Archives: Questions

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Bethany Wilcox, Colorado School of Mines, United States

Outstanding Reviewers

Professor Paolo Amore, Universidad de Colima, Mexico
Professor Bjarne Andresen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Professor Dr Gonzalo Ares de Parga, Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico
Professor Brian Burrows, Staffordshire University, UK
Professor Rod Cross, University of Sydney, Australia
Professor Celia de Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Dr Biswaranjan Dikshit, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India
Professor V Epp, Tomsk State Pedagogical University, Russian Federation
Professor Dr Aleksandar Gjurchinovski, St Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of
Professor Judy Hardy, University of Edinburgh, UK
Professor Jose Iniguez, University of Salamanca, Spain
Professor B Meister, Imperial College London, UK
Dr Fernando Minotti, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Professor Carl Mungan, US Naval Academy, United States
Professor Dr Maris Ozolinsh, University of Latvia, Latvia
Dr Jonas Persson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Dr John Roche, University of Oxford, UK
Associate Professor Dr Jaroslaw Sikora, Lublin University of Technology, Poland
Dr B H Suits, Michigan Technological University, United States
Professor F M Toyama, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Dr Jianming Wen, Yale University, United States

Reviewer of the Year: Professor Dr Alessandro Chiolerio, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Attila Geczy, Budapest Univ Technol, Hungary
Dr Sahika Inal, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Dr Krzysztof Krawczyk, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
Professor Hiroyuki Matsui, Yamagata University, Japan

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Tanja Tarvainen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Mohammad Azizian Kalkhoran, Institute of Cancer Research, UK
Professor Zheng-Jian Bai, Xiamen University, China
Dr Anwei Chai, Stanford University, United States
Dr Aleksander Denisiuk, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
Professor Michael Klibanov, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States
Dr Victor Kovtunenko, Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Austria
Dr Shuai Lu, Fudan University, China
Professor Sunghwan Moon, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, Republic of
Dr Gangrong Qu, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Dr Frank Schoepfer, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, Germany
Professor S Serra-Capizzano, University of Insubria, Italy
Professor Dr Alexandre Timonov, University of South Carolina Upstate, United States
Dr Zekeriya USTAOGLU, Bulent Ecevit Universitesi, Turkey
Dr Anh Khoa Vo, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
Dr Frank Werner, Max-Planck-Institut fur biophysikalische Chemie, Germany

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Andras Bikov, Semmelweis University, Hungary
Dr Elliott Dasenbrook, Cleveland Clinic, United States
Dr Sandrah Eckel, University of Southern California, United States
Professor Dr Tadeusz Jezierski, Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding of Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Professor Giovanni Rolla, Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Dr Pritam Sukul, University Medicine of Rostock, Germany
Dr Ikuo Ueta, Univ Yamanashi, Japan
Dr Ariel Wallace, United States Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park Campus, United States

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Douglas Sparks, Hanking Electronics LLC, China

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Hamzeh Bardaweel, Clemson University, United States
Dr Lingqian Chang, University of North Texas, United States
Dr Lingxin Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, China
Dr X Chen, Liaoning University of Technology, China
Dr Huanyu Cheng, Pennsylvania State University, United States
Professor M Cronin-Golomb, Tufts University, United States
Professor Bo Cui, University of Waterloo, Canada
Dr Jing Dai, Texas A&M University, United States
Dr Zoltan Fekete, Faculty of Information Technology & Bionics, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary
Dr Vinh Ho, University of California Irvine, United States
Dr Jacopo Iannacci, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Dr Young-Rok Kim, Kyung Hee University, Korea, Republic of
Dr David Kohen, SMART, Singapore
Dr Nathan Lazarus, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, United States
Dr Yen-Min Lee, ASML Holdding, United States
Dr Hui Li, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr Yang Liu, California Institute of Technology, United States
Mr Ruochen Lu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, United States
Dr Jun Ma, Applied Materials Inc, United States
Dr Nicolaie Moldovan, Advanced Diamond Technologies Inc, United States
Dr Erwin Peiner, TU Braunschweig, University of technology, Germany
Professor Antonio Pouzada, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Dr Xiaopeng Qu, Duke University, United States
Mr Evaldas Stankevičius, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Lithuania
Dr Chao Wang, IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center, United States
Dr Li-Feng Wang, Key Laboratory of MEMS of Ministry of Education，Southeast University, China
Mr Weihe Xu, Brookhaven National Lab, United States
Dr Yong Xu, Wayne State University, United States

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Mads Jochumsen, Aalborg University, Denmark

It is an honour to receive such an award! I have often received very useful and constructive reviews where the reviewers have invested a considerable amount of time for improving my work. This is also the same kind of service that I strive to put into my reviews.

