Editorial Board of Physical Review B
Early Career Researcher Advisory Board
APS Publications Leadership and Management
Editorial Roles in the Physical Review Journals
Editors of Physical Review B
Sarma Kancharla, Chief Editor
American Physical Society, USA
Sarma obtained his Ph.D. at Rutgers University in 2002, working in theoretical condensed matter physics (strongly correlated systems). He undertook postdoctoral research at Université de Sherbrooke in Québec, Canada and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee on topics such as superconductivity, doped Mott insulators, and metal-insulator transitions. He joined PRB in 2007 and became its Chief Editor in 2024.
Stephen E. Nagler, Lead Editor
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Stephen E. Nagler received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Toronto. He served two years as a visiting scientist at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, and joined the physics faculty at the University of Florida in 1984. At Oak Ridge, his primary research interests have been quantum magnetism and correlated electron systems. Named ORNL Scientist of the Year in 1998 and fellow of the American Physical Society in 2000, Nagler serves on numerous national and international committees and was a member of the Editorial Board of Physical Review Letters.
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Yonko Millev, EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Yonko received his Ph.D. degree in condensed matter physics from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, where later he became a senior research associate after holding a teaching position at TU Sofia. He did research at ICTP in Trieste and Queen’s University of Belfast. A Humboldt Fellowship enabled a long-term collaboration with the Max Planck Institutes in Stuttgart, Leipzig, and in Halle, where he was a staff scientist. His research interests are in magnetism, phase transitions, and mathematical physics. Yonko joined PRL in 2003 before moving to PRB in 2017. |
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Manolis Antonoyiannakis, Senior Associate Editor and Bibliostatistics AnalystAmerican Physical Society, USA Manolis received his Ph.D. from Imperial College London, working on electromagnetic forces in photonic crystals. He began his editorial career in Crete University Press, moving on to Physical Review B, Physical Review Letters, and Physical Review X. He also spent a 1.5-year sabbatical as scientific advisor to the President of the European Research Council. He returned to PRB in 2014. Aside from his editorial duties, Manolis is a bibliostatistics analyst in the APS, interested in research assessment, analyzing and enhancing peer review, and science policy. |
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Anthony M. Begley, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Tony is a graduate of the University of Birmingham, UK, completing his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics in 1990, involving research into the electronic structure of rare-earth metals at Birmingham and at the Daresbury Laboratory, UK. His postdoctoral research, based at SUNY Stony Brook and partly at Brookhaven National Laboratory, was focused on the structure of ultrathin metal films. Tony joined PRB in 1993. He also serves as Lead Editorial Data Analyst for the American Physical Society. |
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Ashot Melikyan, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Ashot received a B.S. from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University, working in theoretical condensed matter physics. His postdoctoral research at the University of Florida and the Argonne National Laboratory revolved primarily around high-temperature superconductivity and mesoscopic physics. He joined PRB in 2008. |
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Victor Vakaryuk, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Victor received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Lab and at Johns Hopkins University. His research topics include exotic superconductivity, graphene, and transport in nanostructures. He joined PRB in 2013. |
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Ana Akrap, Associate EditorUniversity of Fribourg, Switzerland Ana received her MSc from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and her Ph.D. from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. She spent two years as a postdoc at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and later worked at the University of Geneva. Currently she is an associate professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Her main research interest is in magneto-optical and infrared spectroscopy of topological materials. |
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Jerry I. Dadap, Jr., Associate EditorUniversity of British Columbia, Canada Jerry received his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Texas at Austin. After his postdoctoral work at Columbia University and a brief interlude in the telecom industry working on MEMS, he became a research scientist back at Columbia. His research interests include the electronic structure and optical properties of 2D materials, surfaces, and interfaces; nonlinear optical materials; and silicon photonics. He is now a senior research scientist at the University of British Columbia. He was an Associate Editor of Optics Express in 2011-2015. In 2015, he became an Associate Editor at PRB. |
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Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Associate EditorUniversity of Sherbrooke, Canada Nicolas completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 2003, having worked on strongly correlated materials at the Cavendish Laboratory. He was then awarded a Junior Research Fellowship to pursue postdoctoral work at Cambridge. In 2004 he moved to the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada where he took up a research associate position, working chiefly on high-temperature superconductors and quantum magnets. He is now advising the Québec government on quantum technologies and joined PRB as an Associate Editor in 2021. |
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Keith Gilmore, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Keith completed his Ph.D. in physics on the topic of magnetization dynamics at Montana State University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He then held postdoctoral fellowships at NIST and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab before becoming a faculty member within the Nanoscience Department of Soochow University in Suzhou, China. He was subsequently a staff scientist at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, and at Brookhaven National Lab. His research interests center around first-principles, many-body calculations for condensed matter systems with a particular emphasis on spectroscopy. Keith joined PRB in 2022. |
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Jason T. Haraldsen, Associate EditorUniversity of North Florida, USA Jason received his B.S. in chemistry and physics from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratories and as a Visiting Professor at James Madison University. Jason is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of North Florida, working on understanding complex material interactions including magnetic and multiferroic excitations in oxides and 2D Dirac materials. He joined PRB in 2015 as an Associate Editor. |
