American Physical Society, USA

Robert Wimmer is a Senior Associate Editor at Physical Review D. He 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 Physical Review D in 2013. With its foundation in 2025 he became the Chair of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Topical Group.

University 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. He is an Associate Editor for Physical Review D and Consulting Editor for Physical Review Letters. Since 2026 he is the Lead Scientific Advisor for the Astronomy and Astrophysics Topical Group.

Many editors of the participating journals contribute in different ways. However, these are the keye editors and main contact person for the respective journals of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Topical Group:

American Physical Society, USA

Dirk Jan received his Ph.D. in Statistical Physics from Leiden University (the Netherlands). After postdoctoral positions at Simon Fraser University, Cornell, and McGill he joined Physical Review A and Physical Review E in 2002. He has been the Managing Editor of Physical Review E since 2009.

University 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.

University of Maryland, USA

Cecilia Chirenti is an Associate Research Scientist at the Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2007 from the Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, working on linear perturbation theory applied to General Relativity. She was a Humboldt Fellow, a Max Planck Partner Group leader at the Federal University of ABC in Brazil (where she held a faculty position for more than a decade before moving to the University of Maryland in 2020), and a Simons-Emmy Noether Fellow. Her research interests include astrophysical compact objects, tests of General Relativity, gravitational waves and their electromagnetic counterparts.

American Physical Society, USA

Kevin received his Ph.D. at Stony Brook University in 2008. He came to Physical Review Letters in 2013 following postdoctoral research positions at North Carolina State University and Brookhaven National Laboratory. His research interests lie in high energy QCD and the phenomenology of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions.

Université Paris Cité, France

Véronique Van Elewyck is an Associate Professor at the Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie at the Université Paris Cité. She received her Ph.D. in physics from Université Libre de Bruxelles. As an astroparticle physicist with a background in neutrino physics, she has contributed to the development of detectors and methods for multi-messenger astronomy, first with the Pierre Auger Observatory, then with the Mediterranean neutrino telescopes ANTARES and KM3NeT, with an emphasis on exploring the interdisciplinary potential of these detectors. In 2016, Véronique became a Junior Fellow of Institut Universitaire de France; she also serves on the C4 (Astroparticle) Commission of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics.

American Physical Society, USA

Robert received his Ph.D. in theoretical high energy physics at the University of Michigan, and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Canadian National Lab TRIUMF. He joined Physical Review Letters in 1994. Robert was elected an APS Fellow in 2013. You can follow him on X @RobertGaristo.

American Physical Society, USA

Nikhil received his Ph.D. in theoretical high-energy physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. Prior to joining Physical Review Letters in 2022, he held postdoctoral research positions at Florida International University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Jefferson Lab. His research interests concern nonperturbative aspects of the strong QCD interaction.

GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Gabriel received his Ph.D. in physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, in 1995. After post-doctoral research at the California Institute of Technology (USA), Aarhus University (Denmark), and University of Basel (Switzerland), he became ICREA Research Professor in 2002 at the Institute of Space Sciences in Barcelona (Spain). In 2005, he moved to the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and became Professor of Theoretical Nuclear Astrophysics at the Technische Universität Darmstadt in a joint position with GSI in 2011. Since 2018, he is the head of the Theoretical Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics department at GSI. His research interests are related to nuclear astrophysics with focus on explosive environments related to the production of heavy elements by the r-process. He has served as Associate Editor of Physical Review C since 2015. He has been awarded the Gustav-Hertz prize of the German Physical Society in 2008, an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council in 2020, and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Science Foundation in 2022. He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2021.

American Physical Society, USA

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. He joined Physical Review B in 1999 and is also a member of the editorial team of Physical Review C.

American Physical Society, USA

Michael Schirber obtained a Ph.D. in astrophysics from The Ohio State University in 2004. His research focused on quasars and the ultraviolet background. He also received a Master’s in journalism from New York University in 2005. His writing career began with internships at Scientific American, Space.com, and Science. In 2006, he became a freelance science writer based in Lyon, France.

His articles have appeared in various publications including Physics World, LiveScience, and New Scientist. He began writing stories for Physical Review Focus (now part of Physics Magazine) in 2006 and contributing regularly to Physics Magazine in 2010. When not composing or editing stories about physics, he enjoys writing about astrobiology and the origin of life.

University of Palermo, Italy

Eleonora Troja received her Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy in 2009 at the University of Palermo, Italy. After more than a decade at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, she returned to the University of Palermo as a full Professor. She is a recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant supporting her research on cosmic explosions. Her scientific contributions focus on gamma-ray bursts, fast X-ray transients, and the electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational-wave sources, with particular emphasis on neutron star mergers and kilonovae. Her discoveries have been recognized with major honors, including NASA’s Silver Medal in 2017 and Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 2021.

American 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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