Outstanding Reviewers

Mr Michael Atanov, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of RAS, Russian Federation
Dr Trent Bradberry, Elder Research, Inc., United States
Dr Tim Bruns, University of Michigan, United States
Dr Ricardo Chavarriaga, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr Patrick Crago, Case Western Reserve University, United States
Dr Andrey Eliseyev, CLINATEC, France
Mr Ping-Keng Jao, EPFL, Switzerland
Dr Jing Jin, East China University of Science and Technology, China
Dr Stiliyan Kalitzin, Dutch Epilepsy Clinics Foundation, Netherlands
Dr Agatha Lenartowicz, University of California Los Angeles, United States
Dr Matias Maturana, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr Masaki Nakanishi, University of California San Diego, United States
Dr Xavier Navarro, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Professor Joseph Pancrazio, George Mason University, United States
Dr Sivylla Paraskevopoulou, Wadsworth Center, United States
Professor Riccardo Poli, Essex University, UK
Professor Frank Rattay, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria
Dr William Speier, University of California – Los Angeles, United States
Dr Martin Spueler, Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany
Professor Dr Ivan Volosyak, Hochschule Rhein-Waal, Germany
Dr John Wolf, Penn Medicine, United States
Dr Vahab Youssofzadeh, University of Ulster, UK
Dr Jose Zariffa, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute – University Health Network, Canada
Dr Dan Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Christos Tserkezis, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Christos Tserkezis is a theoretical condensed-matter physicist, focussing on quantum plasmonics. He has long been an active reviewer for Journal of Optics, and thinks that scientific research should be above personal or financial interests. In this respect, peer-reviewing is vital in ensuring that the best new research reaches the community.

Outstanding Reviewers

Professor Dr Younis Atiah, University of Misan, Iraq
Professor Grégory Barbillon, EPF-Ecole d’Ingénieurs, Sceaux, France
Professor Paul Buah-Bassuah, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Dr Paulo Caldas, IPVC / INESC Porto, Portugal
Dr Hui Chen, GlobalFoundries Inc., United States
Miss Shiyi Chen, Cisco Systems Inc, United States
Mr Ahmet Fatih Cihan, Stanford University, United States
Dr Basil Davis, Xavier University of Louisiana, United States
Mr Huixu Deng, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States
Professor Andrea Fratalocchi, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Dr Yuriy Garbovskiy, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, United States
Professor Franco Gori, Universita degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italy
Mr Sascha Grusche, University of Education Weingarten, Germany
Dr Jungang Huang, South Wales University, UK
Dr Siegfried Janz, National Research Council of Canada – Ottawa, Canada
Dr Guomin Jiang, University of Miami, United States
Dr Ahmad Kharaz, University of Derby, UK
Professor Detlef Kip, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Germany
Dr Kaisa Laiho, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
Dr Dawei Li, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Dr Sui Liansheng, Xi’an University of Technology, China
Professor Dr Zheng-qi Liu, Jiangxi Normal University, China
Dr Wolfgang Loeffler, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
Mr Dajiang Lu, Shenzhen University, China
Dr Hailu Luo, Hunan University, China
Professor Xiangang Luo, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Optics and Electronics, China
Dr Sebastian Schulz, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
Dr Manuel Servin Guirado, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica A. C., Mexico
Dr Thomas Sondergaard, Aalborg University, Denmark
Dr Jianming Wen, Yale University, United States
Dr YI WENG, NEC Laboratories America Inc, United States
Dr Withawat Withayachumnankul, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Professor Xiaodong Yang, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States
Dr Fucai Zhang, University of Sheffield, UK
Dr Dengwei Zhang, Zhejiang University, China
Professor Guoquan Zhou, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, China
Professor Dr Nanrun Zhou, Nanchang University, China

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Miquel Montero, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Franco Bagnoli, Università di Firenze, Italy
Professor Manuel Caceres, Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica – Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentina
Dr Steve Campbell, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Milano & Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Dr Olalla Castro-Alvaredo, City University City, UK
Dr Bin Chen, Peking University, China
Professor Fabrizio Colombo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Dr Tobias Galla, The University of Manchester, UK
Dr Jiangbin Gong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr Uwe Guenther, Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf, Germany
Dr B Henry, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr Ming-Liang Hu, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Dr Jukka Kiukas, Aberystwyth University, UK
Dr Jonas Maziero, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil
Professor Antonio Politi, University of Aberdeen, UK
Dr Giovanni Rastelli, Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Dr Enrique Rico Ortega, Universitaet Ulm, Germany
Professor Dr Angel Sanz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Professor Shin-ichi Sasa, Kyoto University, Japan
Dr Martin Stefanak, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Outstanding Reviewers of the Advisory Board