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Robert M. Konik, Associate EditorBrookhaven National Laboratory, USA Robert received his B.Sc. from the University of Calgary and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He works on the theory of strongly correlated systems and is currently the Chair of the Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory. |
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Junjie Li , Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Junjie Li received his M.S. in optics in 2005 from Wuhan University and earned a Ph.D. in condensed matter physics in 2011 from Florida State University. He worked as a Research Associate at the University of Illinois, followed by a postdoctoral research associate position at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Later, he was converted to a Staff Scientist at Brookhaven. With a strong background in experimental materials physics, optics, and instrumentation, Junjie joined the Physical Review family of journals in 2023. |
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Awadhesh Narayan, Associate EditorIndian Institute of Science, India Awadhesh is an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Science. He obtained his Ph.D. (2015) from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where his dissertation won the Dan Bradley prize. After postdoctoral appointments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and ETH Zurich, Switzerland, he joined the Indian Institute of Science in 2019. He was selected as an outstanding referee of the American Physical Society in 2023. His research interests are in condensed matter and materials theory, including topological phases, ferroic materials, and non-Hermitian systems. He joined PRB in 2024 as an Associate Editor. |
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Bradley Rubin, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Brad received a B.S. from the University of Maryland in College Park and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University in 1990 (high-energy physics). He subsequently held research positions at NASA in Huntsville, Alabama and the Riken Institute in Japan. He joined PRB in 1999. |
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Paul Snijders, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Paul received his M.Sc. in Materials Science and Technology at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands working on the characterization of the structure of ultrathin disordered oxide films using photoelectron spectroscopy. He received his Ph.D. at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology studying electronic instabilities and structural fluctuations in self-assembled atom wires. He worked as a Wigner Fellow and research staff member at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for ten years before joining PRB in 2017. |
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Hari Srikanth, Associate EditorUniversity of South Florida, USA Hari received his Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics from the Indian Institute of Science in 1994. After several years of postdoctoral research he joined the University of South Florida in 2000 as an Assistant Professor. He is currently a Distinguished University Professor at USF and directs the Functional Materials Laboratory. Hari’s research interests are in magnetic materials, nanomagnetism, spintronics, multiferroics, multicalorics, and correlated materials. He is a Fellow of the APS and IOP. Hari joined PRB in 2021 as an Associate Editor. |
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Marie Rupolo, Senior Editorial AssistantAmerican Physical Society, USA Marie started her career in the APS in 1990 as a proofreader and went on to be an editorial support coordinator and an editorial assistant. She started working exclusively for PRB in 1992 and joined the PRB editorial team in 2004. |
Editorial Board
Term ending 14 October 2024
Gerrit Bauer, University of Groningen and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; Tohoku University and National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Manfred Bayer, Technical University Dortmund, Germany
María José Calderón, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Spain
Guang-Han Cao, Zhejiang University, China
Xie Chen, California Institute of Technology, USA
M.M. Glazov, Ioffe Institute, Russia
Julia S. Meyer, Grenoble Alpes University, France
Janice Musfeldt, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA
Zlatko Papic, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Term ending 14 April 2025
Liliana Arrachea, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
J. Hugo Dil, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Lucas Lindsay, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Term ending 31 January 2026
Yukio Hasegawa, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa (Chiba), Japan
Maxim Mostovoy, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Boris Svistunov, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Term ending 30 April 2026
Alexey Chernikov, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany
Yann Gallais, Universite Paris Cité, France
Li Ge, College of Staten Island and CUNY Graduate Center, USA
Philip Hofmann, Aarhus University, Denmark
Marcelo Jaime, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Elizabeth A. Nowadnick, University of California, Merced, USA
Nicolae C. Panoiu, University College London, United Kingdom
Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India
Zhong Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Steffen Wiedmann, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Term ending 31 August 2026
Wenhui Duan, Tsinghua University, China
Antonio Fernandez-Dominguez, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Matthew Hastings, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Titus Neupert, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Peihong Zhang, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA
Term ending 30 June 2027
Defang Duan, Jilin University, China
Igor Herbut, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Yasir Iqbal, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Early Career Researcher Advisory Board
Term ending 31 March 2026
Sergey Artyukhin, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Sol Carretero-Palacios, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
Laura Classen, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkorperforschung, Germany
Mehrdad Elyasi, Tohoku University, Japan
Antonija Grubisic-Cabo, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Alannah Hallas, University of British Columbia, Canada
Chengyun Hua, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Chunjing Jia, University of Florida, USA
Seung-Sup B. Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea
Shiming Lei, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Jia I.A. Li, Brown University, USA
Johanna Palmstrom, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Kemp Plumb, Brown University, USA
Saquib Shamim, S.N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, India
Yishu Wang, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Darshana Wickramaratne, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Liang Wu, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Linda Ye, California Institute of Technology, USA