Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Entropy 2023 Best Paper Award” for articles published in Entropy from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021. One review and four research articles will receive the award. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Kevin H. Knuth, and the winners will be announced in March 2023.

Eligibility for the award:
– Papers published in Entropy from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the Award Committee according to the following criteria (data source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)):
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citation and download rates in 2022.

Prizes:
– One review award: 500 CHF and a chance to publish a free paper in Entropy in 2023;
– Four research articles award: 500 CHF for each article and a chance to publish a free paper in Entropy in 2023;
– Each winner will also receive a certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in March 2023.

Dear Colleagues,

In recognition of our reviewers, who so generously dedicate their time to reviewing submissions to Entropy, we are pleased to announce, on behalf of our Editor-in-Chief Prof. Kevin H. Knuth, an award for the reviewers who have demonstrated the utmost dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in their work.

What are the prerequisites for eligibility for this award?
All of the reviewers for Entropy in 2022 will be considered.

Criteria:
– Number of review reports (only first review reports will be considered);
– Review quality based on the rating given in SuSy;
– Efficiency in the review process.

What will the winners receive?
The five winners this year will each receive the following:
– CHF 500;
– A 50% discount on the APC for one paper to be published in Entropy in 2023;
– A certificate.

When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced in February 2023 on the journal website.

How can I meet the eligibility requirements?
If you have not yet reviewed papers for Entropy, but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Entropy is now inviting nominations for the Entropy 2022 Young Investigator Award. This prize will be given to one young investigator in recognition of their excellence in the field of entropy and information theory. All nominations will be assessed by an Award Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth.

The Prize:
– CHF 2000;
– Option to publish one paper free of charge in Entropy after peer review before the end of December 2023;
– A certificate.

Eligibility and Requirements:
– Must have a PhD degree;
– Must be below 40 years of age by 31 December 2022;
– Must have produced ground-breaking research and made a significant contribution to the advancement of entropy and information theory;
– Must be nominated by senior scientists.

List of Documents for Nomination:
– Detailed curriculum vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants;
– Birth certificate or other proof of age;
– Scanned copy of doctorate certificate;
– Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists.

Schedule
Open for nominations: 26 January 2022.
Nomination deadline: 28 September 2022.
Winner announcement: 23 November 2022.

How to submit nominations?
The nominations must be submitted online.

Dear colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Entropy, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Entropy 2022 Best Paper Award.

The winners are:
One Review Article:
“Thermodynamics in Ecology—An Introductory Review”
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

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

“Large Deviations for Continuous Time Random Walks”
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”
Bjarne Andresen and Christopher Essex
Entropy 2020, 22(10), 1090; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22101090

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

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 500 and the opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Entropy in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the research groups of the above papers for their contributions to Entropy and the Award Committee for their efforts in the evaluation process for these awards.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth, Entropy

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Entropy 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Entropy Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to Entropy. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Jim W. Kay
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.
Research Interests: probability; mathematical statistics; statistical inference and modeling; computational statistical inference; Bayesian modeling; discrete information theory; partial information decomposition; machine learning.

Dr. Christophe Chesneau
Department of Mathematics, University of Caen, 14000 Caen, France.
Research Interests: mathematical statistics; statistical analysis; statistical inference; regression analysis; linear regression; mathematical modeling; general mathematics.

Dr. Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Puebla 72840, México.
Research Interests: signals; systems; optimization; neural networks; chaos; electronics.

Prof. Dr. Dennis Dieks
Freudenthal Instituut History and Philosophy of Science, Utrecht University, 3584 CC Utrecht, Netherlands.
Research Interests: conceptual/philosophical foundations of quantum theory; space and time; philosophy of science.

Dr. Claudio Cremaschini
Research Center for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Institute of Physics, Silesian University in Opava, Bezrucovo nám.13, CZ-74601 Opava, Czech Republic.
Research Interests: plasma physics; kinetic theory; statistical physics; general relativity; quantum gravity; variational principles; quantum mechanics.

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Entropy, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Entropy 2021 Best Paper Awards.

