Mott insulators, disordered systems, metal-insulator transitions, Anderson localization, interplay of disorder and interactions in electronic systems, electronic transport

Gleb Wataghin Institute of Physics
The University of Campinas
Rua Sergio Buarque de Holanda, 777
BR – Campinas, SP 13083-859
A – 1090 Vienna
✆ : +55 19 3521 5486
📧 : emiranda.epl@gmail.com
Webpage : Eduardo Miranda

Dr. Izaak Neri

THEORY: Statistical physics, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, disordered systems, biological physics

Department of Mathematics
King’s College London
Strand Campus, Strand
UK – London WC2R 2LS
✆ : +44 020 7848 0997
📧 : izaak.neri@kcl.ac.uk
Webpage : Izaak Neri

Prof. Hui Khoon Ng

THEORY: Quantum error correction, quantum fault tolerance, quantum computation, quantum information processing, quantum theory

Yale-NUS College
16 College Ave West
SIN – Singapore 138527
✆ : + 65 6601-3378
📧 : huikhoon.ng@yale-nus.edu.sg
Webpage : Hui Khoon Ng

Prof. Jae Dong Noh

THEORY: Statistical physics, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, phase transitions, stochastic thermodynamics, quantum chaos, quantum thermalization, eigenstate thermalization hypothesis

Department of Physics
University of Seoul
163, Seoulsiripdae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu
ROK – Seoul 02504
✆ : +82-2-6490-2653
📧 : jdnoh@uos.ac.kr

Prof. Daniele Oriti

THEORY: Quantum gravity, foundations of physics, theoretical cosmology

Departamento de Física Teórica
Facultad de Ciencias Físicas
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Plaza de las Ciencias 1
E – 28040 Madrid
✆ : +34 91394 5198
📧 : doriti@ucm.es

Prof. Mathis Plapp

THEORY: Pattern formation and self-organization, microstructures in materials, computational materials science: growth and aggregation: phase transitions, thermodynamics and irreversible processes, phase-field models, moving-boundary problems

Laboratoire PMC
CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique
F – 91128 Palaiseau
✆ : +33 1 69.33.47.77
📧 : Mathis.Plapp@polytechnique.fr
Webpage : Mathis Plapp

Prof. Dragana Popović

EXPERIMENT: Electronic transport in condensed matter, electronic properties of low-dimensional systems, superconductivity

Natl High Magnetic Field Lab
Florida State University
1800 E. Paul Dirac Drive
USA – Tallahassee, FL 32310
✆ : +1 850 644-3913
📧 : dragana@magnet.fsu.edu
Webpage : Dragana Popović

Prof. Maria Raposo

EXPERIMENT: Electric and optical properties of organic ultra-thin films, polymers and biomolecules, interfaces, nanotechnology, colloids, molecular architectures for electronics, photonics magnetism and sensors, biomimetic cells and membranes, radiation effect in biological systems

Physics Department
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Campus FCT-NOVA
P – 2829-516 Caparica
📧 : mfr@fct.unl.pt
Webpage : Maria Raposo

Prof. Francisco A. Rodrigues

THEORY: Complex networks, complexity, social systems, machine learning, biological complexity, social physics, epidemic models, synchronization, graphs

Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science
Universidade de Sao Paulo
BR – Sao Carlos SP
✆ : + 55 1 6992619827
📧 : franciscoifsc@gmail.com
Webpage : Francisco A. Rodrigues

Prof. Édgar Roldán

THEORY AND EXPERIMENT: Stochastic thermodynamics, stochastic processes, optical tweezers, nonequilibrium phenomena in biology

Quantitative Life Sciences section
ICTP – Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Strada Costiera, 11
I – 34151 – Trieste
✆ : +39 040 2240136
📧 : edgar@ictp.it
Webpage : Édgar Roldán

Prof. Andreas Ruschhaupt

THEORY: Quantum theory, quantum control, shortcuts to adiabaticity, quantum optics, time in quantum mechanics, tunneling times, foundations of quantum mechanics

Department of Physics
University College Cork
College Road
IRL – Cork T12 K8AF
✆ : +353 (0)21 490 2373
📧 : aruschhaupt@ucc.ie
Webpage : Andreas Ruschhaupt

Dr. Elena Santopinto

THEORY: Theoretical hadron physics, heavy meson physics, heavy baryon physics, light baryons physics, electromagnetic form factors, electromagnetic transition form factors, hadron spectroscopy, exotic hadron spectroscopy, theoretical nuclear physics: neutrinoless double beta decay, beta decay, charge exchange, interacting boson model, algebraic models

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare – Sezione di Genova
Via Dodecaneso, 33
I – 16146 Genova
✆ : +39 010 353 6219
📧 : elena.santopinto@ge.infn.it
Webpage : Elena Santopinto

