Acknowledgment to Reviewers of Actuators in 2021

Rigorous peer-reviews are the basis of high-quality academic publishing. Thanks to the great efforts of our reviewers, Actuators was able to maintain its standards for the high quality of its published papers. Thanks to the contribution of our reviewers, in 2021, the median time to first decision was 17 days and the median time to publication was 41 days. The editors would like to extend their gratitude and recognition to the following reviewers for their precious time and dedication, regardless of whether the papers they reviewed were finally published:

Abdelkrem Eltaggaz	Jiang Guo
Abdon Pena-Francesch	Jie Deng
Adnan Ghaffar	Jihyuk Park
Adrian Filipescu	Jin Gong
Adrian Gligor	Jin Ning
Afaque Manzoor	Jinbo Wu
Agustín L. Herrera-May	Jinglun Feng
Akio Namiki	Jinkui Chu
Alaa Al-Ibadi	Jinlian Hu
Alain Vande Wouwer	Jinzhi Wu
Alan Kubrusly	Joanna Korzekwa
Alan M. Wemyss	Joanna Zietkiewicz
Alessandra Vitanza	João Falcão Carneiro
Alessandro Ridolfi	João Fradinho Oliveira
Alexander Hošovský	Jong-Chan Kim
Alexander Smirnov	Jongho Lee
Alexandru Martian	Jong-Suk Ro
Alexandru Onea	Jongwon Choi
Ali Zolfagharian	Jorge Ferreira
Almeida Anibal De	Jorge Feuchtwanger
Álvaro Gutiérrez	Jorge Luis Parrondo-Gayo
Amelie Hagelauer	Jose De Jesus Rubio
Amir Haider Malik	José Gonçalves
Amir M. Anvar	Jose González
Amir Mohajeri	Jose Luis Sanchez-Rojas
Amr Adly	José Rafael García-Sánchez
Anand Kumar Mishra	Josip Brnić
Anargyros Karakalas	Józef Drewniak
Anatoly N. Ladygin	Jozef Svetlík
Anca Maxim	Jozsef Sarosi
Andrea I. Deaconescu	Juan P. Amezquita-Sanchez
Andrei Andras	Jun Huang
Andrei Olaru	Jung Woo Sohn
Andrew Gryguć	Jürgen Weber
Andryushin Konstantin Petrovich	Juvenal Rodríguez-Reséndiz
Andrzej Koszewnik	K. Ellermann
Angelo Accetta	K. P. Jayachandran
Anh-Tu Nguyen	Kai Litzius
Anna Borucka	Kai Zhou
Antonio Concilio	Kamran Iqbal
Antonio Giallanza	Karel Hruska
Antonio Jesús Yuste Delgado	Karla Merazzo
Antonio Pérez-González	Karol Kyslan
Arash M. Dizqah	Katarzyna Hojan
Arkadiusz Mystkowski	Katsushi Furutani
Arnaldo Leal-Junior	Kazem Ghabraie
Arvydas Palevicius	Ke Shao
Asanthi Jinasena	Keishi Naito
Ashiqur Rahaman	Ken Sasaki
Asif Khan	Keun-Young Yoon
Athanasios Chasalevris	Ki-Chan Kim
Aurelio Melo	Kodnyanko Vladimir
Aykut Tamer	Koichi Koganezawa
Azar Maalouf	Kosmanis Theodoros
Azeddine Houari	Kristin Payrebrune
Barbara Zardin	Krzysztof Okarma
Basaran Bahadir Kocer	Krzysztof Rogowski
Basuraj Bhowmik	Kumar Prashant