The winners are:

One Review Article:

“Classical (Local and Contextual) Probability Model for Bohm–Bell Type Experiments: No-Signaling as Independence of Random Variables”
by Andrei Khrennikov and Alexander Alodjants
Entropy 2019, 21(2), 157; https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/2/157

Three Research Articles:

“Nonlinear Information Bottleneck”
By Artemy Kolchinsky, Brendan D. Tracey and David H. Wolpert
Entropy 2019, 21(12), 1181; https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/12/1181

“Dynamic Maximum Entropy Reduction”
By Václav Klika, Michal Pavelka, Petr Vágner and Miroslav Grmela
Entropy 2019, 21(7), 715; https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/7/715

“Topological Information Data Analysis”
By Pierre Baudot, Monica Tapia, Daniel Bennequin and Jean-Marc Goaillard
Entropy 2019, 21(9), 869; https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/9/869

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Entropy in 2021.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Entropy, and to thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with these awards.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth, Entropy

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Entropy 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Awards. The Entropy Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Entropy. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Domenico Ciuonzo
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Research Interests: internet of things; data fusion; decision fusion; sensor fusion; distributed detection; wireless sensor networks; massive MIMO; time reversal; imaging; adaptive detection; radar; network traffic classification; machine learning; deep learning

Dr. Soheil Keshmiri
The Thomas N. Sato BioMEC-X Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Kyoto, Japan
Research Interests: cognitive computing; functional connectivity; brain–machine interfacing; human–robot interaction; information theory; EEG

Dr. Chih-Yuan Tseng
Computational group, Sinoveda Canda Inc, Edmonton, Canada
Research Interests: statistical physics; information theory; computational biophysics; bioinformatics; pharmacometrics

Prof. Dr. Dragana Bajic
Faculty of Technical Sciences, Department of Communications and Signal Processing, University of Novi Sad, Belgrade, Serbia
Research Interests: sequences; synchronization; entropy; cardiovascular time series; dependency structures

Dr. Victor Hugo Rangel-Hernandez
Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Guanajuato, Salamanca, Mexico
Research Interests: thermoeconomics; exergy; entropy; solid oxide fuel cells; acoustic emission approach; hydrogen; fracture of glass ceramic sealants; solar and wind energy

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief, Entropy

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Entropy 2020 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Armin Tavakoli.

Armin Tavakoli’s path as a researcher began at age 17 in Stockholm University (Sweden) and continued with traineeships at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (Spain) and the University of Gdansk (Poland). He obtained his PhD in 2020 from the University of Geneva (Switzerland). It received the physics section’s prize for best thesis. This was followed by a postdoctoral position at IQOQI Vienna where he is presently active. His research interests are quantum information theory, the foundations of quantum physics, and quantum thermodynamics. Currently, his work is focused on nonclassical features in quantum communications and nonlocality in quantum networks. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Armin Tavakoli for his outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, Dr. Armin Tavakoli will receive an honorarium of 2000 CHF and an offer to publish a paper free of charge in 2021 in Entropy after peer review.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the abundant excellent nominations.

Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth, on behalf of the Entropy 2020 Young Investigator Evaluation Committee.

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Entropy, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Entropy 2020–2021 Travel Award in Quantum Information.

The award has been granted to Mr. Igor A. Khramtsov, a PhD student at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, whose research interest involves color centers in diamond, silicon carbide, and other wide-bandgap semiconductors; color center electroluminescence; single-photon sources and detectors; nanophotonics; optical interconnects; integrated germanium photodetectors; and silicon nanophotonics. He is planning to present his work “Towards efficient electrical triggering of single-photon emission from SiV centers in diamond” at SPIE Photonics West (6–11 March 2021 San Francisco, CA, USA). The award consists of 800 Swiss francs, to be used to attend this conference.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winner on his accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief, Entropy

Due to the influence of COVID-19, there was a limited number of applicants in the "Entropy 2020–2021 Travel Award in Entropy and Biology". We are sorry to inform you that we have had to cancel this award. We warmly welcome you to participate in our next Travel Award.

For more information about Entropy awards, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/awards.

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Entropy, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Entropy 2020–2021 Travel Award in Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes.

The award has been granted to Mr. Noel Castro Segura, a PhD student at University of Southampton. The goal of his research is to shed light on some fundamental problems related to accretion physics and binary evolution. In particular, his main focus is on how outflows affect these systems. He is planning to present his works “Accretion disk winds in black-hole LMXRB: The missing link” at the Vasto Accretion Meeting (30 May–5 June 2021, Vasto, Italy). The award consists of 800 Swiss francs, to be used to attend this conference.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winner on his accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief, Entropy

The Entropy Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to Entropy. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

It is our pleasure to announce that the following referees have been selected to receive the “Entropy 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of their reviews in 2019 (in alphabetical order by surname):

Dragana Bajic
University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Javier E. Contreras-Reyes
University of the Bío Bío, Chile

Daniel-Ioan Curiac
Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania

Soheil Keshmiri
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Japan

Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Mexico

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief of Entropy
University at Albany, USA

The editorial team would like to congratulate the winners of the 2019 Entropy Best Paper Award. The winner nominations were made by a selection committee, which was chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth, and supported by thirteen Editorial Board Members. The three top-voted papers, in no particular order, have won the 2019 Entropy Best Paper Award:

Levitated Nanoparticles for Microscopic Thermodynamics—A Review
Jan Gieseler and James Millen
Entropy 2018, 20(5), 326; https://doi.org/10.3390/e20050326

Transductive Feature Selection Using Clustering-Based Sample Entropy for Temperature Prediction in Weather Forecasting
Zahra Karevan and Johan A.K. Suykens
Entropy 2018, 20(4), 264; https://doi.org/10.3390/e20040264

Pointwise Partial Information Decomposition Using the Specificity and Ambiguity Lattices
Conor Finn and Joseph T. Lizier
Entropy 2018, 20(4), 297; https://doi.org/10.3390/e20040297

We congratulate and thank the authors for having chosen Entropy to publish their work.

In recognition of their accomplishment, the authors will collectively receive a cash award of 500 CHF, and the privilege of publishing an additional research article or review paper free of charge in open access format in Entropy after the usual peer-review procedure.

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Entropy and on behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 Entropy Travel Award in the field of Information Theory.

Zahra Baghali Khanian is PhD student at ICFO Barcelona and UAB Barcelona under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Winter and Prof. Maciek Lewenstien. She works on quantum Shannon theory and applications in quantum information. She is planning to present her works “Distributed Compression of Correlated Classical-Quantum Sources: The Price of Ignorance” and “Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Data Compression” at the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT2019, 7–12 July 2019, Paris, France). The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs to be used to attend this conference.

With so many high-quality applicants, it was a very difficult decision, and we thank all the applicants. We wish to congratulate Ms. Zahra Baghali Khanian for her accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Entropy and on behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 Entropy Travel Award in the field of Statistical Mechanics.

Lorenzo Caprini is a PhD student at Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), whose research is focused on the study of active matter systems. He is planning to present his work “Activity-Induced Delocalization and Freezing in Self-Propelled Systems” at the 27th International Conference on Statistical Physics (StatPhys 27, 8–12 July 2019, Buenos Aires, Argentina). The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs to be used to attend this conference.

With so many high-quality applicants, it was a very difficult decision, and we thank all the applicants. We wish to congratulate Mr. Lorenzo Caprini for his accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Entropy and on behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 Entropy Travel Award in the field of Thermodynamics.

Julian Gonzalez Ayala is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Salamanca, whose research interest involves general properties of thermodynamics systems, optimization and stability of operation regimes, thermal fluctuations, multi-objective optimization, optimization of hybrid power plants, and entropy analysis of complex systems and self-organized critical systems. He is planning to present his work “Thermodynamic Self-Improvement in the Stability of a Low Dissipative Refrigerator Engine” at the 15th Joint European Thermodynamics Conference (JETC2019, 21–24 May 2019, Barcelona, Spain). The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs to be used to attend this conference.

With so many high-quality applicants, it was a very difficult decision, and we thank all the applicants. We wish to congratulate Dr. Julian Gonzalez Ayala for his accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth, we are pleased to announce the Entropy Best Paper Award for 2018.

Papers published in 2017 were preselected by the Entropy Editorial Office based on the number of citations and downloads from the website. The winner nominations were made by a selection committee, which was chaired by the Editor-in-Chief and supported by twelve Editorial Board Members. The two top-voted papers, in no particular order, have won the 2018 Entropy Best Paper Award:

Critical Behavior in Physics and Probabilistic Formal Languages
Henry W. Lin and Max Tegmark
Entropy 2017, 19(7), 299; doi:10.3390/e19070299
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/7/299

Multiscale Information Decomposition:
Exact Computation for Multivariate Gaussian Processes
Luca Faes, Daniele Marinazzo and Sebastiano Stramaglia
Entropy 2017, 19(8), 408; doi:10.3390/e19080408
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/8/408

We congratulate and thank the authors for having chosen Entropy to publish their work.

In recognition of their accomplishment, the authors will collectively receive a cash award of 500 CHF, and the privilege of publishing an additional research article or review paper free of charge in open access format in Entropy after the usual peer-review procedure.

The Entropy Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to Entropy. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

The following referees have been selected to receive the “Entropy 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of their reviews in 2018 (in alphabetical order by surname)

Giuseppe Cavallaro
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy

Dina V. Dudina
Institute of Solid-State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry SB RAS, Russia

Konstantinos Giannakis
Ionian University, Greece

Anton M. Unakafov
University of Goettingen, Germany

Eiichi Watanabe
Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Japan

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief of Entropy
University at Albany, USA

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Entropy, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Entropy Travel Awards.

The awards were granted to PhD student Carlos Granero Belinchon at Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France, and PhD student Peishi Jiang from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Mr. Carlos Granero Belinchon obtained a Master’s Degree in Plasma Physics from Université Paris VI. He is currently writing a PhD thesis that combines physics and signal processing at the Physics Laboratory of the École Normale Supérieure.

Mr. Peishi Jiang’s research aims to quantify and characterize the causal interactions arising from information transferred along separable causal paths that affect a target variable, with a time series graphical model indicating the pathways of the interactions.

Both of them will present their work at the conference Entropy2018.

The award consists of 500 CHF and a waiver of the registration fee for the Entropy 2018 Conference.

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Entropy, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Young Investigator Award: The award was granted to Dr. Nicolai Friis, senior postdoc at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.

Nicolai Friis obtained his PhD in 2013 from the School of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Nottingham (UK). His PhD thesis was awarded the 2014 Václav Votruba Prize for best PhD thesis in theoretical physics. His PhD was followed by a postdoctoral position at IQOQI Innsbruck (2013/2014), and a University Assistant position at University of Innsbruck (2014-2017), both in the group of Hans J. Briegel. In 2017 he started a senior postdoc position in Marcus Huber’s group at IQOQI Vienna. Dr. Friis’s research interests lie in the overlap of quantum information and computation with quantum optics and quantum thermodynamics. Currently, his research is aimed at investigating the connections between resources for quantum computation, quantum metrology, and quantum thermodynamics, in particular the energy cost of creating correlations and entanglement, and the certification and quantification of entanglement under laboratory conditions.

The award consists of:

• 2500 Swiss Francs;
• The book Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by Edwin T. Jaynes;
• A commemorative plaque;
• A waiver of registration fees for and a presentation at the conference “Entropy 2018: From Physics to Information Sciences and Geometry” (https://sciforum.net/conference/Entropy2018-1).

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief

The Entropy Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to Entropy. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

The following referees have been selected to receive “Entropy 2017 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness and quality of their reviews in 2017 (in alphabetical order by surname)

Gabriela Huminic
Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

Douglas E. Lake
University of Virginia, USA

Matjaž Perc
University of Maribor, Slovenia

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief of Entropy
University at Albany, USA

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Entropy, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Entropy Travel Awards.

Travel Awards were granted to Ms. Gabriella Heller, Ph.D. student at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK and to Dr. David Gelbwaser, post-doctoral researcher at Center for Excitonics fellow and Aspuru-Guzik group, Harvard University, USA.

Ms. Gabriella Heller’s research is aimed at exploiting entropy to develop small molecules to therapeutically target disordered proteins associated with human disease. She is planning to present her work at the EUROMAR2017 conference.

Dr. David Gelbwaser’s research aims to understand what limits thermodynamics sets to the performance of quantum mechanical devices, particularly quantum heat machines and to show that quantum effects may enhance the performance of heat machines. He is planning to present his work at the conference Non-Markovianity and Strong Coupling Effects in Thermodynamics.

The awards consist of 800 Swiss Francs each to attend those specified academic conferences during 2017.

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor in Chief