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Reviewer of the Year: Professor Atsushi Iwasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan

“Peer reviews are very important for fair evaluation and making good progress in science, but little attention has been given to reviewer’s works while there are actually a lot of efforts behind them.  I would like to let people all over the world know the importance of peer reviews.”

Outstanding Reviewers

Professor Edward Armour, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Dr Wilhelm Becker, Max-Born-Institut fuer Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Germany
Professor Emmanouil Benis, The University of Ioannina, Greece
Dr Jader Cabral, Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Brazil
Dr Alberto Cappellaro, Universita degli studi di Padova Scuola di Scienze, Italy
Dr Claude Dal Cappello, Universite de Lorraine, France
Professor Aurelien Dantan, Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr Shimpei Endo, Tohoku University, Japan
Professor Devki Gupta, University of Delhi, India
Dr Pierre-Michel Hillenbrand, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Germany
Professor Marko Horbatsch, York University, Canada
Assistant research fellow Hsiang-Hua Jen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Dr Nikolai Kabachnik, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation
Dr Jiguang Li, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, China
Dr Jun Liu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Dr Andal Narayanan, Raman Research Institute, India
Dr Sanjukta Roy, Raman Research Institute, India
Professor Xiaofeng Shi, Xidian University, China
Dr Wojciech Skomorowski, University of Southern California, United States
Dr Daniel Slaughter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States
Dr Michał Tomza, University of Warsaw, Poland
Dr Jia Wang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Dr Wenlong Wang, Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan, Sweden
Dr Ulrich Warring, University of Freiburg, Germany
Dr Jianming Wen, Kennesaw State University, United States
Dr Jin Yang, The University of Oklahoma, United States
Dr Kazuhiro Yokota, Osaka University, Japan
Dr Chang-shui Yu, Dalian University of Technology, China

Reviewer of the Year: Professor Eytan Katzav, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Paulo Assis, Universidade Federal de Catalao, Brazil
Professor Alberto Barchielli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Dr Quentin Berger, LPMA, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Dr Giulia Bertagnolli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Dr Eric Bertin, CNRS and Université Grenoble Alpes, France
Dr Thomas Bothner, University College London, United Kingdom
Dr Berislav Buca, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Dr Manuel Calixto, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Mr Daniel Cariello, Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Brazil
Dr Shuming Cheng, Baidu Inc, China
Dr Sara Cruz y Cruz, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico
Dr Sebastian Deffner, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States
Dr Sanjib Dey, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, India
Professor Damien Foster, Coventry University, United Kingdom
Dr Igor Freire, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil
Dr Sudip Garai, Diamond Harbour Women’s University, India
Dr Giuseppe Genovese, University of Basel, Switzerland
Dr Aljaz Godec, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
Professor Alexander Grosberg, New York University, United States
Dr Oleg Kirillov, Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Dr Jukka Kiukas, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
Professor Arul Lakshminarayan, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Dr Danilo Latini, Roma Tre University, Italy
Dr Annie Lemarchand, Sorbonne Université / CNRS, France
Dr Karl Liechty, DePaul University, United States
Dr Matthias Lienert, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
Associate Professor Jon Links, The University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Hao Di Liu, Northeast Normal University, China
Professor Kenneth Millett, University of California – Santa Barbara, United States
Dr Miquel Montero, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Dr Andre Mota, Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Brazil
Professor Matteo G. A. Paris, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy
Professor Dmitry Pelinovsky, McMaster University, Canada
Emeritus Professor Jacques H H Perk, Oklahoma State University, United States
Professor Antonio Politi, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Dr Somrita Ray, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr Marta Reboiro, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Professor Oscar Rosas-Ortiz, CINVESTAV – IPN, Mexico
Dr Artem Ryabov, Charles University, Czech Republic
Professor Udo Seifert, Universitat Stuttgart, Germany
Dr Guilhem Semerjian, Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris, France
Dr Shashi Srivastava, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, India
Professor Hugo Touchette, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Dr Martin Weigel, Coventry University, United Kingdom
Dr Zhi Yin, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Professor Zensho Yoshida, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr Dmitry Zezyulin, ITMO University, Russia
Dr Lin Zhang, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Yi Weng, NeoPhotonics Corporation, United States

