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Reviewer of the Year: Dr James Chow, University of Toronto and University Health Network, Canada

Reviewing articles for publication in Physics in Medicine and Biology (PMB) is a mission to bring research to new heights. One looks for innovation, endeavour, and solutions to challenging questions. Dr. James Chow ensures our vigorous peer review process identifies excellence, helping contributors to take leaps to create new knowledge.

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Gerard Ariño-Estrada, University of California Davis, United States
Dr Bing Bai, Toshiba America Medical Systems, United States
Dr William Beasley, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Dr Hamza Benmakhlouf, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
Dr Oliver Blanck, University Medical Center of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Dr Martin Caon, Flinders University, Australia
Professor Marta Cavagnaro, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Dr Hans Crezee, Academic Medical Centre-Amsterdam University, Netherlands
Dr Junwei Du, University of California – Davis, United States
Professor Oleksandr Dzyubak, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare All Saints, United States
Dr Kenneth Foster, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Dr Patrick Vincent Granton, ErasmusMC Cancer Institute, Canada
Professor Chuan Huang, Stony Brook Medicine, United States
Mr Rungroj Jintamethasawat, University of Michigan Department of Radiology, United States
Professor Bleddyn Jones, University of Oxford, UK
Dr Nobuyuki Kanematsu, National Institute of Radiological Sciences Hospital, Japan
Dr Antonio Lallena, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Dr Guillaume Landry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Dr Martin Lepage, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada
Dr Xin Li, GE Global Research, United States
Ms Sara Lim, Medical College of Wisconsin, United States
Dr Feng Liu, University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Xuan Liu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States
Mr Matteo Maspero, Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht, Netherlands
Dr Mark McJury, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, UK
Dr Mehdi Moghari, Children’s Hospital Boston, United States
Dr Tianye Niu, Zhejiang University, China
Professor Stig Ollmar, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Dr Panagiotis Papagiannis, University of Athens Medical School, Greece
Dr Guntram Pausch, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
Dr Devis Peressutti, King’s College London, UK
Dr Antonios Pouliopoulos, Columbia University, United States
Dr Xulei Qin, Stanford University, United States
Dr Didier Rajon, University of Florida, United States
Dr Satyapal Rathee, University of Alberta, Canada
Dr Bradley Roth, Oakland University, United States
Dr Chengyu Shi, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center – Basking Ridge, United States
Dr Jung Wook Shin, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, United States
Dr Herbert Stepp, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Dr Shengzhen Tao, Mayo Clinic Minnesota, United States
Dr Greg Thurber, University Michigan Ann Arbor, United States
Dr Kenneth Tichauer, Illinois Institute of Technology, United States
Professor Dongxu Wang, University of Iowa, United States
Dr Wenbo Wei, The Ohio State University, United States
Mr Dufan Wu, Massachusetts General Hospital, United States
Dr Jia Wu, Stanford University, United States
Dr Yuxiang Xing, Tsinghua University, China
Dr Huijun Xu, University of Maryland School of Medicine, United States
Dr Dandan Zheng, University of Nebraska Medical Center, United States
Dr Yufeng Zhou, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Reviewer of the Year: Associate Professor Dr Daniel Schneditz, Otto Loewi Research Center, Medical University of Graz, Austria

Trained in chemistry and experimental physics, Dr. Schneditz teaches undergraduate physiology and conducts applied physiological research mainly in applications with end stage renal disease patients. He appreciates the opportunity of reviewing manuscripts because it keeps him abreast of recent developments and also because he sees it as his academic duty.

Outstanding Reviewers

Prof Dr Johan Arends, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
Dr Ali Azarbarzin, Harvard Medical School, United States
Dr Matthew Brodie, Neuroscience Research Australia, Australia
Mr Francesco Cenni, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Faculteit Wetenschappen, Belgium
Dr Scott Conger, Boise State University, United States
Dr Mihai Gherase, California State University Fresno, United States
Dr Diana Hodgins, European Technology for Business Holdings Ltd., UK
Dr Chengyu Huo, Changshu Institute of Technology, China
Dr Roberto Maestri, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri, SpA, SB, Italy
Professor Patrick Segers, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Dr Bart Spronck, Yale University, United States
Professor Tatsuo Togawa, Waseda University, Japan
Professor E Williams, University of South Wales, UK
Dr Xiyun Zhang, Boston University, United States

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Olivier Izacard, Princeton University, United States

Dr Olivier Izacard works at Princeton University, USA, on plasma physics for magnetized controlled fusion. His work involves the development of kinetic and fluid theoretical models and edge numerical simulations. He has been selected in 2016 as one of the Outstanding Reviewers for Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, and in August 2017 he received a Directorate Award from the Physical and Life Science department of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for his research on kinetic effects in fluid theory. As a reviewer of a few journals, Dr Izacard tries to perform his reviews as if he were a co-author of the manuscript, since peer-reviews are one of the best ways to improve the scientific quality of papers. He hopes that this kind of investment will become standard for reviewers.

