Physical Review B Staff

Peter has worked for the Physical Review since 1969. He was one of the founders of PRB in 1970 and the first and only Managing Editor. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1959 and his Ph.D. (liquid metals) from Imperial College London in 1964. Before joining the APS, he worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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. He grew up in Cheshire and Marlow, England. He joined PRB in 1993.

Matt holds a B.A. from Drew University and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Brandeis University, and completed postdoctoral research at Iowa State University. He grew up in New Jersey. Matt joined PRB in 1999.

Julie received her Ph.D. from the University of Munich, working on high-pressure x-ray diffraction. She was born in Hong Kong, has Korean ancestry, and grew up in England, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles. She began working for PRB in 1999.

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. Brad grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. He joined PRB in 1999.

Susan joined PRB in 1998 after completing her Ph.D. in physics at The University of Western Australia. She worked at the Ridge office for nearly three years before moving back to Western Australia. She currently works remotely from her home in Perth.

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.

Alex received a Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics at the University of Florida in 2002. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Materials Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory and at the Physics Department of the Ohio State University. His research involved a variety of topics in superconductivity, quantum Hall effect, and mesoscopics. Alex grew up in Crete, Greece. He joined PRB in 2007.

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 an Associate Physicist in the Condensed Matter Theory Group at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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.

James is a graduate of Royal Holloway, University of London, from where he holds a B.Sc., a M.Sc., and a Ph.D. His Ph.D. was focused on positron annihilation in solids. Following postdoctoral research, he joined PRB in 2003.

Kirsten grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand and holds a B.Sc. and Ph.D. (physical chemistry) from the University of Canterbury there. Before joining PRB in 2002, she did a M.Sc. in Publishing from Pace University, NY and worked as an editorial assistant for Marcel Dekker. She returned to NZ in 2006 and currently works as a remote editor from her home in Christchurch.

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.

Kelvin is a Professor in Materials Science and the Boeing Chair of Advanced Materials and Director of the Center for Materials Research at Washington State University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah (surface physics). He is currently working on defects in semiconductors and metals and photovoltaic materials, particularly using positrons. He worked at BNL for many years and has been an editor for PRL or PRB since 1984. He works remotely from Washington.

Bill received a B.S. in physics from Caltech in 1964 and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1968. His main research areas have been in optical physics, and he has held editorial positions for Optics Letters and Journal of the Optical Society of America B, for which he was Editor-in-Chief. He joined PRB in 2004 after a long career at the Ford Research Lab and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He works remotely from Santa Barbara.

Mike is a Professor in the Department of Physics of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He specializes in the electronic, magnetic, and structural properties of complex materials on the atomic level, mainly using and developing density-functional theory approaches. Previously, he worked for many years at BNL.