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Physical Biology: 2016 Reviewer Awards

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Martin Falcke, Max-Delbruck-Center, Germany

Outstanding Reviewers:

Dr Aidan Brown, University of Edinburgh, UK
Professor Qiang Cui, University of Wisconsin at Madison, United States
Dr Matt Ferguson, Boise State University, United States
Dr Jasmine Foo, University of Minnesota, United States
Dr Jan Huizinga, McMaster University, Canada
Dr William Mather, Virginia Tech, United States
Dr Kei Moritsugu, RIKEN Wako Institute, Japan
Professor Christian Pous, Universite Paris-Sud, France
Dr Matthew Simpson, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Dr Abhinav Tiwari, Pfizer, United States
Dr Filipe Tostevin, Technische Universität München, Germany
Dr Lu Wen, Peking University, China

Nonlinearity: 2016 Reviewer Awards

Reviewer of the Year: Professor Dmitry Pelinovsky, McMaster University, Canada

With its balanced mix of rigorous mathematics and ‘interesting’ physics, Nonlinearity is one of Professor Dmitry Pelinovsky’s favourite journals—and the most rewarding part of refereeing for this journal is having the opportunity to be exposed to subjects that closely correlate to his past and present research projects.

Based at McMaster University in Canada, Professor Pelinovsky is also Associate Editor of Studies in Applied Mathematics (Wiley) and an editorial board member of Physical Review A (American Institute of Physics). He believes that to improve the peer review process overall, editors should ask for reviews from two or three researchers for each manuscript before deciding whether to accept or reject it. This because a decision based on one report tends to be subjective.

One paper that recently resonated with Professor Pelinovsky was Solitons in quadratic media. He believes that ‘good papers’ achieve a balance between relevant scientific problems and correct mathematical problems. Professor Pelinovsky has stringent reviewing standards; if the manuscript is either misleading or scientifically uninspiring, he will reject it. Likewise, papers that present interesting physics but have incorrect mathematical justifications—or rigorous arguments on a subject that has already been exhausted by others—will not be received positively.

He urges young mathematicians embarking on a review for the first time to have the confidence to point out arguments they suspect may be invalid or wrong. It is also important that they broaden their research horizons by keeping up to date with different research groups working on similar problems.

Outstanding Reviewers:

Dr Thomas Carr, Southern Methodist University, United States
Dr Tomasz Cieslak, Polish Academy of Sciences – Institute of Mathematics, Poland
Dr Gerhard Dangelmayr, Colorado State University, United States
Dr Francesco de Anna, Universite de Bordeaux, France
Professor Charles Doering, University of Michigan, United States
Professor Alexandre Dutrifoy, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Dr Reinhard Farwig, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
Professor Lucas C F Ferreira, State University of Campinas, Brazil
Dr Giovany Figueiredo, UFPA, Brazil
Dr Stefano Galatolo, Universita di Pisa, Italy
Dr Ryan Goh, Boston University, United States
Dr Xiaoying Han, Auburn University, United States
Dr Yulij Ilyashenko, Russian Academy of Sciences – Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russia
Dr Alexei Ilyin, Russian Academy of Science, Russia
Professor Peter Kloeden, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universitat, Germany
Dr Carlo Laing, Massey University, New Zealand
Mr Johannes Lankeit, Universität Paderborn, Germany
Professor James Meiss, University of Colorado, United States
Dr Vicenc Mendez, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Professor Eugen Mihailescu, Romanian Academy, Romania
Dr Vahagn Nersesyan, University of Versailles, France
Dr Takashi Nishikawa, Northwestern University, United States
Dr Yuan Pei, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States
Dr Stephen Schecter, North Carolina State University, United States
Dr G Seregin, University of Oxford, UK

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

Nanotechnology: 2016 Reviewer Awards

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Adriano Cola, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy

‘Nanotechnology’ is one of Dr Adriano Cola’s keywords, which is why he finds the subject matter included in Nanotechnology particularly relevant. The journal’s papers span different disciplines, with modelling and basic mechanisms as the core theme, and Dr Cola appreciates the wide-ranging perspectives that pool together towards further understanding in the field.

