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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 18/09/2026

Reviewer of the month, September 2026: Adi Natan is a Principal Investigator at the Stanford PULSE Institute and Staff Scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, where he leads the Non-Periodic Ultrafast X-ray Imaging group.

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 01/09/2026

Reviewer of the month, August 2026: Phuong Mai Dinh is a professor at the Laboratory for Theoretical Physics in Toulouse. After completing a PhD in high-energy nuclear theoretical physics, she joined LPT in 2003. Her research focuses on developments beyond mean-field in cluster physics.

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 28/07/2026

Reviewer of the month, July 2026: Andrea Civilini is a postdoctoral researcher at the NERV Lab, Institut du Cerveau in Paris. His research focuses on complex systems, network science, and applied mathematics, with applications to social and economic dynamics, as well as brain activity and cognition.

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 26/06/2026

Reviewer of the Month, June 2026: Dr. Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci is a theoretical engineer and computational innovator. He is a Chair Professor at the Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence and an adjunct professor at Tsinghua University.

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 31/05/2026

Reviewer of the Month, May 2026: Christopher Arran, a Lecturer in Ultrafast Beams and Phenomena in the Physics Department at Lancaster University, uses simulations to design and interpret experiments at high-power laser facilities, focusing on laser–plasma interactions, heat flow, strong-field QED.

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 28/04/2026

Reviewer of the Month, April 2026: Bianka Kovács is a postdoctoral researcher at the HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research in Budapest. Her research focuses on the geometry of complex networks, and her current work also applies mathematical modeling to questions in prebiotic evolution.

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 20/03/2026

Reviewer of the Month, March 2026: Shiladitya Sengupta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. His research focuses on mechanical response of amorphous solids, physics of glass transition and dynamics of supercooled liquids.

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 27/02/2026

Reviewer of the Month, February 2026: Shinsuke Takasao is an Associate Professor at Musashino Art University, Japan. His research focuses on plasma astrophysics, particularly solar and stellar physics and star and planet formation, using numerical simulations on supercomputers.

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 24/01/2026

Reviewer of the month, December 2025: Chengjie Xia is an Associate Professor in the School of Physics at East China Normal University. His research focuses on investigating granular assemblies using magnetic resonance imaging and employing statistical physics.

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 05/11/2025

Reviewer of the month: Breanna Binder is an Associate Professor at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She is interested in characterizing high-mass X-ray binary populations in nearby galaxies, using them as tracers of star formation and endpoints of massive stellar evolution.

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 05/11/2025

Welcoming Sophie Roman and Brato Chakrabarti to our Editorial Board. They bring expertise in flow microdynamics, geochemistry, biophysics, and soft and active matter.

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 13/10/2025

Dominik Juraschek is our Outstanding Reviewer for October 2025. He is an Assistant Professor of Applied Physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His research lies at the interface of theoretical condensed matter physics and computational materials science.

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 05/09/2025

This month, we welcome five new members to our Editorial Board: Lu Chen, Marlies Goorden, Inhyuk Nam, Jun-yu (Bruce) Yu, Jasminder Sindhu. They bring expertise in very broad and diverse areas, reflecting the growth of the journal.

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 05/09/2025

Outstanding reviewer, August 2025: Rajasekhar Medapalli is an Editor for Advanced Functional Materials at Wiley with a research background in ultrafast and localised light-matter interactions governing the interplay between electrons, spins, and the lattice.

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 01/08/2025

Georgios Koutentakis is our outstanding reviewer of the month. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, where he develops theoretical frameworks for interacting ultracold atoms and molecules.

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 01/07/2025

Lachlan Lindoy is our outstanding reviewer of this month. He is a Senior Scientist at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK. He develops theoretical techniques for the simulation of non-Markovian open quantum system dynamics with applications to condensed phase chemical and materials systems.

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 04/06/2025

Jennifer Sears is our outstanding reviewer of this month. Jennifer is an assistant scientist in the Condensed Matter Physics group at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Her research uses neutron scattering to study unconventional magnetism and charge order. www.nature.com/commsphys/re...

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 13/05/2025

Yuto Ashida is our outstanding reviewer of May. Yuto is an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan. His research interests span various areas of physics, including quantum many-body physics, quantum optics/information, and nonequilibrium open systems. www.nature.com/commsphys/re...

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 08/05/2025

Special relativity made visible! Dominik Hornof and colleagues used femtosecond laser pulses and ultrafast photography, and, by virtually reducing the speed of light, demonstrated the Terrell-Penrose effect. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 07/04/2025

This month we welcome Christian Bick, Mithun Chowdhury and Fan Yang to our board. They bring expertise in network science, soft matter physics, strongly-correlated electronic systems and superconductivity respectively, reflecting the diversity of topics at our journal. www.nature.com/commsphys/ed...

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 01/04/2025

Alexander Guttridge is our outstanding reviewer of April. Alex is a Royal Society University Research fellow at Durham University, UK. His research focuses on controlling ultracold atoms and molecules to realize novel quantum materials and quantum sensors. www.nature.com/commsphys/re...

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 08/03/2025

Improving gender balance in editorial boards: A perspective from the Communications journals series. www.springernature.com/gp/researche...

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 05/03/2025

Ronen Kroeze is our outstanding referee of March. He is a postdoctoral researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. His interests lie in ultracold atomic systems with a focus on quantum simulation of many-body physics. www.nature.com/commsphys/re...

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 23/02/2025

The QIP 2025 conference has started in Raleigh, NC! We are there with our editor Camilla Pellegrini #QIP2025

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 12/02/2025

This week, we are revisiting the Q&As we published as part of the Women in Physics collection in 2024. Celebrating women and girls in science! doi.org/10.1038/s420...

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Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 06/02/2025

Hiroshi Takatsu is our outstanding referee of the month. He is an Associate Professor at Kyoto University, Japan. His research focuses on exotic states in strongly correlated electron systems and frustrated magnetism at the intersection of physics and chemistry. www.nature.com/commsphys/re...

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