Editor-in-Chief

Julia R. Greer
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Julia R. Greer obtained her S.B. in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Advanced Music Performance from MIT in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Stanford, worked at Intel (2000-03) and was a post-doc at PARC (2005-07). Julia joined Caltech in 2007 and currently is a Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics, and Medical Engineering at Caltech, as well as the Fletcher Foundation Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute. Her work was recognized among Top-10 Breakthrough Technologies by MIT’s Technology Review (2015), she was named as one of “100 Most Creative People” by Fast Company, and was selected as a Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum (2014). Greer is also a concert pianist who performs solo recitals and in chamber groups, with notable performances of “Prejudice and Prodigy” with the Caltech Trio (2019), “Nanomechanics Rap” with orchestra MUSE/IQUE (2009), and as a soloist of Brahms Concerto No. 2 with Redwood Symphony (2006).

Research Interests: Creating and characterizing nano- and micro-architected materials with multi-scale microstructural hierarchy using 3D lithography, nanofabrication, and additive manufacturing (AM) techniques; investigation of mechanical, electrochemical, chemo-mechanical, and photonic properties as a function of architecture, constituent materials, and microstructural detail.

Professional Activities and Awards: Greer has won numerous career awards: Kavli (2014), Nano Letters, SES, and TMS (2013); NASA, ASME (2012), Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award (2012), DOE (2011), DARPA (2009), and Technology Review’s TR-35, (2008). She is an active member of scientific community through professional societies (MRS, SES, TMS), having organized multiple symposia, been chosen as Conference Chair (MRS, 2021; GRC 2016), served on the Board of Directors for Society of Engineering Science (SES) and on government agency panels: DOE’s Basic Research Needs workshop on setting Priority Research Directions (2020), National Materials and Manufacturing Board through National Academies (2020), and DoD’s Bush Fellows Research Study Team (2020).

Deputy Editors

Christian Brosseau
Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France

Christian Brosseau received his Ph.D. in physics from the Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, in 1989. After a postdoc fellowship at Harvard University and a research associate position at Université Fourier, he moved to the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France, in 1994 as an associate professor in the Department of Physics. In 2010, he became a distinguished professor in the department, where he remains today.

Research Interests: Magnetism and electromagnetic wave propagation in complex media, plasmonics, image processing (polarization), nanophysics, biological physics, and computational materials physics.

Professional Activities and Awards: Fellow of Optica, Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Fellow of the SPIE, and Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy. Dr. Brosseau has served on the editorial boards of Optics Communications (2005-2008), Nanotechnology (2005-2021), Optics Letters (2005-2010), and the American Journal of Physics (2008-2010). He is the recipient of the 2017, SPIE G. G. Stokes Award. He authored four books: Fundamentals of Polarized Light: A Statistical Optics Approach, (Wiley, New York, 1998); Prospects in Filled Polymers Engineering: Mesostructure, Elasticity Network, and Macroscopic Properties, (Research SignPost, Trivandrum, 2008); Physical Principles of Electro-Mechano-Biology: Multiphysics and Supramolecular Approaches, (Springer, 2023); and Electromagnetic Properties of Heterogeneous Materials: Background and Calculation Methods, (Elsevier, 2025). He also holds two patents.

Peter Hosemann
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

Peter Hosemann studied Material Science at the Montanuniversität Leoben in Austria and earned his Ph.D. in 2008. He Performed his PhD research at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and continued as postdoctoral associate. Hosemann joined the University of California, Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department in 2010. He was department chair from 2017-2022 and was named the College of Engineering E.S. Kuh Chair of Engineering. He holds a joint appointment with Idaho National Laboratory and is a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2017. He was a visiting scientist at Paul Scherrer Institute and currently at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Since 2023 he leads the UC Berkeley Center "Manufacturing 360" and the shared user facility for materials characterization. Hosemann is also a lecturer at the Technical University of Vienna and the Montanuniversität Leoben in Austria.

Research Interests: Materials in extreme environments, radiation effects in materials, corrosion of materials, materials microstructure and property characterization, material synthesis, additive manufacturing, deployment of materials in applied physics applications and novel system concepts.

Professional Activities and Awards: UC Berkeley radiation safety faculty chair, E.S. Kuh Chair of Engineering at UC Berkeley, TMS Brimacomb medal, TMS early career award, TMS hardy award, Acta Mat best reviewer award, JNM reviewer award. 

Laurie E. McNeil
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Laurie McNeil obtained her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois in 1982 and spent two years as an IBM Postdoctoral Fellow at the MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering. She then joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). She is the Bernard Gray Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UNC-CH and chaired the department from 2004-2009. She was also interim chair of the Curriculum in Applied and Materials Sciences from 2007-2008.

Research Interests: Optical spectroscopy of semiconductors and insulators and materials physics of crystalline organic semiconductors for electronic applications.

Professional Activities and Awards: Fellow of the American Physical Society and Chapman Faculty Fellow and Academic Leadership Fellow in the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC-CH. Dr. McNeil has received numerous awards, including the 2025 John David Jackson Excellence in Graduate Physics Education Award and the William F. Little Award for Distinguished Service from UNC-CH. Active within her professional community, she has chaired the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, the APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics, and the APS/AAPT Joint Task Force on Undergraduate Physics Programs (J-TUPP).

Simon R. Phillpot
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

Simon Phillpot received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Oxford University and University of Florida. He was a postdoc and then staff member at Argonne National Laboratory for sixteen years. He joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida in 2003, where he is now a Distinguished Professor.

Research Interests: Atomic resolution simulation; simulation methodologies; phonon-mediated heat transport; defects and microstructure in metals and ceramics; nuclear fuel and nuclear wasteforms; mechanical properties and shock; ferroelectric and dielectric materials.

Professional Activities and Awards: Fellow of the American Physical Society; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow of the Institute of Physics; Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. He has authored more than 350 peer-reviewed publications, of which more than 45 are in AIPP journals. Among these are Nanoscale Thermal Transport and Nanoscale Thermal Transport II, which together have received more than 5700 citations.

Associate Editors

David Aspnes
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC , USA

Thomas E. Beechem III
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

Marcela Bilek
University of Sydney, Australia

Elif Ertekin
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

Kin Chung Fong
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

Rachel S. Goldman
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Axel Hoffmann
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

Pawel Keblinski
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

Jiangyu Li
Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

Wei Lu
Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Shanghai, China

Andreas Mandelis
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

François M. Peeters
University of Antwerp, Belgium

Alain Polian
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Yevgeny Raitses
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA

Jian Shi
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

Lyubov Titova
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA

Paolo Vavassori
CIC nanoGune Consolider, San Sebastian, Spain

Kin Man Yu
National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Previous Editors-in-Chief

2014-2023: André Anders

2000-2014: P. James Viccaro

1990–2000: Stephen J. Rothman

1974–1989: Lester Guttman

1970–1973: Gilbert J. Perlow

1970: Foster F. Rieke

1965–1970: Frank E. Myers

1960–1964: J. H. Crawford, Jr.

1957–1960: James A. Krumhansl

1954–1957: Robert L. Sproull

1937–1954: Elmer Hutchisson

1931–1936: John T. Tate (Physics)