Announcements

The journal Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732) is currently recruiting Topical Advisory Panel Members. The Topical Advisory Panel comprises Early Career Researchers, eager to gain experience in editorial work. Early career researchers that currently hold an independent research position in academia or government institute are invited to apply to join the Topical Advisory Panel, where they will provide support to Guest Editors, Topic Editors, and Section Board Members. Each year, the member’s performance is evaluated, and outstanding members will be promoted to the Editorial Board by the Editor in Chief.

You can check the detailed Topical Advisory Panel Responsibilities at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/editors#Supporting_Editor_Responsibilities. 

If you are interested in this position, please submit your application at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/photonics/topical_advisory_panel_application.

Photonics is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal based on research on the science and technology of optics and photonics, published monthly online by MDPI, indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), Inspec, CAPlus/SciFinder, and many other databases. The new impact factor of Photonics has increased to 2.676. On the Web of Science, Photonics ranks 37th out of 99 (Q2) in the category “Optics”. The aims and scope of the journal can be found in the Aims and Scope Section on the following website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/photonics/about.

We are pleased to announce that the following eight new scholars have recently been appointed Editorial Board Members for the journal Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732):

Prof. Dr. Daomu Zhao (Zhejiang University, China);

Prof. Dr. Chi-Wai Chow (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan);

Dr. Val Vullev ( University of California, USA);

Dr. Mingxing Li (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA);

Prof. Dr. Bao-Sen Shi (University of Science and Technology of China, China);

Prof. Dr. Adolfo Cartaxo (University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal);

Dr. Adrian Bradu (University of Kent, UK);

Prof. Dr. Sergei P. Roshchupkin (Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia).

We wish them every success in both their research and the development of the journal.

Further details about the Editorial Board can be found at the following website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/photonics/editors.

It is our great honor to congratulate the Editorial Board Members and Editors in MDPI's journals who have been distinguished as 2021 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate, according to Web of Science data. We herewith express our gratitude for the immense impact the named researchers continue to make on scientific progress and on our journals' development.

Clarivate's annual list of Highly Cited Researchers^TM identifies the most highly cited scientists for the past decade. Their impactful papers are among the top 1 per cent in the citation distribution of one or more of 22 fields analyzed in the "Essential Science Indicators", distinguishing them as hugely influential among their peers.

The full list of 2021 Highly Cited Researchers  can be accessed at the following webpage in the Web of Science^TM https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2021/.

--- Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) is a Clarivate product.

Academic editors play a crucial role in leading our journals and ensuring that each article undergoes a robust and timely peer-review. With the launch of Topics this year and addition of Topic Editors to our family of academic editors, we decided it would be a good time to restructure our academic boards, thus providing more clarity and support for each role. MDPI is pleased to announce the launch of a new position—Topical Advisory Panel Member, that will replace the previous position of Topics Board Member. The Topical Advisory Panel will be comprised of early career researchers eager to gain experience in editorial work.

The main responsibility of the new members of the Topical Advisory Panel is to regularly provide support to Guest Editors, Topic Editors, and Section Board Members. The responsibilities of the Topical Advisory Panel are available here: https://www.mdpi.com/editors.

Each year, the members’ performances are evaluated, and outstanding members are promoted to the Editorial Board by the Editor-in-Chief.

To qualify as a Topical Advisory Panel Member, applicants must:

• Have expertise and experience in the field related to the journal;
• Have received a Ph.D. in the last 10 years, approximately;
• Have at least 6-8 published papers in the last 5 years as first author or corresponding author;
• Currently hold an independent research position in academia or a government institute.

If you are interested in this role, please contact the editorial office by email.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Founded in 1996, MDPI was one of the first fully Open Access publisher. Over 25 years MDPI has grown to become the largest Open Access publisher globally, publishing over 160,000 articles across more than 350 journals in 2020. At the core, MDPI was founded in response to a pressing need of fast publication and inclusion. The scholar was set at the centre of the publication process for the first time. Acting as a service provider, rather than a product provider, MDPI exists to help scientists achive their objective to disseminate research results. At MDPI, we believe scientists deserve a better service from the publishing world.