Ben Bin Xu	Kun Jia
Benjamin Evans	Kyung-Hoon Cho
Benjie Tang	Laszlo Barna Iantovics
Bernhard Penzlin	Lauren Garten
Boyuan Li	Laurent Gallimard
Bruno Brunone	Laurentiu Milici
Bülent Delibas	LaVern Starman
Calin Ciufudean	Leire Godino
Calin Rusu	Leonardo Acho Zuppa
Capace Alessia	Leonardo Riccardi
Carl Strathearn	Leszek Ambroziak
Carlo Ferraresi	Leung Franco King-Chi
Carlos A. Cifuentes	Levon Gevorkov
Carlos Roberto Minussi	Lianjun Wu
Carlos Rubio-Sierra	Lin Zhang
Carlos Sánchez-López	Liselott Ericson
Carlos-Alberto Cruz-Villar	Litong Lyu
Catalin Alexandru	Liu Wang
Catalin Arghir	Liu Yang
Catalin Dumitrescu	Liudmila Makarova
Cepreй Ильич Konovalov	Logan T. Trujillo
Chang-Sei Kim	Lorena Pardo
Chan-Jung Kim	Luca Fredianelli
Chao-Chung Peng	Luca Pugi
Chengli Song	Lucian Pislaru-Danescu
Chengqing Liu	Lucjan Kozielski
Chengyi Xu	Luigi Fortuna
Chi Hou Lei	Luigi Iannelli
Chien-Sheng Liu	Luigi Manfredi
Chikit Au	Luis Carlos Sandoval-Herazo
Chiu-Keng Lai	Luis Ignacio Lopera González
Chongjing Cao	Luiz Gonçalves
Choon-man Lee	Łukasz Knypiński
Christian Zehetner	Łukasz Sienkiewicz
Christian-Alexander Bunge	Luke Beardslee
Christophe Aubrun	Lyuba Alboul
Christopher Baer	Mădălina Dumitriu
Chuanqi Tan	Magd Abdel Wahab
Chun Sing Lai	Makiko Kobayashi
Chun-Liang Lin	Manuel Beschi
Chun-Liang Yeh	Manuel Braz César
Chunsheng Wen	Manuel Moreno
Chuong Ngo	Manuel Pineda-Sanchez
Ciprian Lapusan	Manuel R. Arahal
Ciprian Lupu	Marc Desmulliez
Claudio Rossi	Marco Righi
Constantin Volosencu	Marco Silvestri
Constantine Kotropoulos	Marcus Varanis
Cosimo Gentile	Marek Stulrajter
Costantino Balestra	Margarita Ruiz-Altisent
Daisuke Matsuura	Marián Kučera
Daiva Makutėnienė	Marina Indri
Damiano Padovani	Marina Piscopo
Damien Leduc	Marinko Barukčić
Damir Vrančić	Marius Minea
Dan Selisteanu	Mariya Aleksandrova
Daniela Chrenko	Marjan Mernik
Daniele Cafolla	Martin Čech
Daniele Desideri	Martin Marie Hubert Choux
Danil Ivanov	Mary Kasarda
Dan-Marius Dobrea	Masaki Omiya
Dariusz Janiszewski	Masashi Sekine
Datong Liu	Masoud Hemmatian
David McCoul	Massimo Sorli
David Ruiz	Mateusz Dybkowski
David Scaradozzi	Mathias Metzler
Dein Shaw	Matteo Bottin
De-jun Li	Matteo Verotti
Denis V. Makarov	Max Marian
Dhiraj P. Murale	Mayukh Bhattacharyya
Di Sun	Mehdi Hosseinzadeh
Dirk Romeis	Mengchu Zhou
Djordje Cantrak	Merlin Simo Tagne
Dmitry Borin	Mesut Yurukcu
Dmitry Filippov	Miao Li
Domenico Bianchi	Michael R. Koblischka
Domenico Pascarella	Michael Wehner
Dong Jiang	Michail J. Beliatis
