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Nanotechnology: 2016 Reviewer Awards

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Adriano Cola, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy

‘Nanotechnology’ is one of Dr Adriano Cola’s keywords, which is why he finds the subject matter included in Nanotechnology particularly relevant. The journal’s papers span different disciplines, with modelling and basic mechanisms as the core theme, and Dr Cola appreciates the wide-ranging perspectives that pool together towards further understanding in the field.

Dr Cola is specifically interested in carrier transport and the advanced techniques that enable investigators to probe this subject further. Hence, he cites “A review of the electrical properties of semiconductor nanowires: insights gained from terahertz conductivity spectroscopy as an enjoyable read from another IOP Publishing journal he also reviews for.

Viewing peer review as essential groundwork for research, Dr Cola looks for a message in the manuscripts he referees. He then searches for novelty, impact and vision, keeping the journal’s scope and quality standards in mind. The best papers, he says, tell a story and recount something about the authors.

Dr Cola advises first-time reviewers to approach papers with an open mind. An article’s limitations may in fact mirror the reviewer’s own research limitations, so it is important not to judge too hastily and to take your time.

Delighted with the Reviewer of the Year award, Dr Cola believes referees should be rewarded, and scored against each other according to the number of citations the reviewed paper receives in order to further motivate them. With his wife working as an associate editor for a scientific journal, it is all too clear to Dr Cola that the global reviewer database needs to be improved.

Outstanding Reviewers:

