New Journal of Physics: 2016 Reviewer Awards

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Anthony Leverrier, INRIA Rocquencourture des Telecommunications, France

Dr Anthony Leverrier enjoys the feeling that he is contributing to a collective scientific adventure by ensuring that a paper’s published results are correct and can be reproduced. He sees peer review as an integral part of the researcher’s job. With the increase in new journals and published articles, however, he is also aware that it is impossible to accept all solicitations for reviews.

For this reason, Dr Leverrier endeavours to referee for journals that are open-access and publish ‘good science’, such as New Journal of Physics (NJP). It also makes sense to him to focus solely on papers that interest him, to not only manage the influx of solicitations, but also to lend his expertise to the subject matter.

It seems to Dr Leverrier that authors tend to oversell results, which skews the peer review process; whereas, in NJP, he finds authors are usually much more honest about their results and the refereeing process can focus on its primary role: checking the correctness of the results.

For Dr Leverrier, a good review offers constructive criticism, clearly pointing how the manuscript might be improved, rather than focusing on aspects the reviewer would have treated differently. He urges first-time reviewers to imagine being on the receiving end of the report to avoid being too negative or aggressive in their comments.

Dr Leverrier is pleased to see a list of outstanding referees being published for NJP. He is happy and surprised to have been singled out for the Reviewer of the Year award, modestly suggesting he had not done a much better job than any of his colleagues.

Outstanding Reviewers:

Professor Daniel Alonso, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
Dr Andre Barato, Universitat Stuttgart, Germany
Dr Stephen Barnett, University of Glasgow, UK
Dr Peter Baum, LMU München, Germany
Mr Ämin Baumeler, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland
Dr Alejandro Bermudez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Dr Sergio Boixo, Google, UK
Dr Cyril Branciard, Institut Néel, France
Dr Ceri Brenner, Science & Technology Facilities Council, UK
Dr Daniel Browne, University College London, UK
Dr Daniel Buergler, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Professor Thomas Busch, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan
Dr Enrico Camporeale, entrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands
Dr Eric Cavalcanti, University of Sydney, Australia
Dr Gabriele De Chiara, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Dr Arend Dijkstra, Kyoto University, Japan
Dr Tobias Donner, Eidgenossiche Technische Hochschule – Zurich, Switzerland
Dr Clive Emary, Newcastle University, UK
Dr Bill Fefferman, University of Maryland at College Park, United States
Dr Simone Felicetti, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain
Dr Shiping Feng, Beijing Normal University, China
Dr Giovanni Finocchio, University of Messina, Italy
Dr Florian Froewis, University Geneva, Switzerland
Mrs Ken Funo, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr S Gardiner, Durham University, UK
Dr Enno Giese, University of Ottawa, Canada
Dr Zhe-Xuan Gong, JQI, United States
Dr Frederic Grosshans, CNRS, France
Professor Dr David Guery-Odelin, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Dr Mohammad Hafezi, The Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), United States
Dr Matt Harrington, University of Maryland at College Park, United States
Professor N Harshman, The American University, United States
Dr Michael Hartmann, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Dr Sebastian Hofferberth, 5. Phys. Institut, Germany
Dr Marcus Huber, Universitaet Wien, Austria
Dr Toshikaze Kariyado, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Dr Yaroslav Kartashov, Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques (ICFO), Spain
Dr Alexander Kemper, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States
Dr Viv Kendon, Durham University, UK
Professor Ulrich Kleinekathoefer, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
Dr Vadym Kliuchnikov, Microsoft Research, United States
Dr A Femius Koenderink, FOM Institute AMOLF, Netherlands
Professor Juergen Koenig, Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Professor Andrey Kolovsky, Kirensky Institute of Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Professor Kazuhiko Kuroki, Osaka University, Japan
Dr Neill Lambert, RIKEN, UK
Dr J LeBlanc, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany
Professor Anthony Leggett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Dr Dong Li, East China Normal University, China
Professor Zhi-Min Liao, Peking University, China
Professor Zhengyou Liu, Wuhan University, China
Dr Mary Lyon, Joint Quantum Institute, United States
Dr Andrea Macchi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Italy
Professor Boris Malomed, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr Paul Manneville, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Dr Pietro Massignan, Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques (ICFO), Spain
Dr Neil Mathur, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr Steven May, Drexel University, United States
Dr Roy McAdams, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK
Dr Dara McCutcheon, University of Bristol, UK
Dr Jun Mei, South China University of Technology, China
Dr A S Mel’nikov, Russian Acad Sci, Russia
Dr Florian Mintert, Imperial College London, UK
Dr Carsten Mueller, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf, Germany
Dr William Munro, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan
Mr Varun Narasimhachar, University of Calgary, Canada
Dr Thierry Passot, Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur, France
Professor Warren Pickett, University of California – Davis, United States
Professor Rudolf Podgornik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Germany
Dr Igor Pogorelsky, BNL, United States
Dr Jean-Philippe Poizat, Institut NEEL, France
Professor Dr Dario Poletti, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Dr Han Pu, Rice University, United States
Dr Peter Rabl, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria
Dr Christian Ratsch, University of California – Los Angeles, United States
Professor Michael Raymer, University of Oregon, United States
Dr Caterina Riconda, LULI/UPMC, France
Dr Achim Rosch, Universitat zu Koeln, Germany
Dr Carlos Sabin, University of Nottingham, UK
Dr Gianluca Sarri, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Dr Emanuel Schneck, Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
Professor Armin Scrinzi, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Professor Lu Sham, University of California – San Diego, United States
Mr Chao Shen, Yale University, United States
Professor Takasada Shibauchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr Eric Shirley, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
Dr John Simpson-Porco, University of Waterloo, Canada
Dr Douglas Singleton, California State University, United States
Mr Ilya Starshinov, Exeter University, UK
Dr Martin Stier, Universtät Hamburg, Germany
Professor Attila Szolnoki, Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Centre for Energy Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Dr Malte Tichy, Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr Marco Tomamichel, The University of Sydney, Australia
Dr David Vitali, Universita di Camerino, Italy
Dr Zhenyu Wang, Universitat Ulm, Germany
Dr Thomas Wellens, Physikalisches Institut, Germany
Dr Haidan Wen, Argonne National Laboratory, United States
Dr Frank Wilhelm, Universitat des Saarlandes, Germany
Professor Sandro Wimberger, Heidelberg University, Germany
Dr Christian Wimmer, Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Germany
Professor Howard Wiseman, Griffith University, Australia
Dr Andre Xuereb, University of Malta, Malta
Professor Wei Yi, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Dr Francesco Zerbetto, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
Dr Peng Zhang, Michigan State University, United States
Dr Fan Zhang, University of Texas, Dallas, United States