Donghoon Kim	Michał Bartyś
Dong-Yeon Lee	Michal Jasinski
Doo-Hyun Choi	Michał Makowski
Dorota Stachowiak	Michal Puskar
Doru-Laurean Baldean	Michal Špiláček
Dragan Prsic	Mi-Ching Tsai
Duc-Duy Ho	Miguel Díaz-Rodríguez
Dušan Koniar	Mihail Ipatov
Dušan Krokavec	Mihăiţă Horodincă
Edevar Luvizotto, Jr.	Mika Salmi
Edgar Sokolovskij	Mike Tebyetekerwa
Edoardo Sinibaldi	Mikhail Belogolovskii
Eduardo M. G. Rodrigues	Mikko Tuohiniemi
Edwin En-Te Hwu	Milan Shrestha
Eihab M. Abdel-Rahman	Mingyang Lu
Eilon Faran	Minmin Zhu
Ekim Yurtsever	Mircea Dulău
Elmar Woschke	Mircea Hulea
Emanuele Grasso	Mircea Ivanescu
Emir A. Vela	Mircea-Bogdan Radac
Erik Prada	Mobayen Saleh
Erina Baynojir Joyee	Mohamad Alzayed
Esteban Codina	Mohamed Abdelrahem
Eva H. Dulf	Mohamed Trabia
Ewa Pawluszewicz	Mohammad Yaghoub Abdollahzadeh Jamalabadi
Fabio D’Andreagiovanni	Mohammed Chadli
Fabrizio Piergentili	Mojtaba Khanesar
Fei Li	Monica Tiboni
Felix Weber	Moon K. Kwak
Fernando Nuño	Mostafa Safdari Shadloo
Fernando Serrano	Mourad Kchaou
Firoz Babu Kadumudi	Muhammad Aziz
Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu	Nadir Kapetanović
Florin Jurca	Narayana Raju
Florin Mariasiu	Natalia Levashova
Flur R. Ismagilov	Nerija Zurauskiene
Francesco Cannarile	Ngoc San Ha
Francesco Durante	Nicolas Galopin
Francisco Alonso	Nikita Gabdullin
Francisco Beltran-Carbajal	Niko Nevaranta
Francisco Cruz	Nikola Lopac
Francisco J. Medellín-Rodríguez	Nikolaos Nikitas
Francisco Ureña	Norihiro Kamamichi
Francisco-Javier Sánchez-Romero	Nuggehalli M. Ravindra
Frank P. Missell	Octavian Mădălin Bunoiu
Frederic Melin	Octavian Narcis Ionescu
Galina V. Kurlyandskaya	Octavio Gutierrez Frias
Ganesh Shimoga	Oleksandr Dobzhanskyi
Gary M. Bone	Oscar Montoya
George Andrikopoulos	Oswaldo Horikawa
George Stiubianu	Oswaldo Lopez-Santos
Georgios Mavropoulos	Pablo Álvarez-Alonso
Georgios Tzounas	Pablo Rodríguez Luque
Ghulam Dastgeer	Pankaj Kumar Jha
Ghulam Hussain	Paolo Mercorelli
Giacomo Moretti	Paolo Paoletti
Gianluca Percoco	Paolo Tripicchio
Gianluca Rizzello	Pavel Karlovsky
Gianpaolo Palma	Pavel Polach
Gigliola Vaglini	Pawel Drozdziel
Giorgio Sonnino	Paweł Dymora
Giovanni Boschetti	Paweł Krzaczek
Girolamo Costanza	Pawel Zylka
Gisela Pujol Vazquez	Pedro Cruz
Giulia Scalet	Peng Hang
Giuseppe Carbone	Peng Hu
Giuseppina Uva	Peng Shi
Gleifer Vaz Alves	Petr Kacor
Goran Cirovic	Petra Amparo López Jiménez
Goran Gregov	Philip Buskohl
Gorka Urbikain Pelayo	Pietro Bilancia
Grzegorz Lesiuk	Piotr Gazda