  • Dr Rebecca Agapov, Oak Ridge National Lab, United States
  • Dr Brahim Aissa, MPB Technologies Inc., Canada
  • Dr Cristiano Albonetti, CNR, Italy
  • Mr Nicklas Anttu, Lund University, Sweden
  • Professor Katsuhiko Ariga, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
  • Dr Nima Arjmandi, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
  • Dr Rob Armitage, Philips Lumileds Lighting Company, United States
  • Professor Dr Andres Arnau, UPV/EHU, Spain
  • Dr Manuel Arruebo, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
  • Dr Mohamed Asbahi, Institute of Materials and Research for Engineering, A*STAR, Singapore
  • Dr Ferydon Babaei, Qom University, Iran
  • Professor Julien Bachmann, Friedrich Alexander Universitat Erlangen, Germany
  • Dr Grégory Barbillon, Universite Paris-Sud, France
  • Professor Salvador Barraza-Lopez, University of Arkansas, United States
  • Professor Mehmet Baykara, Bilkent University, Turkey
  • Dr Mikhael Bechelany, Eidgenossische Materialprufungs und Forschungsanstalt, Switzerland
  • Dr Paolo Bertoncello, Swansea University, UK
  • Dr Gunther Brunklaus, Westfalische Wilhelms Universitat Munster, Germany
  • Professor Enrique Calleja, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
  • Professor Eva Campo, Bangor University, UK
  • Mr Jesus Carrete, CEA-Grenoble, France
  • Dr Federico Cesano, Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy
  • Mrs Stefanos Chaitoglou, University of Barcelona, Spain
  • Dr Sheng Hsiung Chang, National Central University, Taiwan
  • Ms Fanglin Che, Washington State University, United States
  • Professor Lung-Chien Chen, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
  • Dr Hao Chen, Princeton University, United States
  • Dr Hao Chen, Princeton University, United States
  • Mr Ta Chou, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan
  • Professor Daxiang Cui, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  • Dr Bruno Daudin, CEA Grenoble, France
  • Dr Luca De Stefano, CNR – Istituto per la Microelettronica I Microsistemi, Italy
  • Dr Ruopeng Deng, Lam Research, United States
  • Professor Antonio Di Bartolomeo, Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
  • Professor Bin Ding, Donghua University, China
  • Dr Bin Ding, DongHua University, China
  • Dr Hong Ding, Florida International University, United States
  • Dr Mircea Dragoman, National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnology, Romania
  • Mr Yuchen Du, Purdue University, United States
  • Dr Juan Escrig, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile
  • Professor Dr Guojia Fang, Wuhan University, China
  • Dr Haiyu Fang, UC Santa Barbara, United States
  • Professor Dr Mounir Gaidi, Research and technology center of energy, Tunisia
  • Dr Patrice Gonon, Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble I, France
  • Mr Johannes Gooth, University of Hamburg, Germany
  • Dr Bharath Govindan, Bharathiar University, India
  • Professor Tom Gregorkiewicz, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Dr Peijun Guo, Argonne National Laboratory, United States
  • Professor Dr Zheng Han, Institute of Metal Research Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • Professor Chuanglong He, Donghua University, China
  • Dr Xiaoyong He, Shanghai Normal University, China
  • Dr Weidong He, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States
  • Dr Daniel Hiller, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany
  • Professor Dr Xianluo Hu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
  • Professor Xuedong Hu, University at Buffalo – SUNY, United States
  • Dr Youfan Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
  • Professor Zongliang Huo, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Beijing, China
  • Dr Yu Ivanov, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
  • Dr Alar Janes, University of Tartu, Estonia
  • Professor Guangbin Ji, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
  • Mr Peipei Jia, The University of Adelaide, Australia
  • Ms Beibei Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
  • Professor William Jo, Ewha Woman’s University, Republic of Korea
  • Professor Sanghyun Ju, Kyonggi University, Republic of Korea
  • Professor Tohru Kawamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  • Professor Hak Kim, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
  • Professor Taek-Soo Kim, KAIST, Republic of Korea
  • Professor Marina Koroleva, Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Russia
  • Mr Sowri Babu Kotikala, National Institute of Technology Warangal, India
  • Dr Lia Kouchachvili, Canmet Energy Technology Centre, Canada
  • Professor Yafei Kuang, Hunan University, China
  • Dr Pushpendra Kumar, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
  • Dr Polina Kuzhir, Belarusian State University, Belarus
  • Dr Gi Duk Kwon, Sungkyunkwan University – Suwon Campus, Republic of Korea
  • Dr Wenzhang Li, Cent S Univ, China
  • Professor Jingbo Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Beijing, China
  • Dr Tao Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Electrical Engineering, China
  • Dr Xinming Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
  • Dr Fengji Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Dr Zhefei Li, Ohio University, United States
  • Dr Shuyou Li, FOM Networks, Inc., United States
  • Dr Ruowen Liang, Fuzhou University, China
  • Dr Feng Liang, National Key Laboratory for Clean Application of Complex Non-ferrous Metal Resources, China
  • Professor Yow-Jon Lin, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan
  • Professor Jingquan Liu, Qingdao University, China
  • Professor Xuguang Liu, Taiyuan University of Technology, China
  • Dr Wei Liu, National University of Defense Technology, China
  • Professor Yan Jun Liu, South University of Science and Technology, China
  • Professor Dr Zheng-qi Liu, Jiangxi Normal University, China
  • Professor Zhuang Liu, Soochow University, Taiwan
