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Reviewer of the Year: Dr Michał Karpiński, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland

The award was a genuine surprise to me, since I am making only a very small contribution to NJP. While reviewing I try to help the authors in improving their papers. I encourage drawing proper conclusions from experimental data, including proper uncertainty analysis, which is often neglected. I also make sure there are enough technical details provided to make the work replicable.

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Johan Aberg, University of Cologne, Germany
Dr James Bagrow, University of Vermont, United States
Dr Jens Bardarson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Dr Alejandro Bermudez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Dr Horst-Holger Boltz, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany
Dr Fabio Bovino, Selex ES, Italy
Dr Andrey Brantov, Russian Academy of Sciences – P N Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Federation
Dr Hrvoje Buljan, University of Zagreb Faculty of Science, Croatia
Professor Thomas Busch, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan
Dr Robert Cameron, University of Glasgow, UK
Dr Michele Campisi, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
Dr Lucas Celeri, Federal University of Goiás, Brazil
Dr S Cornish, Durham University, UK
Dr Ben Criger, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
Dr Animesh Datta, University of Warwick, UK
Dr Gabriele De Chiara, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Dr Adolfo del Campo, University of Massachusetts, United States
Ms Olivia Di Matteo, University of Waterloo Faculty of Science, Canada
Professor Franklin Dollar, University of California Irvine, United States
Dr David Dunning, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
Professor Dr Andreas Engel, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, Germany
Professor Ora Entin-Wohlman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Professor Dr Romain Fleury, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Dr Feng Fu, Dartmouth College, United States
Dr Martin Gärttner, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Professor Dr Hans-Werner Hammer, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Dr Michael Hartmann, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Dr Yuji Hasegawa, Universitaet Wien, Austria
Dr Kaden Hazzard, Rice University, United States
Dr James Henderson, Lancaster University, UK
Dr Xiaojing Huang, Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States
Dr Marcus Huber, Universitaet Wien, Austria
Professor Kurt Jacobs, University of Massachusetts at Boston, United States
Dr Marcin Jarzyna, University of Warsaw, Poland
Dr Robert Keil, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dr Sergey Kharintsev, Kazan Federal University, Russian Federation
Dr Peter Kirton, University of St Andrews, UK
Miss Natalie Klco, University of Washington, United States
Professor Kazuhiko Kuroki, Osaka University, Japan
Dr Jiafang Li, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Professor Hartmut Lowen, Heinrich Heine Universitat Dusseldorf, Germany
Professor Niels Madsen, Swansea University, UK
Dr Antony Martin, Universite de Geneve, Switzerland
Dr Rossana Mastrandrea, IMT School for Advanced Studies, Italy
Dr Naoki Masuda, University of Bristol, UK
Professor Graeme Milton, University of Utah, United States
Dr Florian Mintert, Imperial College London, UK
Dr Alexander Mook, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Germany
Professor Ryosuke Nishi, Tottori Daigaku, Japan
Dr T Opatrny, Palacky University, Czech Republic
Professor Dr Herwig Ott, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Dr Charlotte Palmer, Lancaster University, UK
Mr Martí Perarnau-Llobet, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany
Professor Francis Robicheaux, Purdue University, United States
Dr Christian Roedel, University of Jena, Germany
Dr Mark Rudner, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Professor Wolfgang Schleich, Universitaet Ulm, Germany
Dr John Schliemann, Universitat Regensburg, Germany
Dr Mark Sherlock, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
Professor Evgeny Sherman, Universidad del Pais Vasco – Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain
Professor Henk Stoof, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
Dr Alaska Subedi, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Dr María Gloria Subías Peruga, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Dr Jifeng Sun, University of Missouri Columbia, United States
Dr Daisuke Takagi, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, United States
Professor Yoshiro Takahashi, Kyoto University, Japan
Dr Malte Tichy, Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr Koji Usami, University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr Kalman Varga, Vanderbilt University, United States
Dr Michael Wall, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, United States
Professor Xiangrong Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Dr Talitha Weiss, Max-Planck-Institut fur die Physik des Lichts, Germany
Dr James R. Wootton, Univ Basel, Switzerland
Dr Andre Xuereb, University of Malta, Malta
Dr Wen Yan, Simons Foundation, United States
Professor Kazuya Yuasa, Waseda University, Japan
Dr Tanya Zelevinsky, Columbia University, United States
Dr Xiaoguang Zhang, University of Florida, United States
Dr Yin Zhong, Lanzhou University, China
Dr David Zwicker, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany
Dr Magdalena Zych, University of Queensland, Australia

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Mike Todd, University of St Andrews, UK

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Piotr Biler, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Dr Abed Bounemoura, Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Brazil
Professor Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University, United States
Dr Maxime Ingremeau, Universite Paris-Sud, France
Dr Godofredo Iommi, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
Dr Chunhua Jin, South China Normal University, China
Dr Moon-Jin Kang, Sookmyung Women’s University, Korea (the Republic of)
Professor Carlo Laing, Massey University, New Zealand
Dr Johannes Lankeit, Universität Paderborn, Germany
Dr Jonatan Lenells, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Professor Wan-Tong Li, Lanzhou University, China
Professor Nicholas Manton, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr Gregoire Nadin, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Professor Dmitry Pelinovsky, McMaster University, Canada
Dr Ireneo Peral Alonso, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Dr Daniel Peralta-Salas, Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas, Spain
Professor Tomas Persson, Lund University, Sweden
Professor Hana Petzeltova, Czech Academy of Sciences – Institute of Mathematics, Czech Republic
Dr Milan Pokorny, Charles University, Czech Republic
Professor Eli Pollak, Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel
Dr Michael Salins, Boston University, United States
Professor Arnd Scheel, University of Minnesota, United States
Professor Carles Simo, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Dr David Simpson, Massey University, New Zealand
Dr Serge Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University, United States
Dr Pan Zheng, Chongqing University, China
Professor Henryk Zoladek, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Andrey Litnovsky, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Sebastijan Brezinsek, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Professor Rick Casten, Yale University, United States
Dr Xiu-Bo Chen, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Dr Jan Coenen, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Dr T Hirai, ITER Organization, France
Dr Alexander Huber, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Dr Stefan Jachmich, Institut fuer Energie-und Klimaforschung, Germany
Dr Wolfgang Jacob, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Germany
Professor Dr Jan Kvasil, Math. Phys. Faculty, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Dr Muyuan Li, Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Germany
Dr Jochen Linke, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Dr Vadym Makhlai, National Science Center Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Ukraine
Professor Dr Vladimir Manko, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Federation
Dr Guy Matthews, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK
Dr Sören Möller, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Professor Dr Peter Reiter, Universitat zu Koln, Germany
Professor Hamid Sepangi, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Dr Benjamin Spilker, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany
Professor John Wood, Georgia Tech, United States

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Matt Ferguson, Boise State University, United States

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Ilya Balabin, Leidos Inc, United States
Dr E Emberly, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Dr Alexander Fletcher, University of Sheffield, UK
Dr Guillermo Gomez, Center for Cancer Biology, SA Pathology and The University of South Australia, Australia
Dr Jian Liu, NIH, United States
Dr Jeremiah Zartman, University of Notre Dame, United States

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