Grzegorz Mieczkowski	Praneel Chand
GS Sidharth	Proloy Taran Das
Guangjun Liu	Pu Xie
Guido Belforte	Puren Ouyang
Guiling Yang	Qiquan Quan
Guillermo Valencia-Palomo	Radek Matušů
Guoniu Zhu	Rafael Vargas-Bernal
Ha Duong Ngo	Rafał Michalczyk
Haijun Peng	Ralf Stetter
Haiyang Hu	Raul Fizesan
Hakki Erhan Sevil	Redmond R. Shamshiri
Hamed Habibi	Renato Brancati
Hamid Beidokhti	Renato Galluzzi
Hamidreza Hoshyarmanesh	Ricardo Ugliara Mendes
Han Gardeniers	Richard Kotter
Hao Yan	Rimvydas Gaidys
Hareesh Godaba	Rituraj Rituraj
Harik El Houssein Chouaib	Robert Haber
Harshad Mishra	Robert Horvath
Hector Gutierrez	Robert Polasik
Heinrich Ruser	Robert Vrabel
Hichem Abdelmoula	Robert Weidner
Higinio Rubio Alonso	Roberto Galatolo
Hiroki Ishizuka	Rocco Antonio Romeo
Hiroki Shigemune	Rogelio Bustamante-Bello
Hojong Choi	Rohola Rahnavard
Hongliang Ren	Ronald M. Barrett
Hongqing Lv	Rostislav Huzlik
Hongtian Chen	Rubén Carlos Acevedo
Hsin-Jang Shieh	Rudolf Janos
Hugo Almeida Ferreira	Rustam Mullyadzhanov
Hugo Costelha	Ryszard Dindorf
Hugo Policarpo	Saleh Mobayen
Huijuan Liu	Salvatore Ameduri
Huiyuan Li	Sanghyun Kim
Hun-Chul Seo	Saoni Banerji
Hyun Kim	Sciarra Francesco Marotti De
Iacopo Tamellin	Selenia Ghio
Ignacijo Biluš	Seok-Kyoon Kim
Ignazio Dimino	Seong Han Kim
Igor Korobiichuk	Seong-Ik Han
Ilia V. Uvarov	Sergey N. Shevtsov
Ille C. Gebeshuber	Sergio A. David
Indrek Must	Seung-bok Choi
Inrak Choi	Sevki Cesmeci
Ioan Nascu	Seyed Ali Ghahari
Ioana Demetrescu	Seyedfakhreddin Nabavi
Ioan-Doré Landau	Shafiqul Islam
Ioan-Dragos Deaconu	Shieh-Kung Huang
Ioannis Kostavelis	Shigeru Ikeo
Ion-Cornel Mituletu	Shih-Jui Chen
Ionel-Alexandru Gal	Shiuhchuan Her
Ionica Oncioiu	Shunsuke Nansai
Irene Fassi	Sigitas Kilikevičius
Ivan Khmelnitskiy	Silu Chen
Ivan Lorencin	Simona Fialová
Ivo Boblan	Simone Quondam Antonio
Ivona Brajević	Slawomir Wiak
Jaehwan Kim	Sung Hwan Hong
Jaime Rodríguez	Tadahiko Shinshi
Jakub Bernat	Tamas Haidegger
Jakub Haberko	Thanh-Canh Huynh
Jakub Takosoglu	Tobias Hemsel
Ján Drgoňa	Tomas Kosan
Ján Kaňuch	Tomas Melin
Jarosław Konieczny	Tuan Anh Nguyen
Jasmin Jelovica	Umer Huzaifa
Javier Fernando Jiménez-Alonso	Vedova Matteo Davide Lorenzo Dalla
Javier Lopez	Vigouroux Nadine
Jean-Charles Mare	Vlasoula Bekiari
Jelle Van Loon	Xianjian Jin
Jérôme Coste	Xiaolong Lu
Jérôme De Miras	Yasuharu Koike
Jerzy Kasprzyk	Yingxiang Liu
Jerzy Rosłon	Yizhi Liu
Jiachun Lin	Yuichi Saito
Jiahao Chen	Yuri B. Shtessel
Jiajie Kang	Yuri Fetisov
Jianbin Liu	Yury Rafailovich Nikiti