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  • The Managing Board of Papers in Physics expands

    2026-01-09

    With the goal of strengthening Papers in Physics across all fronts: attracting higher-quality submissions, increasing visibility, developing partnerships, and updating editorial processes and policies. The Managing Board of the journal has been renewed and will keep evolving along this year.

    Meet the newly appointed Managing Editors!

    - Carla Hermann Avigliano (Chile)

    Carla is a Chilean physicist specialized in experimental and theoretical Quantum Optics, Quantum state engineering, Nonlinear physics, Squeezed light generation and Quantum Metrology. She is a Professor at the University of Chile in Santiago, as well as a member of the Millennium Institute for Research in Optics (MIRO) and the Optics Group at the same institution.

    - Silvina Limandri (Argentina)

    Silvina is an Independent Researcher at CONICET and Adjunct Professor at FAMAF, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Her main area of expertise is atomic spectroscopy and complementary analytical techniques used in fundamental physics and materials research.

    - Etera Livine (France)

    Etera is a researcher in theoretical and mathematical physics, with a specific focus on gravitational physics, both classical and quantum, and a keen interest in quantum information, working at the Physics Lab of the ENS Lyon in France as a Directeur de Recherche CNRS and team leader of the theoretical physics group, as well as affiliated to the Perimeter Institute in Canada. He is also a founding member and the current Secretary of the International Society for Quantum Gravity.

    - Mildred Quintana Ruiz (Mexico)

    Mildred is a Professor at Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México. She works on surface and supramolecular chemistry, focusing on carbon nanostructures, graphene, fullerene, and nanotubes, as well as the study of self-assembled materials, molecular recognition, and bionanomaterials. Her work also covers the synthesis and structural characterization of nanomaterials, in addition to clean energy development projects.

    - Leticia Ribeiro de Paiva (Brazil)

    Leticia is a Professor at UFSJ-Brazil, where she does research on Statistical and Biological Physics, in particular, complex behavioral patterns in termites. She is also part of the Parent in Science Movement.

    Papers in Physics remains firmly committed to a community-driven, non-profit alternative to for-profit academic publishing.

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  • Francisco de la Cruz (1938 – 2025)

    2025-10-27

    Francisco "Paco" de la Cruz was an Argentine physicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to experimental low-temperature and condensed matter physics. His research focused on the phenomenology of high-temperature superconductors. Widely recognized in the scientific community, he authored more than 150 papers in international journals and delivered over 40 invited lectures around the world. Beyond his scientific achievements, he played a vital role in strengthening Argentine science through his leadership at CNEA, CONICET, SECyT, and various academic institutions. He collaborated extensively with research groups across Latin America, North America, Europe, and Israel, and received numerous honors throughout his career. A Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics, a Foreign Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a member of Argentina’s National Academies of Sciences, Prof. de la Cruz was also a founding member of the advisory board of Papers in Physics. His wisdom, generosity, and guidance will be missed.

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  • Luis Pugnaloni is promoted to Board Editor

    2021-12-27

    After having founded the journal and acted for more than 12 years as a Managing Editor of Papers in Physics, Luis Pugnaloni has decided to step aside (not far) and see the journal he helped build walk by itself.

    The new composition of the Managing Board of the journal is now: Carolina Brito, Sergio Cannas, Ezequiel Ferrero, Jean-Christophe Geminard and Santiago Grigera.

    Luis Pugnaloni will keep participating in Papers in Physics but, from now on, in his new role of Section Editor. As a matter of fact, he is one of the Editors of our recently opened Focus Series on "Challenges in Granular Matter".

    The family of Papers in Physics would like to warmly thank Luis "for all the fish".

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  • Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 for Giorgio Parisi, member of our advisory board

    2021-10-05

    We are honoured to count Giorgio Parisi as one of the valued members of our Advisory Board who has supported this journal from its early beginnings with his input and guidance. Parisi is a broad-ranging physicist, in the manner of Enrico Fermi, whose research encompasses areas such as fundamental particles, condensed matter, statistical physics and disordered materials. In their press release, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences states "Giorgio Parisi discovered hidden patterns in disordered complex materials. His discoveries are among the most important contributions to the theory of complex systems. They make it possible to understand and describe many different and apparently entirely random materials and phenomena, not only in physics but also in other, very different areas, such as mathematics, biology,  neuroscience and machine learning."

