Editorial Board of Physical Review D
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Editors of Physical Review D
Urs M. Heller, Chief Editor
American Physical Society, USA
Urs received a diploma in physics at the ETH Zürich and a Ph.D. in theoretical high energy physics at Rutgers University. He held postdoctoral research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, at CERN, and at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB. Afterwards, he was a research scientist at Florida State University, working in lattice QCD, before joining PRD in 2002.
Mirjam Cvetič, Lead Editor
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Mirjam received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland in 1981. After a post-doctoral fellowship at SLAC at Stanford University, she moved to the University of Pennsylvania where she is now a Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor of Physics and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Mathematics. Her research efforts span from leading work in string theory compactification and its particle physics implications to important work in quantum gravity consequences of string theory. She is an APS Fellow (2001), a recipient of the University of Maryland Physics Distinguished Alumni Award (2007), the Siemens Research Prize by the Humboldt Foundation (2020), and she has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science (2023). She has served as an editor for Physics Letters B and now leads PRD.
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Ansar Fayyazuddin, Senior EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Ansar received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Stockholm University. After postdoctoral research at Nordita, the Niels Bohr Institute, Harvard University, and Brandeis University, he joined the faculty at Stockholm University. He then moved to New York and taught at the City University of New York before joining Physical Review D in 2008. |
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Rashmi Ray, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Rashmi received his Ph.D. from the City University of New York, working on the application of field theoretic techniques to planar condensed matter systems. Subsequent to post-doctoral stints at the University of Maryland, the Universitat de Barcelona, and the Universite de Montreal, he joined the APS as an editor for Physical Review Letters in 1999, before moving on to Physical Review D in 2002. In addition to fulfilling his responsibilities as an editor for Physical Review D, Rashmi is a long term visitor at the physics department of the City College of New York, where he maintains active research in theoretical physics. |
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Alin Tirziu, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Alin received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2004. Before joining PRD in 2010, he has held postdoctoral research appointments at the Ohio State University and Purdue University. His research interests include string theory, AdS/CFT duality, gravity, and gauge theories. |
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Robert Wimmer, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Robert received his Ph.D. from the Vienna Technical University in 2003. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Leibniz University Hannover, Stony Brook University, and the ENS Lyon. His research interests are quantum field theory, string theory, monopoles etc. and cosmology. Since 2012 he is an affiliate of the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University. Robert joined PRD in 2013. |
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Philip Chang, Associate EditorUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Philip Chang is Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He received his Ph.D. in physics in 2005 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a former Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and has been awarded the NSF Early Career Award. His major research interests are computational astrophysics with an emphasis on numerical methods as applied to dynamical stellar interactions. |
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Aurélien Hees, Associate EditorObservatoire de Paris, France Aurélien received his Ph.D. from the Université Catholique de Louvain in 2012, working on characterizing observational signatures from modified gravity. After holding three postdoctoral positions at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Rhodes University and the University of California Los Angeles, he was appointed a CNRS research position and joined the SYRTE laboratory from the Paris Observatory in 2018. His research interests include modified gravity, experimental tests of general relativity in the lab, at Solar System scales and around our Galactic Center, gravitational waves, searches for ultralight dark matter and high accurate relativistic modelling of space missions and astrometric observations. |
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Robert D. Pisarski, Associate EditorBrookhaven National Laboratory, USA Rob obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1979. After positions at Yale, Santa Barbara, and Fermilab, he moved to Brookhaven National Lab in 1989, where he is currently a Senior Scientist. He is particularly interested in QCD under extreme conditions of temperature and density. |
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Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Associate EditorUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, USA Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is a Professor and the Vera Rubin Presidential Chair of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). He is a theoretical astrophysicist with interests in a wide variety of problems, including black holes, gravitational wave sources, plasma astrophysics, and galactic chemical evolution. After studying at the University of Cambridge, he was the John Bahcall Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Since joining the UCSC faculty in 2007, Ramirez-Ruiz has won a number of awards for his research, including a Packard Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, the Niels Bohr Professorship, the Edward A. Bouchet Award (APS), and the HEAD Mid-Career Prize (AAS). He is a fellow of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, American Physical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
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Joshua Sayre, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Josh received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008. After graduation he held positions as a post-doctoral researcher, first at the University of Oklahoma and and then, starting in 2012, at the University of Pittsburgh before joining the editorial team of Physical Review D in 2016. His research has covered a number of areas in high energy phenomenology including collider simulations, Higgs physics, neutrino models, grand unified theories, supersymmetry, and other beyond-the-standard-model theories. |
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Panayiotis Tzanavaris, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Panayiotis obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, and has worked in Australia, Greece, and the US. He has expertise on high- and mid-resolution optical spectroscopy, optical, UV, and IR imaging, X-ray spectroscopy and imaging, and high-performance computing simulations. He has investigated protogalactic cosmological clumps, the variation of fundamental constants, compact groups of galaxies, active galactic nuclei, Galactic X-ray binaries, and X-ray luminosity functions of normal galaxies and binary stars in galaxies. |
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Maria Poko, Senior Editorial AssistantAmerican Physical Society, USA Maria started her career with the APS in 1989 as a correspondent of a training manual and went on to be an editorial support coordinator and an editorial assistant. She started working exclusively for PRD and joined the PRD editorial team in 2006. |
Editorial Board
Term ending 31 December 2024
Manuela Campanelli, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Aleksey Cherman, University of Minnesota, USA
James M. Cline, McGill University, Canada
Christine Davies, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Scott A. Hughes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Daniel Kasen, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Samaya M. Nissanke, California Institute of Technology, USA
Term ending 31 December 2025
Martin Bojowald, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Nathaniel Craig, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Eligio Lisi, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy
Elizabeth Winstanley, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Term ending 31 December 2026
Ofer Aharony, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Claude Duhr, University of Bonn, Germany
Gary Horowitz, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Patricia L. McBride, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA
Ruth Durrer, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Robert Wald, University of Chicago, USA
Term ending 31 December 2027
Rong-Gen Cai, Inst. of Theor. Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Diego Garcia Lambas, Instituto de Astronomía Teórica y Experimental, Argentina
Ashoke Sen, International Center for Theoretical Sciences, India