  • Mr Siyang Liu, University of Texas at Austin, United States
  • Professor Xingming Long, Chongqing Normal University, China
  • Dr Ganesh Lonkar, School of Physical Science, NMU, Jalgaon, India
  • Dr Matteo Lorenzoni, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
  • Professor Nan Lu, Jilin University, China
  • Professor Ping Lu, Long Island University, United States
  • Professor Linbao Luo, Hefei University of Technology, China
  • Dr Xi Luo, Lehigh University, United States
  • Dr Lin Ma, Lingnan Normal University, China
  • Dr Siddheswar Maikap, Chang Gung University, Taiwan
  • Dr Venkata Manthina, University of Connecticut, United States
  • Mrs Oren Meiron, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
  • Dr Fanli Meng, Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • Professor Guowen Meng, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Solid State Physics, China
  • Dr Xianwei Meng, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • Dr Valentina Mussi, CNR, Italy
  • Dr Mohammad Najmzadeh, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Professor Douglas Natelson, Rice University, United States
  • Dr Hynek Nemec, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
  • Dr Niklas Nilius, Universityof Oldenburg, Germany
  • Professor Alexander Obraztsov, M V Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
  • Dr Suparna Pal, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, India
  • Mr Jinbo Pang, IFW Dresden, Germany
  • Dr Patrick Parkinson, The University of Manchester, UK
  • Miss Mariana Proenca, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Dr Jian Qian, University of Kansas, United States
  • Professor Nathaniel Quitoriano, McGill University, Canada
  • Professor Dr Arturo Ramirez-Porras, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
  • Professor Dan Rittschof, Duke University, United States
  • Professor Chandra Sekhar Rout, Indian Institute of Technology – Bhubaneswar, India
  • Dr Anushree Roy, Indian Institute of Technology, India
  • Professor Dr Seung Yoon Ryu, Korea University, Republic of Korea
  • Dr Aditya Sadhanala, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Dr Shanlin Shan, The University of Alabama, United States
  • Professor Mingwang Shao, Soochow University, China
  • Dr Piyush Solanki, Saurashtra University, India
  • Professor Michael Strano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
  • Professor Xuping Sun, China West Normal University, China
  • Dr Zhimim Tao, Private Address – United States, United States
  • Dr Konstantinos Termentzidis, University of Lorraine, France
  • Dr Randall Toy, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
  • Dr Jiang- Tu, Zhejiang University, China
  • Professor Herbert Urbassek, Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
  • Professor Dr Laudemir Varanda, Chemistry Institute of Sao Carlos, Brazil
  • Dr Zhiguang Wang, Virginia Tech, United States
  • Professor Hao Wang, Hubei University, China
  • Dr Xin Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
  • Professor Xiaodong Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Semiconductors, China
  • Dr Dong Wang, Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Germany
  • Professor Xuebin Wang, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
  • Dr Fan Wang, Chonnam National University, Republic of Korea
  • Dr Chih-Chieh Wang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
  • Dr Geoffrey Wang, University of Georgia, United States
  • Professor Han Wang, University of Southern California, United States
  • Dr Luda Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
  • Dr Mengye Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
  • Dr Xin Wang, Northwestern University, United States
  • Dr Wei-Ning Wang, Washington University in St Louis, United States
  • Professor Xiaomu Wang, Yale Universiy, United States
  • Professor Frank Watt, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Dr Liangming Wei, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  • Dr Qingshan Wei, University of California – Los Angeles, United States
  • Dr Xiaoming Wen, University of New South Wales, Australia
  • Dr Zhong-Shuai Wu, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chile
  • Dr Hung-Chun Wu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
  • Professor Dr Wenzhuo Wu, Purdue University, United States
  • Dr Qiangfei Xia, University of Massachusetts, United States
  • Dr Yu Xia, Polyera Corporation, United States
  • Dr Guohua Xie, Wuhan University, China
  • Dr Chao Xie, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
  • Dr Xiangfan Xu, Tongji University, China
  • Professor Weibing Xu, University of Science and Technology of China, China
  • Mr Fan Xu, University of Delaware, United States
  • Professor Xinyu Xue, Northeastern University, China
  • Professor G Yang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
  • Dr Xiang Yang, University of Pennsylvania, United States
  • Professor Eui-Hyeok Yang, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States
  • Dr Binxing Yu, Rutgers University, United States
  • Dr Yifei Yu, North Carolina State University, United States
  • Dr Olena Yurchenko, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg Mathematisches Institut, Germany
  • Professor Anatoly Zayats, King’s College London – University of London, UK
  • Professor Qingfeng Zhan, Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • Dr Zhenglong Zhang, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany
  • Dr Zhonghai Zhang, Toyama University, Japan
  • Ms Miao Zhang, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Dr Fan Zhang, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
  • Professor Yonggang Zheng, Dalian University of Technology, China
  • Dr Bo Zhou, City University of Hong Kong and South China University of Technology, Hong Kong
  • Dr Jian Zhu, Northwestern University, United States
  • Professor Dechun Zou, Peking University, China
  • Mr Xingquan Zou, University of Michigan, United States