    Congratulations Giorgio !

    https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2021/summary/

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  • Miguel Angel Virasoro (1940 - 2021)

    2021-07-24

    With the passing of Miguel Angel Virasoro, aged 81, Papers in Physics has lost one of its valued members of the Advisory Board.  He served as Director of the  Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) from 1995 to 2002.  In 2009 he was awarded the Enrico Fermi prize, by the Italian Physical Society, for "the discovery of an infinite-dimensional algebra of primary importance for the construction of string theories", an algebra that bears his name.  In 2020 he was awarded the Dirac Medal by the ICTP.  Among his notable contributions to theoretical physics it is worth mentioning his work with Giorgio Parisi and Marc Mézard on the nature of the low temperature phase of spin glasses.  Miguel's input and guidance as a member of the Advisory Board of this journal will be thoroughly missed.

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  • Débora Peres Menezes is elected president of the Brazilian Physics Society

    2021-06-21

    Our Editor in Nuclear Physics Prof. Débora Peres Menezes from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina has been elected President of the Brazilian Physics Society (SBF) This is the first time a woman is elected as president of the largest physics society of Brazil, see UFSC news. From Papers in Physics we want to warmly congratulate Prof. Peres Menezes and we look forward to a great chance to strengthen relations between our journal and the brazilian physics community.

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  • Focus Series on Patagonian Solar Eclipse 2020 - call for contributions

    2021-04-29

    On December 14, 2020 a total solar eclipse was visible roughly between 13.00 and 13.30 (local time) in Argentinean and Chilean Patagonia. This provided an extraordinary opportunity to promote Sun-Earth system science and increase public awareness on the main scientific problems and methods in the area. Mainly, this total solar eclipse provided the perfect opportunity to update statistics and do research on experiences taking place specifically in South America and during spring or summer performing truly cross-disciplinary research.

    With this Focus Series on Patagonian Solar Eclipse 2020, we seek original research articles that cover the broad range of events related to the December 2020 total solar eclipse, from the Earth’s surface  through the Earth's upper atmosphere and the solar atmosphere. The issue is co-Guest Edited by Laura Morales and Gabriela Nicora.

    For more information and guidelines, please visit:

    https://www.papersinphysics.org/papersinphysics/FocusSeriesonPatagonianSolarEclipse2020

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  • Neli W. Ashcroft (1938-2021)

    2021-03-18

    Neil W. Ashcroft was a British physicist, best known to anyone in the field of condensed matter for his thorough, clear and rigorous textbook "Solid state physics", written in collaboration with N. David  Mermim.  His research interests included matter at high densities and in reduced dimensionality; superlattice hetero-structures; and metallic hydrogen and its electronically ordered alloys.  His seminal theoretical contributions to high pressure studies  opened the path  to room temperature superconductivity. He will be remembered as someone always open to discussions and to offer help to budding scientists.  Prof. Ashcroft was one of the founding members of the advisory board of Papers in Physics.

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  • Papers in Physics welcomes 7 new Advisory Editors

    2020-11-03

    We are truly honored to announce that a list of outstanding scientists has joined us to counsel about the future of the journal: Marcia C. Barbosa (Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Marcela Carena (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, United States), Irene Giardina (Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Karen Hallberg (Condensed Matter Theory Department, Bariloche Atomic Centre, Argentina), Maria Kafesaki (Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Greece), Srikanth Sastry (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India) and Edgar Dutra Zanotto (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil). They are our new Advisory Editors, who have just joined the board. Welcome to Papers in Physics to all of them and thanks for the commitment !

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  • Our Editor Miguel Angel Virasoro was awarded the Dirac Medal by the ICTP

    2020-08-10

    The International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) has awarded the Dirac Medal to Miguel Angel Virasoro along with André Neveu and Pierre Ramond "for their pioneering contributions to the inception and formulation of string theory which introduced new bosonic and fermionic symmetries into physics". Miguel Angel has been supporting Papers in Physics for over a decade in his role as member of the Advisory Board, an honor for us. We warmly congratulate him for this award!

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  • 10 new editors join our Editorial Board

    2020-07-28

    Nicolás Bernal (Universidad Antonio Nariño, Colombia), Kita Chaves Damasio Macario (Federal Fluminense University, Brazil), Laura Foini (Université Paris-Saclay, France), A. R. Ganesan (Indian Institute of Technology at Madras, India), Hassen Ghalila (University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia), Peter beim Graben (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany), Nadja Kolb Bernardes (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil), Kathryn Huff (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US), Marta Losada (NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Farinaldo Queiroz (International Institute of Physics in Natal, Brazil) have joined our Editorial Board for a 3-year period, starting on August 2020. Welcome to all of them!