Dr Vsevolod Adler, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Federation
Professor Eugene Bogomolny, Universite de Paris-Sud, France
Dr David Burton, Lancaster University, UK
Professor Mohammed Daoud, Universite Hassan II Casablanca, Morocco
Professor Andreas Fring, City, University of London, UK
Professor Giuseppe Gonnella, Universita’ di Bari, Italy
Professor Gebhard Gruebl, Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria
Dr Xi-Wen Guan, The Australian National University, Australia
Dr Georg Junker, European Southern Observatory, Germany
Professor Peter Olver, University of Minnesota, United States
Professor Uwe Tauber, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, United States

Reviewer of the Year: Professor Dejan Milošević, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

It is a great honour for me that you have selected me among all the scientists who have served as the referees for your journal. In fact, now is 30 years since you have published my very first paper. The role of the referees can be more important than they can imagine.

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Zikri Altun, Marmara University, Turkey
Professor Torkild Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr Sahel Ashhab, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar
Professor Nigel Badnell, Strathclyde University, UK
Dr B Barmashenko, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Dr Anand Bhatia, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
Professor Brian Burrows, Staffordshire University, UK
Dr Wei Cao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Dr Rajat Chaudhuri, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, India
Dr Xiaoling Cui, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Professor Aurelien Dantan, Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr B deHarak, Illinois Wesleyan University, United States
Dr Haoquan Fan, University of Maryland, United States
Dr Luis Fernandez-Menchero, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Dr Gleb Gribakin, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Dr Kari Jankala, University of Oulu, Finland
Dr Martin Kiffner, University of Oxford, UK
Professor Mats Larsson, University of Stockholm, Sweden
Dr Jia-Hua Li, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Dr Fang Liu, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Dr Tonghui Liu, Tianjin University, China
Dr Yunrong Luo, Hunan Normal University, China
Professor Dr Marcel Mudrich, Universitaet Freiburg, Germany
Dr Christian Parigger, University of Tennessee, United States
Dr Krzysztof Pawlowski, Centre for Theoretical Physics of Polish Academy of Science, Poland
Professor Piotr Petelenz, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski Krakow, Poland
Dr Tonu Pullerits, Lund University, Sweden
Professor Jagos Puric, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Dr Blas Manuel Rodriguez-Lara, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico
Dr Jiteng Sheng, University of Arkansas, United States
Professor Xiaofeng Shi, Xidian University, China
Dr Lauri Toikka, Institute for Basic Science, Korea (the Republic of)
Dr Eric Wells, Augustana College, United States
Dr Kai-Jun Yuan, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada
Dr Oleg Zatsarinny, Drake University, United States
Dr Boris Zhilinskii, Universite du Littoral cote d’Opale, France

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Brett Altschul, University of South Carolina – Columbia, United States

I am honored and proud to support the Journal of Physics Communications. Open access online publishing, with refereeing based solely on scientific correctness, is an important recent development, and the Journal of Physics Communications provides a venue for many results that might otherwise be impossible for most readers to access.

Outstanding Reviewers

Dr Lubomir Benco, Vienna University, Austria
Dr Benjamin Brecht, University of Oxford, UK
Dr Bing-Yang Cao, Tsinghua University, China
Dr Emerson Chiquillo, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Colombia
Dr Francesca Doddato, Lancaster University, UK
Dr Irina Dymnikova, A.F.Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Federation
Dr Guanghua Fan, Harbin Institute of Techology at Weihai, China
Dr Shane Farnsworth, Perimeter Institute, Canada
Dr Ralf Feyerherm, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fuer Materialien und Energie GmbH, Germany
Dr Carlos García-Meca, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Dr Kenneth Hammond, Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik Teilinstitut Greifswald, Germany
Dr Brigitte Hiller, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Dr Jesper Ipsen, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr John Kirtley, Stanford University, United States
Dr Ohkyung Kwon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (the Republic of)
Dr Kasim Ocakoglu, Mersin Universitesi, Turkey
Dr Ivan Oleynik, University of South Florida, United States
Dr Nicola Omodei, Stanford University, United States
Dr Adelmo Ortiz-Conde, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
Dr Marta Pelc, Donostia International Physics Center, Spain
Dr Francesco Renga, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Roma, Italy
Dr Daniela Rupp, Max-Born-Institut fur Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Germany
Dr Julio Sagás, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Mr Sören Sanders, Carl von Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg, Germany
Dr Ilya Sychugov, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Dr Elmar Traebert, Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum, Germany
Dr Jakub Zakrzewski, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski Krakow, Poland