Outstanding Reviewers

Professor Sergei Bulanov, JAEA Kansai Photon Science Institute, Japan
Dr Mark Dieckmann, Linkoping University, Sweden
Dr Antti Hakola, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Finland
Dr Eric Howell, Auburn University, United States
Dr Valentin Igochine, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Germany
Mr Aaro Jaervinen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
Dr C.-S. Jao, Institute of Space Science, National Central University, Taiwan
Mr Rogério Jorge, Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne Faculte des sciences de base, Switzerland
Professor Rony Keppens, Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research, Netherlands
Dr Ralph Kube, University of Tromso, Norway
Dr Fei Li, Tsinghua University, China
Dr Erzhong Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Hefei Institutes of Physical Sciences, China
Dr Felix Mackenroth, Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik komplexer Systeme, Germany
Dr Alberto Marocchino, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Italy
Professor Jose Mendonca, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Dr Federico Nespoli, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr Gianluca Sarri, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Dr Ulrich Schramm, Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
Dr Tomonori Takizuka, Osaka University, Japan
Dr Csaba Toth, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States

Reviewer of the Year: Professor Jon Tomas Gudmundsson, University of Iceland, Iceland

Professor Gudmundsson is professor of Physics and a Guest Professor at the Department of Space and Plasma Physics, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm Sweden. His research spans various low pressure discharges, including capacitively coupled discharges, inductively coupled discharges, magnetron sputtering discharges, Hall thrusters etc., which he has explored experimentally and with modeling work, which includes volume averaged global models and particle-in-cell Monte Carlo simulations. He also studies thin film deposition and characterization.

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Yangyang Fu, Michigan State University, United States
Professor Steven Girshick, University of Minnesota, United States
Professor Yuri Golubovskii, St Petersburg University, Russian Federation
Dr Alan Howling, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr Michael Johnson, Naval Research Laboratory, United States
Professor Yakov Krasik, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Dr Dmitry Levko, The University of Texas at Austin, United States
Professor Tiberiu Minea, Universite de Paris-Sud, France
Dr Andrei Pipa, Leibniz Institut fuer Plasmaforschung und Technologie, Germany
Dr A. Ricard, Toulouse University, France
Dr Naoki Shirai, Hokkaido Daigaku, Japan
Dr Milan Šimek, Institute of Plasma Physics, v.v.i., Czech Republic
Dr Andrey Starikovskiy, Princeton University, United States
Dr Erik Wagenaars, University of York, UK
Dr Oleg Zatsarinny, Drake University, United States

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Mikio Fujiwara, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Dr Marco Genovese, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Italy
Dr Kurt Jacobs, University of Massachusetts at Boston, United States
Dr Michael Jarret, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
Dr Florian Kaiser, Universite de Nice – Sophia Antipolis, France
Dr Ying Li, China Academy of Engineering Physics, China
Dr Marco Lucamarini, Toshiba Research Europe, UK
Dr Franco Nori, University of Michigan and RIKEN Wako Institute, Japan
Dr Hannes Pichler, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Institute for Theoretical Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, United States
Dr Neil Julien Ross, Dalhousie University, Canada
Dr Toshihiko Sasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr Joshua Slater, University of Vienna, Austria
Dr Frank Wilhelm, Universitat des Saarlandes, Germany
Dr Naoki Yamamoto, Keio University, Japan
Dr Isabelle Zaquine, CNRS/ LTCI, Telecom ParisTech, France

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Armando Arellano Ferro, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
Dr Fabiola Campos, University of Texas at Austin, United States
Dr Aaron Chippendale, CSIRO, Australia
Dr Pedro Figueira, Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences, Portugal and European Southern Observatory, Chile
Dr Frans Snik, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands

Reviewer of the Year: Professor Roland Van Meirhaeghe, Universiteit Gent, Belgium

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Xinyu Bao, Stanford University, United States
Dr Stanislav Cichon, Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic
Dr Adriano Cola, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Professor Giovanni Crupi, Universita degli Studi di Messina, Italy
Professor Dr Xiao-Sheng Fang, Fudan University, China
Dr Eugenijus Gaubas, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Dr Zhen Guo, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr Martin Hempel, Fraunhofer-Institut fur Zuverlassigkeit und Mikrointegration, Germany
Mr Jae Hur, Korea Advanced Institution of Science and Technology, Korea (the Republic of)
Dr Saumil Joshi, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
Dr Suwit Kiravittaya, Naresuan University, Thailand
Professor Kazuhiro Kudo, Chiba University, Japan
Mr Honglai Li, Hunan University, China
Professor Dr Xi Lin, Peking University, China
Professor Ming Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Beijing, China
Dr Andrew Lohn, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
Dr Mohammad Najmzadeh, Intel Corporation, United States
Dr Erwin Peiner, TU Braunschweig, University of technology, Germany
Dr Roman Stoklas, IEE SAS, Slovakia
Dr Victor Vainberg, Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
Professor Roland Van Meirhaeghe, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Dr Zhengjun Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Mr Gaoxue Wang, Michigan technological University, United States
Dr Mengye Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnical University, Hong Kong
Dr G Zoppi, Northumbria University, UK