Dr Cola is specifically interested in carrier transport and the advanced techniques that enable investigators to probe this subject further. Hence, he cites “A review of the electrical properties of semiconductor nanowires: insights gained from terahertz conductivity spectroscopy as an enjoyable read from another IOP Publishing journal he also reviews for.

Viewing peer review as essential groundwork for research, Dr Cola looks for a message in the manuscripts he referees. He then searches for novelty, impact and vision, keeping the journal’s scope and quality standards in mind. The best papers, he says, tell a story and recount something about the authors.

Dr Cola advises first-time reviewers to approach papers with an open mind. An article’s limitations may in fact mirror the reviewer’s own research limitations, so it is important not to judge too hastily and to take your time.

Delighted with the Reviewer of the Year award, Dr Cola believes referees should be rewarded, and scored against each other according to the number of citations the reviewed paper receives in order to further motivate them. With his wife working as an associate editor for a scientific journal, it is all too clear to Dr Cola that the global reviewer database needs to be improved.

Outstanding Reviewers:

Dr Rebecca Agapov, Oak Ridge National Lab, United States
Dr Brahim Aissa, MPB Technologies Inc., Canada
Dr Cristiano Albonetti, CNR, Italy
Mr Nicklas Anttu, Lund University, Sweden
Professor Katsuhiko Ariga, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Dr Nima Arjmandi, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Dr Rob Armitage, Philips Lumileds Lighting Company, United States
Professor Dr Andres Arnau, UPV/EHU, Spain
Dr Manuel Arruebo, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Dr Mohamed Asbahi, Institute of Materials and Research for Engineering, A*STAR, Singapore
Dr Ferydon Babaei, Qom University, Iran
Professor Julien Bachmann, Friedrich Alexander Universitat Erlangen, Germany
Dr Grégory Barbillon, Universite Paris-Sud, France
Professor Salvador Barraza-Lopez, University of Arkansas, United States
Professor Mehmet Baykara, Bilkent University, Turkey
Dr Mikhael Bechelany, Eidgenossische Materialprufungs und Forschungsanstalt, Switzerland
Dr Paolo Bertoncello, Swansea University, UK
Dr Gunther Brunklaus, Westfalische Wilhelms Universitat Munster, Germany
Professor Enrique Calleja, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Professor Eva Campo, Bangor University, UK
Mr Jesus Carrete, CEA-Grenoble, France
Dr Federico Cesano, Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Mrs Stefanos Chaitoglou, University of Barcelona, Spain
Dr Sheng Hsiung Chang, National Central University, Taiwan
Ms Fanglin Che, Washington State University, United States
Professor Lung-Chien Chen, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Dr Hao Chen, Princeton University, United States
Dr Hao Chen, Princeton University, United States
Mr Ta Chou, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan
Professor Daxiang Cui, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Dr Bruno Daudin, CEA Grenoble, France
Dr Luca De Stefano, CNR – Istituto per la Microelettronica I Microsistemi, Italy
Dr Ruopeng Deng, Lam Research, United States
Professor Antonio Di Bartolomeo, Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Professor Bin Ding, Donghua University, China
Dr Bin Ding, DongHua University, China
Dr Hong Ding, Florida International University, United States
Dr Mircea Dragoman, National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnology, Romania
Mr Yuchen Du, Purdue University, United States
Dr Juan Escrig, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile
Professor Dr Guojia Fang, Wuhan University, China
Dr Haiyu Fang, UC Santa Barbara, United States
Professor Dr Mounir Gaidi, Research and technology center of energy, Tunisia
Dr Patrice Gonon, Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble I, France
Mr Johannes Gooth, University of Hamburg, Germany
Dr Bharath Govindan, Bharathiar University, India
Professor Tom Gregorkiewicz, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dr Peijun Guo, Argonne National Laboratory, United States
Professor Dr Zheng Han, Institute of Metal Research Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Professor Chuanglong He, Donghua University, China
Dr Xiaoyong He, Shanghai Normal University, China
Dr Weidong He, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States
Dr Daniel Hiller, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany
Professor Dr Xianluo Hu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Professor Xuedong Hu, University at Buffalo – SUNY, United States
Dr Youfan Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Professor Zongliang Huo, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Beijing, China
Dr Yu Ivanov, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Dr Alar Janes, University of Tartu, Estonia
Professor Guangbin Ji, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Mr Peipei Jia, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Ms Beibei Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Professor William Jo, Ewha Woman’s University, Republic of Korea
Professor Sanghyun Ju, Kyonggi University, Republic of Korea
Professor Tohru Kawamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Professor Hak Kim, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
Professor Taek-Soo Kim, KAIST, Republic of Korea
Professor Marina Koroleva, Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Russia
Mr Sowri Babu Kotikala, National Institute of Technology Warangal, India
Dr Lia Kouchachvili, Canmet Energy Technology Centre, Canada
Professor Yafei Kuang, Hunan University, China
Dr Pushpendra Kumar, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Dr Polina Kuzhir, Belarusian State University, Belarus
Dr Gi Duk Kwon, Sungkyunkwan University – Suwon Campus, Republic of Korea
Dr Wenzhang Li, Cent S Univ, China
Professor Jingbo Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Beijing, China
Dr Tao Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Electrical Engineering, China
Dr Xinming Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Dr Fengji Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr Zhefei Li, Ohio University, United States