Dr Yi Weng is a senior optical-systems engineer at Neophotonics Corporation in San Jose, California. He has been recognized as Outstanding Reviewer for years, and selected as the 2019 Reviewer of the Year for Journal of Optics, in recognition of the high-quality and timeliness of his reviews for the community.

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Aleksandr Bekshaev, Odessa I I Mechnikov National University, Ukraine
Dr Yang Chen, Max-Planck-Institut fur die Physik des Lichts, Germany
Professor Weiqiang Ding, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Dr Xianwei Huang, Hunan University, China
Dr Kun Huang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Professor Victor Kotlyar, Russian Academy of Sciences – Institute of Image Processing Systems, Russian Federation
Professor Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Pennsylvania State University, United States
Professor Xinzhong Li, Henan University of Science and Technology, China
Professor Dr Chengpu Liu, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China
Dr Hongchao Liu, University of Macau, China
Professor Boris Malomed, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr Adam Mock, Central Michigan University College of Science and Technology, United States
Dr Asloob Mudassar, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Pakistan
Dr Denis Novitsky, Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Belarus
Professor Emeritus Olivier Parriaux, Laboratoire Hubert Curien UMR CNRS 5516, University of Lyon at Saint-Etienne, France
Dr Olivier Pottiez, Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, A.C., Mexico
Dr William Robertson, Middle Tennessee State University, United States
Dr Vladimir Serdyuk, Belarusian State University, Belarus
Dr Manuel Servin Guirado, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica A. C., Mexico
Dr Yijie Shen, Tsinghua University, China
Dr Tatsuki Tahara, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan
Dr Christos Tserkezis, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Dr Benito Vázquez Dorrío, Universidad de Vigo, Spain
Dr Brian Vohnsen, University College Dublin, Ireland
Dr Shuyuan Xiao, Nanchang University, China
Dr Guanghui Yuan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Professor Han Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr Meiling Zhou, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Mr Chuanzhou Zhu, Rice University, United States

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Simon Danner, Drexel University, United States

Simon Danner is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. He received his PhD from the Vienna University of Technology in 2013. His research utilizes computational modeling to study neural control of locomotion and rehabilitation strategies after neurological disorders.

Outstanding Reviewers

Mr Carlos Amaral, IBILI, Institute for Biomedical Imaging in Life Sciences, University of Coimbra and Brain Imaging Network of Portugal, Portugal
Dr Jeffrey Arle, Harvard Medical School, United States
Dr Marco Capogrosso, Universite de Fribourg, Switzerland
Dr Eugene Civillico, U.S. FDA, United States
Dr Patrick Crago, Case Western Reserve University, United States
Professor Nick Donaldson, University College London, United Kingdom
Dr Donald Elbert, University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, United States
Dr Andrey Eliseyev, Columbia University, United States
Dr Zoltan Fekete, Faculty of Information Technology & Bionics, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary
Dr Luis Gomez, Duke University, United States
Professor Dr Jose Gomez-Tames, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr Dania Gutiérrez, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico
Dr Yongtian He, University of Houston, United States
Professor Gan Huang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Dr Muhammad Kaleem, University of Management and Technology, Pakistan
Dr Suguru Kanoga, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Dr Hamid Reza Marateb, University of Isafahan, Islamic Republic of Iran
Professor Daniele Marinazzo, University of Gent, Belgium
Mrs Suzan Meijs, Aalborg University, Denmark
Dr Silvia Muceli, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Dr Masaki Nakanishi, University of California San Diego, United States
Dr Phoebe Neo, University of Otago, New Zealand
Dr Daniel O’Shea, Stanford University, United States
Dr Thomas Richner, University of Washington, United States
Dr Patrick Ruther, University of Freiburg, Germany
Dr Ancor Sanz-Garcia, Instituto de Investigaciones Sanitaria Hospital de la Princesa, Spain
Dr Arsam Shiraz, University College London, United Kingdom
Assistant Professor Elliot Smith, University of Utah, United States
Dr Zhongpeng Wang, Tianjin University, China
Dr Vahab Youssofzadeh, Medical College of Wisconsin, United States
Dr Simeng Zhang, Abbott Laboratories, United States
Dr Tao Zhang, Xihua University, China
Dr Wei-Long Zheng, Massachusetts General Hospital, United States