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Pawel Kudela, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Outstanding Reviewers
Dr Amirreza Aghakhani, Koc Universitesi, Turkey
Dr Jingjing Bao, University of South Carolina – Columbia, United States
Dr Ron Barrett, University of Kansas, United States
Professor Philippe Benech, IMEP-LAHC, France
Professor Dr Laurence Bodelot, LMS Ecole Polytechnique, France
Dr Sebastien Boisseau, CEA Grenoble, France
Professor Dr Junyi Cao, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Professor Joan Casas, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Professor P Cawley, Imperial College London, UK
Dr Tinghai Cheng, Changchun University of Technology, China
Dr Alessandro Chiolerio, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Dr Eugenio Dragoni, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Dr Sascha Duczek, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
Dr Artem Eremin, Kuban State University, Russian Federation
Dr Soheil Gohari, University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor Xinglong Gong, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Dr Hong Hu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Dr Lin-Sheng Huo, Dalian University of Technology, China
Professor Eric Jacquelin, Universite Claude Bernard – Lyon I, France
Dr Łukasz Jankowski, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (IPPT PAN), Poland
Dr Yu Jia, University of Chester, UK
Professor Minkwan Ju, Kangwon National University, Korea (the Republic of)
Professor Dr Marc-Andre Keip, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Professor Gi-Woo Kim, Inha University, Korea, Republic of
Professor Dr Roderic Lakes, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Dr Mickael Lallart, INSA de Lyon, France
Dr Weijie Li, University of Houston, United States
Dr Wang Lin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Professor Kanjuro Makihara, Tohoku University, Japan
Dr Md. Abdul Halim Miah, University of Utah, United States
Dr Magdalena Mieloszyk, Polish Academy of Sciences – Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery, Poland
Dr Jochen Moll, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Dr Luciano Moro, Universita di Udine, Italy
Dr Masaki Omiya, Keio University, Japan
Dr John Philip, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, India
Mr Do Xuan Phu, INha Univ, Korea, Republic of
Dr Ranjith Ramadurai, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
Mr Gianluca Rizzello, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Dr Samuel Rosset, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Dr Ayan Sadhu, Western University, Canada
Mr QI SHEN, University of Nevada Las Vegas, United States
Dr Anne Skov, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Professor Johannes Smits, , Italy
Professor Tadeusz Stepinski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Mr Binh Truong, University College of Southeast Norway, Norway
Dr Yufeng Wang, University of Southern California, United States
Dr Fan Wang, Chonnam National University, Korea, Republic of
Dr Jiawen Xu, University of Connecticut, United States
Dr Qingsheng Yang, Beijing University of Technology, China
Dr Jin Yang, Chongqing University, China
Dr Pengfei Zhang, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, United States
Dr Junshi Zhang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Professor Haijun Zhou, Shenzhen University, China
Professor Jinxiong Zhou, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Dr Junxiao Zhu, University of Houston, United States

Reviewer of the Year: Professor Richard Klemm, University of Central Florida, United States

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Zigang Deng, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Dr Raja Sekhar Dondapati, Lovely Professional University, India
Dr Daniel Gajda, International Laboratory of High, Poland
Dr Probir Ghoshal, Jefferson Laboratory, United States
Professor Jung Grzegorz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Professor Dr Kazumasa Iida, Nagoya Daigaku, Japan
Dr Guangze Li, General Motors Technical Center, United States
Professor Shuo Li, Northeastern University, China
Dr Frank Ludwig, Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Germany
Dr Michael Mueck, ez SQUID Mess und Analysegeraete, Germany
Mr Manivannan Nallaiyan, Quantum Design, United States
Dr Mark Raine, University of Durham, UK
Dr Liangliang Rong, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, China
Professor Daniel Santavicca, University of North Florida, United States
Dr Aifeng Wang, Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States
Dr Huan Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Plasma Physics, China
Professor Yutaka Yamada, Tokai University, Japan
Dr Min Zhang, University of Bath, UK

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Ahmed Abd El-Rahman, Sohag University, Egypt
Professor Azzeddine Debhi-Alaoui, University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Morocco
Dr Karekin Esmeryan, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences – Institute of Solid State Physics, Bulgaria
Professor Anne-Marie Kietzig, McGill University, Canada
Professor C. H. Lee, Inha University, Korea, Republic of
Dr Francesco Marinello, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Dr Yixiang Ou, Tsinghua University, China
Dr Michimasa Uchidate, Iwate University, Japan