Universe Awards

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Travel Awards sponsored by Universe. The awards were granted to Dr. Mahdis Ghodrati, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yangzhou University, and Ms. Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez, a Ph.D. student at the University of Pensylvania. The awards recipients will be supported with 800 Swiss Francs each, to be used towards travel expenses to attend conferences of their choice in 2019.

Dr. Mahdis Ghodrati’s current research focuses on holographic complexity and applications of AdS/CFT in quantum information. She is planning to present her work on “The Connection between Holographic Entanglement and Complexity of Purification” at the Quantum Information and String Theory, Kyoto, Japan,
27 May–28 June 2019.

Ms. Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez’s current research focuses on high energy physics and particle cosmology. She is planning to present her work at the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Lindau, Bavaria, Germany, 1–5 July 2019 and [email protected]: Multimessenger Universe Conference, Pennsylvania, USA, 24–27 June 2019.

Universe is proud to support these two young researchers working in the field of theoretical physics and wishes them further success in their careers. We are grateful to all who submitted applications—thank you for letting us get to know you and your work. We hope all of you continue to pay attention to Universe in the future.

I would like to congratulate the winners and thank the selection committee for their excellent work in selecting the winners from such a large number of excellent candidate profiles.

Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Iorio
Editor-in-Chief

The Universe Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to Universe. 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 “Universe 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of their reviews in 2018 (in alphabetical order by surname):

Ivan Arraut, The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Kazuharu Bamba, Fukushima University, Japan
Martin Bojowald, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Peter Millington, The University of Nottingham, UK
Kimball Milton, The University of Oklahoma, USA
Lijing Shao, Peking University, China
Douglas Singleton, California State University, USA

Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Iorio
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Universe, it is my pleasure to announce that the winners of the 2018 Universe Travel Awards are Dr. Yaghoub Heydarzade of the Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran and Dr. Scott Melville from the Imperial College London, London, UK. They will be supported with 800 Swiss Francs towards travel expenses to attend conferences of their choice in 2018.

Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Iorio
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

The Universe Outstanding Reviewer recognition is given to commend the top reviewers for their outstanding peer review efforts in 2017. Recipients were chosen by the Universe Editorial Office, from the journal editorial teams for the quantity, timeliness and quality of their reviews. All the following winners will receive a certificate. Universe Editorial Office is extremely grateful to reviewers for the time, energy and devotion that they have given to peer-reviews.

Júlio César Fabris, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
Lorenzo Iorio, dell’ Università e della Ricerca (M.I.U.R.)-Istruzione, Italy
Roman Pasechnik, Lund University, Sweden
Saeed Mirshekari, ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental
Research, Brazil

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Universe, it is my pleasure to announce that the winners of the 2017 Universe Travel Awards are Dr. Chien-Hsiu Lee, a support astronomer at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, Japan and Dr. Garrett Goon, a postdoctoral researcher at University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. On behalf of Universe, they will be supported with 800 Swiss Francs towards travel expenses to attend conferences of their choice in 2017.

Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Iorio,
Editor-in-Chief

We are inviting applications for two Travel Awards for postdoctoral students and PhD students to attend a conference of their choice in 2017. The nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee presided by the

Editor-in-Chief,
Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Iorio

Candidates’ Requirements:

A general requirement will be that all candidates should be:

–– PhD students or postdoctoral students.
–– They must present their own, original work as an oral presentation
(or poster) at the conference for which the travel award application is
being made.

The Awards will consist of 800 Swiss Francs each.

Please apply by clicking the button above before 24 April 2017.
The winners will be announced by 31 June 2017