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Chief Editor: Andrea Taroni
Andrea joined Nature Physics in 2014, having previously worked for Nature Communications and Nature Materials. A graduate of University College London, he completed his PhD in statistical physics. Following a short stint at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France, he undertook postdoctoral work at Uppsala University in Sweden, investigating the dynamics of low-dimensional magnetic systems. Andrea is based in our London office.
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Senior Editor: Abigail Klopper
Abigail joined Nature Physics in 2011, following a postdoctoral career at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany, in which she pursued theoretical research in aspects of soft-matter and biological physics. She obtained her PhD from the University of Western Australia in 2006, investigating dimensional effects in frustrated magnetic materials. Abigail is based in the London office.
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Senior Editor: Nina Meinzer
Nina joined Nature Physics in 2019, from Nature Communications. She obtained her PhD from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where she studied plasmonic metamaterials and their interaction with semiconductor quantum heterostructures. She also carried out postdoctoral work at the University of Exeter, working on hybrid systems that combine plasmonic structures and emitters as well as studying microwave metamaterials. Nina is based in our London office.
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Senior Editor: Elizaveta Dubrovina
Elizaveta joined Nature Physics in 2019, from  Nature Communications. She specialised in the applied mathematics of fluid flows during her studies at the University of Cambridge. She then obtained her PhD from Imperial College London, where she worked on the fluid dynamics of lab-on-chip devices, with a focus on analytical and numerical methods. Elizaveta is based in our London office.
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Associate Editor: Yun Li
Before joining Nature Physics in 2017, Yun was based at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, where she worked on quantum simulation in cold atoms. She obtained her PhD from Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, University of Paris VI in 2010, and has undertaken postdoctoral stints at the University of Trento in Italy and at the National University of Singapore. Yun is based in our Shanghai office.
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Associate Editor: David Abergel
Before joining Nature Physics in 2017, David carried out theoretical research on graphene and other two-dimensional crystals, and quantum topological materials. He completed a Ph.D at Lancaster University in 2007, and then did post-doctoral work at the University of Manitoba (Canada) and the University of Maryland (USA) before undertaking an Assistant Professorship at Nordita, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm, Sweden. David is based in our London office.
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Associate Editor: Stefanie Reichert
Stefanie joined Nature Physics in 2018. She obtained her PhD from the University of Manchester, where she studied transitions between particles and their respective anti-particles at the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. She then joined the LHCb group at the Technical University Dortmund as post-doc, where she worked on several decay channels on the quest for finding new physics. Stefanie is based in our Berlin office.
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