The International Open Access Week (Open Access Week), founded by the SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Alliance and student partners in 2008, has been successfully running for 13 years. As an advocate and pioneer of open access publishing, MDPI actively responds to the call of International Open Access Week. This year’s theme of “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity” highlights the Recommendation’s call for equitable participation from all authors and readers.

For the last 25 years, MDPI has been committed to disseminating open research. Here is a video showing MDPI’s Commitment to Equity, Inclusion and Diversity for More than 25 Years.

International Open Access Week is an important opportunity to catalyze new conversations, create connections across and between communities that can facilitate this co-design, and advance progress in the building of more equitable foundations for opening knowledge—discussions and actions that need to be continued, year in and year out. MDPI has always aimed to provide professional and efficient publishing services to scholars around the world.

Our mission is to make scientific research accessible to everyone; this year, we interview and hold discussions with open science ambassadors on how to build an equal and inclusive environment for open science. Academic editors help us collaborate with more institutions to advocate for open access ideas.

Read our anniversary blog post: "Sharing 'Collective Human Knowledge': The Benefits of Open Access Publication"

Besides this, our scientific community is a key driver of our success and MDPI’s remarkable growth. Despite the pandemic, we have prepared online conferences and workshops to gather scholars from different communities.

The Basel Sustainable Publishing online forum provides an equal opportunity for stakeholders and researchers from multi-cultural environments to exchange ideas and eliminate barriers to participation.

Conference date: 25 October 2021, online
Conference website: https://bspf2021.sciforum.net/
Main topics: MDPI discusses the current dilemma of open access science from various perspectives such as governments, libraries, and publishers, and related measures on how to change the status quo of discrimination from a global perspective.

We aim to support equality, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in scholarly communications. We collaborate with universities and key laboratories and have scholarly communications with researchers, teachers, and students on open access workshops.

• 25 October 2021
  Energies journal and Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• 28 October 2021
  Machines journal and State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University

• 29 October 2021
  Processes journal and Beijing Institute of Technology

• 29 October 2021
  Coatings journal and Wuhan University of Technology

MDPI is committed to providing open access and high-quality publishing services for scholars and promoting rapid dissemination of academic achievements. We hope to promote the practices and policies of open access publishing and diversify the dissemination of academic achievements.

Rigorous peer-review is the cornerstone of high-quality academic publishing. Over 369,916 scholars served as reviewers for MDPI journals in 2020. We are extremely appreciative of all those who made a contribution to the editorial process in this capacity. At the beginning of every year, journal editorial offices publish a list of all reviewers’ names to express our gratitude. In addition, this year, the MDPI Top Reviewer Award was announced, to recognize the very best reviewers for their expertise and dedication, and their high-quality, and timely review reports. We are pleased to announce the following winners of the 2020 MDPI Top Reviewer Award:

• Adriana Burlea-Schiopoiu;
• Alban Kuriqi;
• Álvaro González-Vila;
• Alessandro Alaimo;
• Alexey Beskopylny;
• Alexander Yu Churyumov;
• Alberto Fernández-Isabel;
• Andrea Mastinu;
• Antonios N. Papadopoulos;
• Anton Rassõlkin;
• Antonio Humberto Hamad Minervino;
• Arkadiusz Matwijczuk;
• Artur Słomka;
• Baojie He;
• Bartłomiej Potaniec;
• Bojan Đurin;
• Camilo Arturo Rodriguez Diaz;
• Carmelo Maria Musarella;
• Chiachung Chen;
• Chiman Kwan;
• Cristian Busu;
• Danil Pimenov;
• Dan-Cristian Dabija;
• Delfín Ortega-Sánchez;
• Demetrio Antonio Zema;
• Denis Butusov;
• Elena Lucchi;
• Gaurab Dutta;
• Livia Anastasiu;
• M. R. Safaei.

For more information about how to become a reviewer of MDPI journals, please see: www.mdpi.com/reviewers.

UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. In 2020 the SDG Publishers Compact was launched, aimed to inspire publishers and accelerate progress to achieve the 17 goals by 2030. Members of the programme are committed to support the publication of materials that will promote and inspire actions towards SDGs.