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  • 12 new editors join the Papers in Physics' Editorial Board

    2020-01-07

    Roberto Cerbino (Università degli Studi di Milano), Douglas J. Durian (University of Pennsylvania), María Belén Franzoni (Universdad Nacional de Córdoba), Lou Kondic (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Carmen Miguel (Universidad de Barcelona), Débora Peres Menezes (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Salima Rafai (Université Grenoble Alpes), Xavier Roca-Maza (Università degli Studi di Milano), Beatrice Ruta (Université Lyon 1), María José Sánchez (Centro Atómico Bariloche), Simone Silva Alexandre (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), and Brian P. Tighe (Delft University of Technology) have joined our Editorial Board for a 3-year period, starting on January 2020. Welcome to all of them!

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  • Papers in Physics appoints a new Managing Editor

    2019-11-05

    Carolina Brito (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) has been appointed as a new Editor to join Sergio Cannas, Ezequiel Ferrero, Jean-Christophe Géminard, Santiago Grigera and Luis Pugnaloni in running Papers in Physics. Carolina is a computational physicist working in the field of statistical mechanics, properties of amorphous materials and wetting.

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  • System upgrade

    2018-11-06

    During the weekend of November 10th and 11th 2018, Papers in Physics will undergo a major system upgrade. Our current OJS 2.4.x version will be replaced by the latest OJS 3.1.x version. Several changes of the website layout, improoving the journal aesthetics and visibility, will be also implemented.
    Therefore, our webpage will be unreachable from Friday 9th to Monday 12th. We thank you in advance for your understanding.

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  • Papers in Physics appoints new Editor

    2018-07-21
    Ezequiel Ferrero (CONICET / Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina) has been appointed as a new Editor to join Sergio Cannas, Jean-Christophe Géminard, Santiago Grigera and Luis Pugnaloni in running Papers in Physics. Ezequiel specializes in the physics of driven disordered systems, amorphous solids, soft matter, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and critical phenomena. His  interests also include computational techniques in physics; in particular, GPU parallel approaches and machine learning. Read more about Papers in Physics appoints new Editor

  • Papers in Physics has appointed a new Editor

    2017-03-15
    Jean-Christophe Géminard (CNRS / Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France) has been appointed as a new Editor to join Sergio Cannas, Santiago Grigera and Luis Pugnaloni in running Papers in Physics. Jean-Christophe has been part of the Editorial Board of the journal since 2009 and has a strong track record in the physics of complex fluids, biological systems, granular matter, nonlinear dynamics and statistical mechanics. Read more about Papers in Physics has appointed a new Editor

  • Sergio Dain (1970-2016)

    2016-05-30
    Sergio Dain passed away in February 2016, at the early age of 46. He was a full proffesor at the National University of  Córdoba (Argentina) and worked for several  years at the Max-Planck Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert Einstein Institut (AEI). Sergio was an impressive young scientist. His natural kindness, as well as his enthusiasm, passion and commitment towards any knowledge related activity made him unforgettable for anyone fortunate to met him. Sergio was among the first to join the Editorial Board of Papers in Physics and always contributed to our endeavour generously and enthusiastically. Read more about Sergio Dain (1970-2016)

  • Papers in Physics has been awarded the DOAJ Seal

    2015-11-16

    The Directory of Open Access Journals has granted Papers in Physics a distinction Seal. The Seal has been allocated to a handful of journals accepted into DOAJ since 2014. Journals that are awarded the Seal have answered ‘Yes’ to 7 questions that DOAJ has chosen specifically as indicators of an extra high and clear commitment to open access best practices, of extra high levels of commitment to publishing technologies, and the most ‘open’ form of open access.

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  • Leo Kadanoff (1937-2015)

    2015-10-27
    Leo P. Kadanoff passed away on October 26, 2015. In addition to his ground-breaking contributions to statistical physics, recognized by numerous awards such as the National Medal of Science (US),
    the Grande Medaille d'Or of the Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, the Wolf Foundation Prize, the Boltzmann Medal of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and the Centennial Medal of Harvard University, he was an active member of the physics community, having served as president of the American Physical Society.

    Leo was one of the pioneering Advisory Editors of Papers in Physics and enthusiastically contributed to the journal, both as editor and author. Read more about Leo Kadanoff (1937-2015)

  • Reduced publication charges for scientists in Latin America

    2012-06-12

    The Editors of Papers in Physics are pleased to offer a special discount in publication charges to members of the Physical Societies of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Rep., Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay, Venezuela, and to the members of the Central America and Caribbean Physics Society.

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