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Christabel Tan, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Outstanding Reviewers

Mr Dimitris Barmpakos, University of West Attica, Greece
Dr Fang Chen, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem And Information Technology, China
Dr Huanyu Cheng, Pennsylvania State University, United States
Professor Yi Chiu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Dr Marten Darmawan, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya, Indonesia
Dr Soumen Das, School of Medical Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Dr Sukomal Dey, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, Kerala, India
Dr Ian Foulds, University of British Colombia, Canada
Dr Attila Geczy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Dr Maxime Harnois, IETR UMR 6164, University of Rennes 1, France
Dr Ben Mills, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Dr Andrija Milojevic, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Dr Nam Nguyen, Griffith University, Australia
Dr Daniel Ramos, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
Dr Woo Young Sim, NanoEnTek Inc, Korea
Dr Marco Sorgato, University of Padova, Italy
Dr Victor Farm-Guoo Tseng, University of Florida, United States

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Samuel Cogar, Rutgers University, United States

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Tilo Arens, Karlsruhe Institut fuer Technologie, Germany
Dr Matthias Ehrhardt, University of Bath, United Kingdom
Professor Roland Herzog, Technische Universitat Chemnitz, Germany
Dr Peijun Li, Purdue University, United States
Dr Minh Dien Nguyen, Thu Dau Mot University, Viet Nam
Dr Jaya Prakash, Indian Institute of Science, India
Dr Zekeriya Ustaoglu, Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University, Turkey
Dr Frank Werner, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
Dr Zhidong Zhang, Helsingin yliopisto Matemaattis-luonnontieteellinen tiedekunta, Finland

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University, United States
Dr Dipti Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Dr Fahri Hizir, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Dr David Schwartz, Palo Alto Research Center, United States
Dr Ethan Secor, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
Professor Yanlin Song, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Chemistry, China

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Pedro Alberto, Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Fisica, Portugal
Professor Dr Gonzalo Ares de Parga, Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico
Professor Craig Bohren, Private Address, United States
Dr Bradley Carroll, Weber State University, United States
Dr Pierluigi Casolaro, INFN, Italy
Dr Victo dos Santos Filho, H4D Scientific Research Laboratory, Brazil
Dr D Griffiths, Reed College, United States
Professor J J Hernández-Gómez, Centro de Desarrollo Aeroespacial, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Mr Douglas Hutchison, Sinclair Community College, United States
Dr Inkeri Kontro, Helsingin yliopisto Matemaattis-luonnontieteellinen tiedekunta, Finland
Dr Elon Langbeheim, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Professor Hans Ohanian, University of Vermont, United States
Dr Jonas Persson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Professor Francesco Riggi, University of Catania, Italy
Dr Joseph Rizcallah, Lebanese University, Lebanon
Dr John Sharpe, California Polytechnic State University, United States
Dr B Suits, Michigan Technological University, United States
Dr Robert Thompson, University of Otago, New Zealand
Dr Jianming Wen, Kennesaw State University, United States
Dr Bethany Wilcox, University of Colorado Boulder, United States

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Tiziana Susca, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development – ENEA, Italy

Dr Tiziana Susca is a researcher at ENEA in Rome. She previously conducted research at Edinburgh Napier University, BAM, MCC and Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Columbia University’s Earth Institute and NASA-GISS in New York City. Her main areas of expertise are sustainability, urban climate, buildings’ energy efficiency and life cycle assessment.

