Announcement: Physics of Plasmas Early Career Collection 2023 Free

The Editors and the Members of the Editorial Board of Physics of Plasmas are proud to introduce the 2023 Early Career Collection. This collection is the second highlighting many of the outstanding papers authored by the next generation of plasma physicists. Each year since 2022, top papers from all areas of plasma physics research, which were authored by early career researchers, are selected by the Editorial Board for recognition and inclusion in the annual Early Career Collection. To be eligible, the first author must be within five years of their Ph.D. defense date (not including career breaks, such as family or medical leave) upon the time of the manuscript submission. Student authors may be included, and eligible authors indicate their willingness to be considered for the annual Special Collection during the submission process.

The 2023 Early Career Collection includes 30 authors and their papers published last year. These authors published in all ten of the topical sections of Physics of Plasmas: Basic Plasma Phenomena, Waves, Instabilities (seven papers); Nonlinear Phenomena, Turbulence, Transport (three papers); Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Heating, Confinement (five papers); Inertially Confined Plasmas, Dense Plasmas, Equations of State (six papers); Heliospheric and Astrophysical Plasmas (one paper); Plasma-Based Accelerators, Beams, Radiation Generation (three papers); Radiation: Emission, Absorption, Transport (one paper); Low-Temperature Plasmas, Plasma Applications, Plasma Sources, Sheaths (four papers); Dusty Plasmas (four papers); and Numerical Methods, Verification and Validation in Plasma Physics (one paper). The early career papers include ten Featured articles, 11 Editor's Picks, and the authors are located in ten countries: China, France, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Also, this past year, Ian Ochs was the recipient of the 2023 Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award,¹ and three of the 2023 Early Career authors presented their research during a Features in Plasma Physics Webinar:² Louis Jose, Sven Korving, and Stefano Merlini. As a first for 2023, four Early Career authors published multiple articles, and these articles are included in the Special Collection in recognition of their achievements.

Please join us in congratulating the following early career authors: Pedro Molina Cabrera [Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland],³ Shihui Cao (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester, New York),⁴ Alison Christopherson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California),⁵ Alexander Creely (Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Devens, Massachusetts),⁶ Michael Ehret (CLPU, Villamayor, Spain),⁷ Thomas Hentschel (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York),⁸ Judith van Huijstee (Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands),⁹ Ben Israeli (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey),¹⁰ Louis Jose (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan),¹¹ Alan Kaptanoglu (University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland),¹² Sven Korving (Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands),¹³ Kai Li (Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing. China),¹⁴ Kyungtak Lim [École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland],¹⁵ Stephen Majeski (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey),¹⁶ Stefano Merlini (Imperial College, London, United Kingdom),¹⁷ Nils Müller (University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany),¹⁸ Nakul Nuwal (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois),^19,20 Ian Ochs (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey),^21,22 Christoph Pitzal (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany),²³ Dhrumir Patel (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester, New York),²⁴ James Plank (University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom),²⁵ Jean Porto (Université Paris Saclay, Palaiseau, France),²⁶ Brandon Russell (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan),²⁷ Mikhail Serebryakov (Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia),²⁸ Swarnima Singh (Institute For Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India),^29,30 Haomin Sun [École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland],³¹ Livio Verra (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland),³² Willca Villafana (CERFACS, Toulouse, France),³³ Jeffrey Woolstrum (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico),³⁴ and Yanzeng Zhang (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico).^35–37