18 June 2025
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Members of Universe

Universe (ISSN: 2218-1997) is pleased to announce the following 30 researchers, who have been added to our group of 2025–2026 Early Career Editorial Board Members. Please join us in congratulating them on joining the Universe community!

Name: Dr. Ana Alonso-Serrano
Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert-Einstein-Institute) Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
Research interests:
high-energy physics; general relativity; quantum field theory; special and general relativity; quantum physics; cosmology; gravitational physics; fundamental physics; quantum cosmology; black holes; wormholes; universe; multiverse; thermodynamics; relativistic quantum information; philosophy of science

Name: Dr. Amirnezam Amiri
Affiliation: Physics Department, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
Research interests:
AGN; gas-phase metallicity; SED and star formation; galactic environments; extraterrestrial artificial intelligence; observational data analysis; computational astronomy

Name: Dr. Alexander Ayriyan
Affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Wroclaw, Max Born Pl. 9, 50-204 Wroclaw, Poland
Research interests: neutron stars; dense nuclear matter; equation of state (EOS); compact stars, Bayesian analysis; relativistic stellar structure

Name: Dr. Francesco Bajardi
Affiliations: 1. Scuola Superiore Meridionale (SSM), Largo S. Marcellino 10, 80138 Napoli, Italy; 2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Napoli, Via Cinthia 9, 80126 Napoli, Italy
Research interests:
classical and quantum cosmology; Noether symmetries; general relativity; modified theories of gravity

Name: Dr. Indranil Banik
Affiliation: Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Dennis Sciama Building, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, UK
Research interests:
cosmology; galactic dynamics; Milgromian dynamics

Name: Dr. Trambak Bhattacharyya
Affiliation: Institute of Physics, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce 25-406, Poland
Research interests:
heavy-ion physics; quark–gluon plasma; Tsallis statistics; socio-physics

Name: Dr. Simone Biondini
Affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstr. 82, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
Research interests: high-energy physics phenomenology; effective field theories; early universe

Name: Dr. Mattia Dalla Brida
Affiliation: Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
Research interests:
lattice QCD; phenomenology of the standard model; quantum field theory

Name: Dr. Luca Buoninfante
Affiliation: NORDITA, Hannes Alfvéns väg 12, 114 19 Stockholm, Sweden
Research interests:
general relativity; quantum gravity; higher-derivative gravity; nonlocal quantum field theory; black holes; gravitational waves

Name: Dr. Xiong-Hui Cao
Affiliation: Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Research interests:
hadron physics; dispersion relations; hadron form factors; chiral effective field theories

Name: Dr. Xiao Yan Chew
Affiliation: School of Science, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang , China
Research interests:
gravitational physics; numerical relativity

Name: Dr. Pedro Cunha
Affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
Research interests: gravity and general relativity; black holes; exotic compact objects; strong gravitational lensing and black hole shadows

Name: Dr. Artur Czerwinski
Affiliation: Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Intypeatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, ul. Grudziadzka 5, 87-100 Torun, Poland
Research interests: quantum optics; entanglement; quantum dynamics; open quantum systems; non-Markovian evolution; quantum state tomography; time-bin encoding; phase retrieval; quantum Hamiltonian tomography; tomography; entanglement measures; quantum measurement; decoherence

Name: Dr. Antonia Frassino
Affiliation:
Departament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica and Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Research interests: black holes; holography; EFT; quantum gravity, QFT in curved spacetime

Name: Dr. Cláudio Gomes
Affiliation:
Centro de Física das Universidades do Minho e do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
Research interests: gravitation; cosmology; alternative theories of gravity

Name: Dr. Rahul Gupta
Affiliation:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Research interests: gamma-ray bursts (GRBs); fast X-ray transients; supernovae

Name: Dr. Szymon Piotr Harabasz
Affiliation:
Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt 64289, Germany
Research interests: heavy-ion collisions; dileptons; statistical hadronization; azimuthal flow; high-density QCD

Name: Dr. Guansheng He
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Physics, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
Research interests: general relativity; gravitational lensing; post-Newtonian dynamics

Name: Dr. Ricardo G. Landim
Affiliation
: Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth Dennis Sciama Building, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, UK
Research interests: cosmology; theoretical physics; dark energy; dark matter; baryogenesis/leptogenesis; extra dimensions; 21 cm hydrogen line; fast radio bursts; radio astronomy

Name: Dr. Zhenyan Lu
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China
Research interests: high-energy physics; axion physics; theta vacuum; chiral perturbation theory; chiral anomaly quark matter

Name: Dr. Raffaella Anna Marino
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Otto-Stern-Weg 1, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
Research interests: astrophysics; formation and evolution of galaxies; intergalactic medium; star formation; instrumentation; imaging; spectroscopy; IFU; big data analytic and visualization; algorithms development; simulations

Name: Dr. Mehrab Momennia
Affiliation:
Instituto de Física y Matemáticas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, México
Research interests: black hole perturbation theory; relativistic astrophysics and accretion disks; thermodynamics of black holes; relativistic kinetic theory on curved spacetime; accretion process into black holes; modified gravity; cosmology

Name: Dr. Alessandro Peca
Affiliations:
1. Eureka Scientific, Oakland, CA 94602-3017, USA; 2. Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Research interests:
active galactic nuclei (AGN); X-ray astronomy; multi-wavelength studies; AGN variability; obscuration processes

Name: Dr. Luciano Petruzziello
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132 I-84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy
Research interests: neutrino physics; quantum field theory in curved spacetime; quantum gravity; general relativity; extended theories of gravity; Casimir effect; quantum information

Name: Dr. Alessia Platania
Affiliation:
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 16, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Research interests: quantum gravity; asymptotic safety; renormalization group; quantum gravity phenomenology; cosmology; black holes

Name: Dr. Venkatessh Ramakrishnan
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Concepcion, Concepcion, Bio Bio 4030000, Chile
Research interests: imaging supermassive black holes; accretion physics of AGNs; gas kinematics and stellar dynamics; multifrequency SED modeling; sparse image processing

Name: Dr. Marco Danilo Claudio Torri
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano e INFN, 20133 Milano, Italy
Research interests: quantum gravity; quantum field theory; theoretical physics and spacetime symmetries (Lorentz and CPT symmetries); neutrino physics; cosmic ray physics

Name: Dr. Andreas Trautner
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, 69029 Heidelberg, Germany
Research interests: CP violation; flavor physics; neutrino interactions; physics beyond the standard model; particle cosmology; strong CP problem; symmetries and outer automorphisms

Name: Dr. Syed Uddin
Affiliations:
1. The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, 813, Santa Barbara Street, Pasadean, CA 91101, USA; 2. Centre for Space Studies, American Public University System, Charles Town, WV, USA
Research interests:
supernova cosmology; large-scale structure; instrumentation

Name: Dr. Wolfgang Wieland
Affiliation:
Institute for Quantum Gravity, Theoretical Physics III, Department of Physics Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstraße 7, 91052 Erlangen, Germany
Research interests: quantum gravity; loop quantum gravity and spinfoam models; spin structure of spacetime; quasi-local observables/quasi-local realisations of the holographic principle

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