Outstanding Reviewers

Mr David Abel, University of Wisconsin Madison, United States
Professor Joshua Apte, University of Texas, United States
Dr Solomon Asfaw, LUT University, Finland
Dr Sophie Bastin, UPMC Université Paris 6, France
Dr Christoph Bertram, Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung eV, Germany
Dr Edoardo Borgomeo, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Italy
Dr Ashley Broadbent, Arizona State University, United States
Dr Tim Cowan, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Senior Climate Scientist Kristina Dahl, Union of Concerned Scientists, United States
Dr Tobias Dalhaus, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Dr Kyle Davis, University of Delaware, United States
Dr Gang Dong, Shanxi University, China
Dr Lu Dong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States
Dr Arsène Druel, Institut des Geosciences de l’Environnement, France
Dr Hongbo Duan, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr Keita Ebisu, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, United States
Dr Peter Edwards, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, New Zealand
Dr David Edwards, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Dr Hajo Eicken, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States
Dr Benjamin Felzer, Lehigh University, United States
Mr Meta Francis Justine, Chengdu Institute of Biology, China
Dr Tobias Gerken, Montana State University Bozeman, United States
Dr Pan He, University of Maryland at College Park, United States
Dr Julio Herrera Estrada, Descartes Labs, United States
Dr Marc Jeuland, Duke University, United States
Assistant Professor Jonghun Kam, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea
Dr Keiichiro Kanemoto, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan
Dr John Kotcher, George Mason University, United States
Professor Manfred Lenzen, University of Sydney, Australia
Dr Tang-Huang Lin, National Central University, Taiwan
Dr Tao Liu, Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China
Dr Lauren Logan, Ohio Northern University, United States
Dr Federico Martellozzo, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
Dr Daniel Moran, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Dr Ajay Pillarisetti, University of California, Berkeley, United States
Professor Dr Fernando Prado Jr., Faculdade de Engenharia Civil- UNICAMP, Brazil
Professor Matheos Santamouris, University of Athens, Greece
Professor Ian Simmonds, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr Chandni Singh, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India
Mr Seth Spawn, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Dr HongJian Tan, Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, China
Dr Jianping Tang, Nanjing Univ, China
Dr Brian Tarroja, University of California, Irvine, United States
Dr Parth Vaishnav, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Associate Professor Giulia Vico, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Professor David Victor, University of California – San Diego, United States
Professor Dr Joshua Viers, University of California, Merced, United States
Dr Libo Wang, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada
Dr Jonathan Wang, University of California Irvine, United States
Dr Matthew Williamson, Boise State University, United States
Associate Professor Chih-Da Wu, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Dr Yangyang Xu, Texas A and M University System, United States
Dr Zhenzhong Zeng, Princeton University, United States
Dr Yuqiang Zhang, Duke University, United States
Dr Wei Zhang, University of Iowa, United States
Dr Wen Zhou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr Xudong Zhu, Xiamen University, China

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Ricaro Alvira, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Dr Giulio Nils Caroletti, Istituto di Ricerca per la Protezione Idrogeologica Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Sede di Rende, Italy
Dr Estelle Chaussard, University of Oregon, United States
Dr Warren Dick, The Ohio State University, United States
Dr Mathijs Harmsen, Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving, Netherlands
Dr Carmelo Juez, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IPE-CSIC), Spain
Dr Sirkku Juhola, University of Helsinki, Finland
Dr Christopher Kyba, Deutsches Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam, Germany
Dr Kristan Reed, Cornell University, United States
Dr Clarence Rotz, Agricultural Research Service, United States
Dr Oliver Wing, University of Bristol, United Kingdom