Dr Shuyou Li, FOM Networks, Inc., United States
Dr Ruowen Liang, Fuzhou University, China
Dr Feng Liang, National Key Laboratory for Clean Application of Complex Non-ferrous Metal Resources, China
Professor Yow-Jon Lin, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan
Professor Jingquan Liu, Qingdao University, China
Professor Xuguang Liu, Taiyuan University of Technology, China
Dr Wei Liu, National University of Defense Technology, China
Professor Yan Jun Liu, South University of Science and Technology, China
Professor Dr Zheng-qi Liu, Jiangxi Normal University, China
Professor Zhuang Liu, Soochow University, Taiwan
Mr Siyang Liu, University of Texas at Austin, United States
Professor Xingming Long, Chongqing Normal University, China
Dr Ganesh Lonkar, School of Physical Science, NMU, Jalgaon, India
Dr Matteo Lorenzoni, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Professor Nan Lu, Jilin University, China
Professor Ping Lu, Long Island University, United States
Professor Linbao Luo, Hefei University of Technology, China
Dr Xi Luo, Lehigh University, United States
Dr Lin Ma, Lingnan Normal University, China
Dr Siddheswar Maikap, Chang Gung University, Taiwan
Dr Venkata Manthina, University of Connecticut, United States
Mrs Oren Meiron, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Dr Fanli Meng, Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Professor Guowen Meng, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Solid State Physics, China
Dr Xianwei Meng, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr Valentina Mussi, CNR, Italy
Dr Mohammad Najmzadeh, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Professor Douglas Natelson, Rice University, United States
Dr Hynek Nemec, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Dr Niklas Nilius, Universityof Oldenburg, Germany
Professor Alexander Obraztsov, M V Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Dr Suparna Pal, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, India
Mr Jinbo Pang, IFW Dresden, Germany
Dr Patrick Parkinson, The University of Manchester, UK
Miss Mariana Proenca, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Dr Jian Qian, University of Kansas, United States
Professor Nathaniel Quitoriano, McGill University, Canada
Professor Dr Arturo Ramirez-Porras, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
Professor Dan Rittschof, Duke University, United States
Professor Chandra Sekhar Rout, Indian Institute of Technology – Bhubaneswar, India
Dr Anushree Roy, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Professor Dr Seung Yoon Ryu, Korea University, Republic of Korea
Dr Aditya Sadhanala, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr Shanlin Shan, The University of Alabama, United States
Professor Mingwang Shao, Soochow University, China
Dr Piyush Solanki, Saurashtra University, India
Professor Michael Strano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Professor Xuping Sun, China West Normal University, China
Dr Zhimim Tao, Private Address – United States, United States
Dr Konstantinos Termentzidis, University of Lorraine, France
Dr Randall Toy, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Dr Jiang- Tu, Zhejiang University, China
Professor Herbert Urbassek, Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
Professor Dr Laudemir Varanda, Chemistry Institute of Sao Carlos, Brazil
Dr Zhiguang Wang, Virginia Tech, United States
Professor Hao Wang, Hubei University, China
Dr Xin Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Professor Xiaodong Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Semiconductors, China
Dr Dong Wang, Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Germany
Professor Xuebin Wang, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Dr Fan Wang, Chonnam National University, Republic of Korea
Dr Chih-Chieh Wang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Dr Geoffrey Wang, University of Georgia, United States
Professor Han Wang, University of Southern California, United States
Dr Luda Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Dr Mengye Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Dr Xin Wang, Northwestern University, United States
Dr Wei-Ning Wang, Washington University in St Louis, United States
Professor Xiaomu Wang, Yale Universiy, United States
Professor Frank Watt, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr Liangming Wei, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Dr Qingshan Wei, University of California – Los Angeles, United States
Dr Xiaoming Wen, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr Zhong-Shuai Wu, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chile
Dr Hung-Chun Wu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Professor Dr Wenzhuo Wu, Purdue University, United States
Dr Qiangfei Xia, University of Massachusetts, United States
Dr Yu Xia, Polyera Corporation, United States
Dr Guohua Xie, Wuhan University, China
Dr Chao Xie, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Dr Xiangfan Xu, Tongji University, China
Professor Weibing Xu, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Mr Fan Xu, University of Delaware, United States
Professor Xinyu Xue, Northeastern University, China
Professor G Yang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Dr Xiang Yang, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Professor Eui-Hyeok Yang, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States
Dr Binxing Yu, Rutgers University, United States
Dr Yifei Yu, North Carolina State University, United States
Dr Olena Yurchenko, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg Mathematisches Institut, Germany
Professor Anatoly Zayats, King’s College London – University of London, UK
Professor Qingfeng Zhan, Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr Zhenglong Zhang, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany
Dr Zhonghai Zhang, Toyama University, Japan
Ms Miao Zhang, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Dr Fan Zhang, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
Professor Yonggang Zheng, Dalian University of Technology, China
Dr Bo Zhou, City University of Hong Kong and South China University of Technology, Hong Kong
Dr Jian Zhu, Northwestern University, United States
Professor Dechun Zou, Peking University, China
Mr Xingquan Zou, University of Michigan, United States

Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering: 2016 Reviewer Awards

Reviewer of the Year: Professor Jian Wang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States

Outstanding Reviewers:

Professor Murray Daw, Clemson University, United States
Dr Benoit Devincre, CNRS-ONERA, France
Professor Stephen Foiles, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
Dr Mostafa Jamshidian, Isfahan University of Technology, Israel
Professor Qunyang Li, Tsinghua University, China
Dr Xiaoyan Li, Tsinghua University, China
Dr Ronald Miller, Carleton University, Canada
Professor Timothy Rupert, University of California, Irvine, United States
Mr Sepehr Saroukhani, Cornell University, United States
Dr Alexander Stukowski, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
Dr Yujie Wei, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Mechanics, China

Metrologia: 2016 Reviewer Awards

Outstanding Reviewers:

Dr Andreas Bauch, Physikalisch – Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
Dr Clemens Elster, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
Dr Hao Fang, BIPM, France
Dr Andrew Lewis, National Physical Laboratory, UK
Dr D Matsakis, US Naval Observatory, United States
Dr Malcolm McEwen, National Research Council of Canada – Ottawa, Canada
Professor Leslie Pendrill, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden
Dr Peter Saunders, Measurement Standards Laboratory of New Zealand, New Zealand
Dr Peter Steur, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Italy
Dr Emma Woolliams, National Physical Laboratory, UK

Methods and Applications in Fluorescence: 2016 Reviewer Awards

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Cássia A Marquezin, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

A researcher based at the Institute of Physics at Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil, Dr Cássia A Marquezin’s field of expertise is closely related to topics covered by Methods and Applications in Fluorescence, the journal for which she reviews. This is important because she strongly believes that referees should have a working knowledge of the subject matter covered in the paper they are reviewing.

