Award Winner List in Physical Sciences

Winning Papers of Best Paper Awards:

Entropy:

• “Thermodynamics in Ecology—An Introductory Review”
  by Søren Nors Nielsen, Felix Müller, Joao Carlos Marques, Simone Bastianoni and Sven Erik Jørgensen
  Entropy 2020, 22(8), 820; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22080820

• “The Role of Entropy in the Development of Economics”
  by Aleksander Jakimowicz
  Entropy 2020, 22(4), 452; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22040452

• “Large Deviations for Continuous Time Random Walks”
  by Wanli Wang, Eli Barkai and Stanislav Burov
  Entropy 2020, 22(6), 697; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22060697

• “Thermodynamics at Very Long Time and Space Scales”
  by Bjarne Andresen and Christopher Essex
  Entropy 2020, 22(10), 1090; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22101090

• “Geometric Optimisation of Quantum Thermodynamic Processes”
  by Paolo Abiuso, Harry J. D. Miller, Martí Perarnau-Llobet and Matteo Scandi
  Entropy 2020, 22(10), 1076; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22101076

Galaxies:

• “The Hunt for Environmental Noise in Virgo during the Third Observing Run”
  by Maria Concetta Tringali, Irene Fiori, Federico Paoletti, Kamiel Janssens, Christos Karathanasis, Alexis Menéndez-Vázquez, Alba Romero-Rodríguez, Ryosuke Sugimoto, Tatsuki Washimi, Valerio Boschi, Antonino Chiummo, Marek Cieślar, Rosario De Rosa, Camilla De Rossi, Francesco Di Renzo, Ilaria Nardecchia, Antonio Pasqualetti, Antonio Pasqualetti, Barbara Patricelli, Paolo Ruggi and Neha Singh
  Galaxies 2020, 8(4), 82; https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies8040082

• “Signatures of Lorentz Violation in Continuous Gravitational-Wave Spectra of Ellipsoidal Neutron Stars”
  by Rui Xu, Yong Gao and Lijing Shao
  Galaxies 2021, 9(1), 12; https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies9010012

• “Promise of Persistent Multi-Messenger Astronomy with the Blazar OJ 287”
  by Mauri J. Valtonen, Lankeswar Dey, Achamveedu Gopakumar, Staszek Zola, S. Komossa, Tapio Pursimo, Jose L. Gomez, Rene Hudec, Helen Jermak and Andrei V. Berdyugin
  Galaxies 2022, 10(1), 1; https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies10010001

• “Two Classes of Gamma-ray Bursts Distinguished within the First Second of Their Prompt Emission”
  by Lána Salmon, Lorraine Hanlon and Antonio Martin-Carrillo
  Galaxies 2022, 10(4), 78; https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies10040078

• “Black Holes and Other Clues to the Quantum Structure of Gravity”
  by Steven B. Giddings
  Galaxies 2021, 9(1), 16; https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies9010016

Universe:

• “The Montevideo Interpretation: How the Inclusion of a Quantum Gravitational Notion of Time Solves the Measurement Problem”
  by Rodolfo Gambini and Jorge Pullin
  Universe 2020, 6(12), 236; https://doi.org/10.3390/universe6120236

• “Closed Timelike Curves, Singularities and Causality: A Survey from Gödel to Chronological Protection”
  by Jean-Pierre Luminet
  Universe 2021, 7(1), 12; https://doi.org/10.3390/universe7010012

Winners of Outstanding Reviewer Awards:

Entropy:

• Alexander Zlotnik, Higher School of Economics University, Russia
• Jim W. Kay, University of Glasgow, UK
• Irina Basieva, Linnaeus University, Sweden
• Sergio Luiz E. F. da Silva, ¹Politecnico di Torino, Italy; ²Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
• Michael Evans, University of Toronto, Canada

Photonics:

• Giuseppe Brunetti, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
• Igor Buzalewicz, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland

Universe:

• Øyvind Grøn, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
• Vittorio De Falco, Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Italy

Winners of Young Investigator Awards:

Entropy:

• Xiao Yuan, Peking University, China

Photonics:

• Chao Zuo, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

Winners of Best Ph.D. Thesis Awards:

Electronics:

• “An Innovative Data-Driven Reliability Life Cycle for Complex Systems”
  by Gabriele Patrizi, University of Florence, Italy

Particles:

• “Probing Physics beyond the Standard Model with Heavy Hadron Decays”
  by Francesco Loparco, The University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy