Dear Colleagues,

The editorial team would like to congratulate the winner of the Galaxies 2022 Best Paper Award (Lorentz Violation in Astroparticles and Gravitational Waves), who was chosen by a Selection Committee chaired by the journal’s Editors-in-Chief, Dr. Margo Aller and Dr. Jose L. Gómez. Following a review process by the Award Evaluation Committee, the winner was selected.

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; doi:10.3390/galaxies9010012

Please join us in congratulating the winner of the Galaxies 2022 Best Paper Award (Lorentz Violation in Astroparticles and Gravitational Waves). We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for their continued support of Galaxies.

Kind regards,
Galaxies Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Galaxies, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Galaxies 2022 Best Paper Award for Gravitational Wave Detectors.

The award has been granted to:

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; doi: 10.3390/galaxies8040082 

The winner (corresponding author) will receive a prize of CHF 500, a certificate, and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Galaxies in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the authors on their accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups for their contributions to the field of gravitational wave detectors as well as the Award Committee for voting and helping with the award.  

Kind regards,

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Emilio Elizalde, Galaxies

Dear Colleague,

As Editor-in-Chief of Galaxies, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Galaxies 2021 Travel Awards.

The awards have been granted to: Dr. Mahdis Ghodrati, a post-doctoral researcher at Center for Gravitation and Cosmology (Yangzhou University, China), and Dr. Sandra Etoka, a post-doctoral research associate visitor for the “Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics” (JBCA) group at the “School of Physics and Astronomy” of the University of Manchester (UK).

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 winners on their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Emilio Elizalde
Editor-in-Chief, Galaxies

Dear colleagues,

To award the excellence of the papers in Special Issue: X-ray Binary Formation and Evolution, we are pleased to launch our new Best Paper Award. One review or research article will receive this award. The paper will be selected after thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee, led by the EiC, Prof. Dr. Emilio Elizalde.

Eligibility for the award:

– Open to all career levels;
– ONLY submissions in “X-ray Binary Formation and Evolution”, excluding feature papers invited by the Guest Editor.

Selection criteria:

The paper will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria (data source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)):
– Scientific merit and broadness of impact;
– Relevance to the journal’s field;
– Originality of research objectives and/or presented ideas;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citation and download rates by 1 August 2022;
– Authorship (first author, teamwork, and collaboration with other institutions).

Prizes:

The winner will receive the following:
– A certificate;
– 500 CHF;
– A waiver to publish a feature paper in Galaxies (following the normal peerreview procedure, within one year after the award is announced).

The winner will be announced on the journal website in September 2022.

If you want to know more details about the Special Issue and submit your paper, please see this link: (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/galaxies/special_issues/X-ray_Binary_Formation_and_Evolution), with a better chance for more citations and to win the award the earlier it is published.

Kind regards,
Galaxies Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

The editorial team would like to congratulate the winner of the Galaxies 2020 Best Paper Award for the Special Issue “Global Understanding of Accretion and Ejection around Black Holes”. The winner was chosen by a Selection Committee chaired by the journal’s Editors-in-Chief, Dr. Margo Aller and Dr. Jose L. Gómez, following review by the Award Evaluation Committee.

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; doi:10.3390/galaxies10010001

Please join us in congratulating the winner. We would also like to thank all of our authors for their support of Galaxies.

Kind regards,
Galaxies Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

The editorial team would like to congratulate the winner of the Galaxies 2020 Best Paper Award for Special Issue “Gamma-Ray Burst Science in 2030”, who was chosen by a Selection Committee chaired by the journal’s Editors-in-Chief, Dr. Margo Aller and Dr. Jose L. Gómez. Following a review process by the Award Evaluation Committee, the winner was selected.

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; doi:10.3390/galaxies10040078

Please join us in congratulating the winner of the Galaxies 2020 Best Paper Award for Special Issue “Gamma-Ray Burst Science in 2030”. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for their continued support of Galaxies.

Kind regards,
Galaxies Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

The editorial team would like to congratulate the winner of the Galaxies 2022 Best Paper Award for the Topical Collection "A Trip across the Universe: Our Present Knowledge and Future Perspectives", chosen by an Evaluation Committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Emilio Elizalde. Following a review process by the Evaluation Committee, one winner has been selected. The recipient of the Galaxies 2022 Best Paper Award for Topical Collection is as follows:

Black Holes and Other Clues to the Quantum Structure of Gravity
By: Steven B. Giddings
Galaxies 2021, 9(1), 16 ; doi: 10.3390/galaxies9010016
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/9/1/16

Prize: CHF 800

Please join us in congratulating the winner. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Galaxies.

Kind regards,
Galaxies Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the winners of 2020 Galaxies Travel Awards:

Dr. Carolina Casadio, a Postdoctoral Fellow from IA-FORTH (Crete), will attend “15th EVN Symposium”, 6–10 July 2020 in Cork/IRL, to present her paper “Search for 10⁶ to 10¹⁰ Solar Masses Gravitational Lenses”.

Dr. Daniele Gregoris, a Fostdoctoral Fellow from Yangzhou University, will attend “The Fourth Zeldovich meeting”, 20–24 April 2020 in Minsk, Belarus, to present his paper “Curvature Invariants, and Black Holes Horizons”.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for their submissions which, collectively, represent a diverse and fascinating range of research topics. I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Emilio Elizalde

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Galaxies Travel Awards:

Andrea Rossi, a post-doctoral fellow from INAF, will attend the conference “Gamma-ray Bursts in the Gravitational Wave Era 2019”, 28 October–1 November 2019, in Yokohama, Japan, to present his paper “A Comparison between Short GRB afterglows and KN170817: Shedding Light on Kilonovae Properties”.

Maria Tiongco, a post-doctoral fellow from Indiana University, will attend the conference “IAU Symposium 351: Star Clusters: from the Milky Way to the Early Universe”, 27-31 May 2019, in Bologna, Italy, to present her paper “Kinematical Evolution of Multiple Stellar Populations in Star Clusters”.

Due to the high quality of applications, this was a difficult decision. We would like to thank all applicants for submitting their excellent CVs and we appreciate the recommendations from senior researchers. I congratulate the winners for their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Emilio Elizalde, Editor-in-Chief

Galaxies provides an advanced forum for studies related to astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology, including all of their subfields. Different formats, such as specialized research articles, reviews, communications, and technical notes are welcomed. Manuscripts containing original and creative research proposals and ideas are especially appreciated.

We encourage scientists to publish their astronomical observations and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the paper length and full experimental and methodological details, as applicable, should be provided. All papers will be peer reviewed promptly. On behalf of the distinguished members of the editorial board, I extend my welcome to all researchers working on these subjects to contribute to Galaxies.

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As Editor-in-Chief of Galaxies, I am pleased to announce the two winners of the 2018 Travel Awards sponsored by Galaxies:

Travel Awards were granted to Dr. Rosa Valiante, Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) at the Astronomical Observatory of Rome, Italy, and Dr. Mar Mezcua, Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Institute of Space Sciences in Barcelona, Spain. The awards consist of 800 Swiss Francs each, to attend any academic conference in 2018.

Dr. Rosa Valiante’s research involves elaborating models on the evolution of the first galaxies and their immediate descendants, and aims to compare model predictions with existing observational data. She addresses questions on the evolution of the first cosmic structures, with the aim of determining the origin and properties of high-z dust, which have major implications on the interpretation of observational surveys and on the design of selection criteria to search for the first galaxies.

Dr. Mar Mezcua’s work aims at understanding how supermassive black holes form and grow and how this growth affects the galaxy itself. She investigates a wide range of astronomical objects, such as intermediate-mass black holes, dwarf galaxies, ultra-luminous X-ray sources, active galactic nuclei, radio jets, galaxy mergers, and supermassive binary black holes, following a multiwavelength approach, which involves radio, optical, infrared and X-ray observations.