In general, Dr Marquezin feels that the peer review process works well. However, she believes editors should place more care on selecting referees that are working in the same field as the journal’s content. In the same vein, first-time reviewers should only agree to evaluate a paper if it correlates to their area of research.

When reviewing, Dr Marquezin pays particular attention to the methods employed by the authors to arrive at their data analysis, and she advises those who are conducting their first review to do the same. She gains much satisfaction when papers are published after the authors have implemented her suggestions, especially if these suggestions recommend that authors include additional experiments.

Dr Marquezin is of the opinion that peer review affords her an excellent opportunity to be at the forefront of the latest developments in her field, and she cites two recent papers that particularly resonated with her: Spatiotemporal mapping of diffusion dynamics and organization in plasma membranes and “Fluorescent probes sensitive to changes in the cholesterol-to-phospholipids molar ratio in human platelet membranes during atherosclerosis.

Outstanding Reviewers:

Dr Andrey Klymchenko, Universite de Strasbourg, France
Dr Jinjun Liu, University of Louisville, United States
Dr Olaf Rolinski, Strathclyde University, UK

Preparing your source files for journal articles

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LaTeX template for journal articles

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The text of articles may be submitted in any common variant of TeX including LaTeX2e, REVTeX, AMS-LaTeX and plain TeX (including pdfTeX/pdfLaTeX). We provide a basic class file to help authors prepare articles for consideration by IOP journals, but it is not essential to use this class file or to format your article in the same style. Any common variant of TeX is acceptable.

The iopjournal class file is based on the standard LaTeX article class, with few additions. Authors can use any additional packages they choose to format their articles. For more information see the guidelines PDF file in the packages below.

One special addition to the iopjournal class is the [anonymous] option to prepare articles for double-anonymous peer review. Specify this option on the \documentclass declaration at the start of the file to exclude author names, affiliations, emails and acknowledgements (if the custom \ack command is used).

IOPP LaTeX Guidelines

For guidance on how to upload LaTeX files to ScholarOne, please refer to this author guide.

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Supplementary material and data in journal articles

IOP Publishing encourages authors to submit supplementary material and/or research data at submission. If the article is accepted for publication, each file will receive a unique digital object identifier (DOI) so that it is citable and discoverable in addition to the article itself.

Supplementary material typically includes relevant material that does not form part of the main article, such as large tables, additional figures or appendices. It may also include multimedia files, i.e. video clips, animations or sound files. Please note that multimedia files must not include any music.

Research data could include datasets, code or software files that enable the verification or reproduction of the research findings reported in the article, up to the maximum file size limit noted below.

If material is integral to the article then it must be submitted as part of the article rather than as supplementary material.

We ask authors to provide a title and description for each supplementary file. The title and description should be included within the file itself and are necessary for DOI registration. Titles must not exceed 30 characters, and descriptions must not exceed 30 words.

Title	Description
Video 1	Movie of Eng-NT-HUVEC production using low-cost automated gel aspoiration ejection at UCL, London
Supplementary Figures	Additional data on the characterisation of the endothelial cell network formation within EngNT-HUVEC
Supplementary dataset 1	Dataset including data on the characterisation of the endothelial cell network formation within EngNT-HUVEC

The description must include a brief summary of the file contents. For multimedia files the description must describe the key points that are demonstrated by the video/audio.

Supplementary material / data is not included in the PDF of the article and does not form part of the Version of Record. As they are not considered integral to the article, files will not be included in peer review by default, but they will be available for peer reviewers to check if they wish. Supplementary material / data is hosted for free with an article on IOPscience, in the format supplied by the author, and is accessible to the whole readership. Supplementary material / data is not formatted or edited by our production team, and so proofs are not provided to authors.

Files for supplementary material / data can be up to a maximum of 50 MB each, as long as the combined file size for all files including the main article is no more than 150 MB. Authors wishing to associate larger amounts of data with their article are recommended to make use of a data repository.

Authors should ensure the necessary permissions are obtained before including any third party supplementary material with their submission.