MDPI is an eager advocate of SDGs and has already been supporting the programme by creating Special Issues and publishing a series of books on SDGs prior to joining the Compact in 2021. MDPI's Sustainability Foundation initiated the World Sustainability Awards in 2016. We fully support UN's goals to promote sustainable actions that make the world a better place for all and, as part of its commitment, we will focus our actions on SDG10: Reduced Inequalities whilst promoting all 17 SDGs. For more details, please visit the programme’s website: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sdg-publishers-compact/.

Joining this initiative was a unanimous decision. MDPI has in its core values the dissemination of science for all, breaking the wall between research access and under-represented members of the scientific community and the general population. To support this initiative further and continue to support under-represented scientists, MDPI will take a series of actions that will be announced once ready.

The first action MDPI takes is to nominate Dr. Liliane Auwerter as the coordinator of the programme. Dr. Auwerter studied Environmental Process Technology (UTFPR, Brazil), obtained her MSc degree in Water and Environmental Engineering (University of Surrey, UK) and in 2020 completed her PhD in self-healing low-friction materials for water transport (Imperial College London, UK), always focusing on diverse scientific projects that would potentially bring sustainability to industrial processes. As a student in Brazil, she engaged in volunteering activities focused on environmental education and took part in the Millennial Development Goals meetings held at the university.

For more information, please contact:
Dr. Liliane Auwerter
Scientific Officer
liliane.auwerter@mdpi.com

The journal Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732) is recruiting Reviewer Board Members. The main responsibility of the new members of the Reviewer Board is to regularly provide timely, high-quality reports on the submitted manuscripts. The responsibilities of the reviewers are available at https://www.mdpi.com/reviewers.

Photonics is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal on the science and technology of optics and photonics, published online monthly by MDPI, indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), Inspec, CAPlus / SciFinder, and many other databases. The new Impact Factor of Photonics has increased to 2.676. On Web of Science, Photonics ranks 37th out of 99 (Q2) in the category “Optics”. The aims and scope of the journal can be found here.

The benefits of joining the Reviewer Board of Photonics are as follows:

• We will announce your entry information on the journal's reviewer board;
• We will offer you a discount code (up to CHF 100) if a comprehensive and timely report is provided. The voucher can be used for your future publications in all MDPI journals;
• You will receive a personalized reviewer certificate;
• You will have the ability to adjust your review frequency based on your schedule in our system;
• Reviewer Board Members may be presented with the possibility of joining the Editorial Board of the journal (subject to the approval of the Editor-in-Chief).

If you are interested in becoming a Reviewer Board Member (RBM) of Photonics, please send your application, including a full academic CV, to the Photonics Editorial Office (photonics @mdpi.com).

For more information about Photonics, please visit the website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/photonics.

We are pleased to announce that seven new scholars were recently appointed Editorial Board Members for the journal Photonics:

Prof. Dr. Yung-Fu Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan);
Dr. Mateusz Bawaj (University of Perugia, Italy);
Prof. Dr. Bruno Piccirillo (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy);
Prof. Dr. Jin-Hui Wu (Northeast Normal University, China);
Dr. Anton Husakou (Max-Born-Institute, Germany);
Dr. Howard (Ho Wai) Lee (University of California, USA);
Prof. Dr. Walter Blondel (University of Lorraine - CNRS, France).

We wish them every success in both their research and development of the journal.
Further details about the Editorial Board can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/photonics/editors.

MDPI will be attending the 6th Optoelectronics Global Conference (OGC 2021), hosted by the IEEE Photonics Society, Guangzhou Photonics Chapter, and Southern University of Science and Technology, which will be held from Wednesday, 15 September, until Saturday, 18 September, 2021, at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center, China.

OGC aims to promote the interaction and exchange of various disciplines among professionals in academia and industry at home and abroad. In addition, it also serves to turn technologies into industrial applications. OGC will be an ideal platform for scholars, researchers and professionals to exchange insights and discuss the development of the optoelectronics industry. It will be a perfect gathering to learn about new perspectives, technologies and trends which might push the boundaries of technology and eventually create a broader future for optoelectronics applications.

The topics covered will include precision optics, optical communications, lasers, infrared applications, and fiber sensors.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Photonics
• Nanomaterials
• Electronics
• Remote Sensing

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit http://www.ipsogc.org/index.html.