Prof. Tanja Schilling

THEORY: Statistical physics, theory of soft matter, Monte Carlo simulation, projection operator formalisms

Physikalisches Institut
Universität Freiburg
Hermann-Herder-Str. 3
D – 79104 Freiburg im Breisgau
✆ : +49 0761-203-7696
📧 : tanja.schilling@physik.uni-freiburg.de
Webpage : Tanja Schilling

Prof. Peter Schlagheck

THEORY: Ultracold quantum gases, quantum chaos, semiclassical theory of tunneling, strong and weak localisation

Département de physique
Université de Liège
Allée du six Août 10
B – 4000 Liège
✆ : + 32 4 3669043
📧 : Peter.Schlagheck@uliege.be
Webpage : Peter Schlagheck

Prof. Zhaoyan Sun

THEORY AND EXPERIMENT : Polymers, colloids, glass transition, self-assembling, crystallization, computer simulation

Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Renmin Street 5625
CHN – Changchun 130022
✆ : +86 43185 26 2896
📧 : zysun@ciac.ac.cn
Webpage : Zhaoyan Sun

Prof. Gonzalo Usaj

THEORY: Condensed matter theory, quantum transport, electronic structure and electrical properties of surfaces, interfaces, thin films, and low-dimensional systems, time dependent transport, Floquet physics, topological materials, polaritons

Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro
Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica
RA – 8400 Bariloche, Río Negro
📧 : gonzalo.usaj@ib.edu.ar

Prof. Bassano Vacchini

THEORY: Open quantum systems, non-Markovian quantum dynamics, decoherence, quantum dissipation, quantum information

Physics Department
Università degli Studi di Milano
Via Celoria 16
I – 20133 Milano
✆ : +39 02 50317239
📧 : bassano.vacchini@mi.infn.it
Webpage : Bassano Vacchini

Dr. Mahendra K. Verma

THEORY: Turbulence, magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, convection, Rayleigh-Bénard convection, dynamo theory

Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology Faculty
Building 472
IND – Kanpur 208016 (UP)
✆ : + 91 512 259 7396
📧 : mahendra.k.verma@gmail.com
Webpage : Mahendra K. Verma

Prof. Patrizia Vignolo

THEORY: Ultracold gases, low dimensional systems, effects of disorder

Institut de Physique de Nice
Université Côte d’Azur
1361, route des Lucioles – Sophia Antipolis
F – 06560 Valbonne
✆ : + 33 4 92 96 73 16
📧 : Patrizia.Vignolo@univ-cotedazur.fr
Webpage : Patrizia Vignolo

Prof. Tie-Jun Wang

THEORY AND EXPERIMENT: Quantum information, quantum networks, quantum computing, quantum optics

State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications and School of Science
Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications
CHN – Beijing 100876
📧 : wangtiejun@bupt.edu.cn

Prof. Frank K. Wilhelm-Mauch

THEORY: Quantum computing : adiabatic quantum computing, quantum benchmarking, quantum gates ; mesoscopic physics : Coulomb blockade, spin blockade, quantum interference effects ; quantum control ; quantum protocols : quantum tomography, quantum walks ; quantum information processing : quantum information with hybrid systems, quantum information with solid state qubits, quantum memories, quantum sensing ; superconductivity : Andreev reflection, Josephson effect, proximity effect ; quantum theory : open quantum systems / decoherence, quantum control, quantum measurements, quantum parameter estimation, quantum tomography

Institute for quantum computing analytics (PGI-12)
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Wilhelm-Johnen Straße
D – 52425 Jülich
✆ : + 49 2461 616106
📧 : f.wilhelm-mauch@fz-juelich.de
Webpage : Frank K. Wilhelm-Mauch

Prof. Edward Wilson-Ewing

THEORY: Gravitational physics, quantum gravity, theoretical cosmology, black holes, loop quantum gravity, group field theory

Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of New Brunswick
CAN – Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3
✆ : + 1 506 458 7513
📧 : edward.wilson-ewing@unb.ca
Webpage : Edward Wilson-Ewing

Prof. Chengyin Wu

EXPERIMENT: Photoionization and excitation, strong-field physics, ultrafast spectroscopy, high-order harmonic generation

School of Physics
Peking University
No. 209 Chengfu Road, Haidian District
CHN – Beijing 100871
✆ : + 86 10 62754986
📧 : cywu@pku.edu.cn
Webpage : Chengyin Wu

Prof. Yi Zhang

THEORY: Strongly correlated electron systems, unconventional superconductivity, superconducting diode effect, disordered systems

Shanghai University
No. 99 Shangda Road, Baoshan District
CHN – Shanghai 200444
✆ : + +86 13732521275
📧 : zhangyi821@shu.edu.cn