The successful operation of a scientific journal such as JOSA B depends on the work and dedication of volunteers who serve on the editorial board. These volunteers offer their expertise and invest countless hours and significant amounts of energy, thereby providing an important service to the community.

I am therefore pleased to welcome the newest group of editors, Ying Hu, Gyu-Boong Jo, Ruwen Peng, Gyula Polónyi, and Antonio Vidiella-Barranco, to the JOSA B team.

Prof. Hu, Prof. Jo, and Prof. Vidiella-Barranco will strengthen the broad area of quantum optics and optical quantum technologies. They are, respectively, recognized experts at the interface of AMO and condensed-matter physics, the interface of AMO physics and quantum optics, and quantum optics/quantum information processing and quantum communication. These areas are presently witnessing significant growth and I am pleased that Ying, Gyu-Boong, and Antonio have joined the team, thereby allowing JOSA B to address these developments.

Prof. Peng and Dr. Polónyi are, respectively, leading experts in plasmonics and nanophotonics, and THz radiation generation and its applications. These core JOSA B topics continue to perform very well and Ruwen and Gyula will help ensure that these topics continue to be adequately represented in JOSA B. Gyula is, additionally, the latest recruit to our assistant editor program [1], whereby we hope to contribute to the professional development of early career researchers in the field by training the next generation of editors. He is mentored by current topical editor Oleg Kornilov.

Finally, I would like to announce that topical editor Lora Ramunno has accepted an appointment to JOSA B feature editor. In this capacity, Lora will identify topics and authors for invited tutorials and guest editors for feature issues in key research areas. Together with regular research articles, feature issues and tutorials are important vehicles by which JOSA B fulfills its mission to serve the optics and photonics community. Lora’s enthusiasm and broad expertise will be a huge benefit towards advancing these special features.

I salute our current and former editorial team members for their commitment and dedication, and look forward to their continued contributions to the success of JOSA B.

Feature Editor

Lora Ramunno

Lora Ramunno obtained her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 2002. After a year in a high-tech start-up, she returned to academia as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Since 2007, she has been a faculty member in the Physics Department there and is currently Full Professor. She held a Canada Research Chair in Computational Nanophotonics from 2007 to 2017 and was the recipient of an early researcher award in 2007. Her theoretical/computational research focuses on nonlinear and nano-optics, including intense laser–matter interaction, nanophotonics, nonlinear optical microscopy, and photonic devices, and includes several successful industrial collaborative projects. She is a Fellow of the Max-Planck-uOttawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics, a Fellow of the NRC-uOttawa Joint Centre for Extreme Photonics, and a member of the uOttawa Centre for Research in Photonics.

Topical Editors

Ying Hu

Quantum Optics

Ying Hu obtained her Ph.D. in physics from Vanderbilt University, USA, and later worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre for Nonlinear Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, and International Center for Quantum Materials at Peking University, China. After working as a junior scientist in the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria, in 2012, she joined Shanxi University, China, as a professor in physics in 2017. Her research interests lie at the broad interface of AMO and condensed matter physics, covering theoretical quantum optics, topological quantum matter, open quantum system dynamics, quantum simulation, and quantum sensing.

Gyu-Boong Jo

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics; Quantum Optics

Prof. Gyu-Boong Jo is a Professor of Physics at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. After earning his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, in 2010—where he was recognized with the Samsung PhD Fellowship—he carried out postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, from 2010 to 2013. He holds bachelor’s degrees in both physics and mathematics from Seoul National University, South Korea, earned in 2003. A key area of his research is exploring ultracold atoms to simulate new quantum many-body systems, as well as creating a programmable quantum simulation platform for quantum computation using neutral atoms.

Ruwen Peng

Nanophotonics, Metamaterials and Metasurfaces, Plasmonics

Ruwen Peng received her Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from Nanjing University, China, in 1998. She is currently a distinguished professor in the School of Physics at Nanjing University and a principal investigator at the National Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, China. She received the Chinese National Science Foundation Award for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2006, the Chinese Young Women Scientists’ Award in 2011, and the Xie Xide Award from the Chinese Physical Society in 2013. Her research interests include nanophotonics, metamaterials and metasurfaces, plasmonics, photonic crystals and quasicrystals, phononic transport, and heat transfer in nanostructures. She has co-authored more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Antonio Vidiella-Barranco

Quantum Optics/Quantum Information Theory

Antonio Vidiella-Barranco is a Professor at the Gleb Wataghin Institute of Physics, University of Campinas, Brazil. He obtained his Ph.D. in the field of quantum optics from Imperial College London, UK, in 1992, and since 1996 he has been a faculty member at the University of Campinas. His main research interests are theoretical quantum optics, quantum processing of information, and quantum communications. In particular, his research focuses on methods of generation and characterization of quantum states of light, cavity QED, open quantum systems, and quantum cryptography. He is a member of Optica and the Brazilian Physical Society.

Assistant Topical Editor

Gyula Polónyi

THz Radiation Generation and Its Applications

Gyula Polónyi started his work as an Assistant Research Fellow in 2015 at the University of Pécs in Hungary, where he received his Ph.D. in 2018, and is currently a Research Fellow. His research interests are THz generation by optical rectification in semiconductors and inorganic and organic materials. His recent research interest involves investigation of light-harvesting biological systems via THz radiation. He received the Ferenczi György Memorial award in 2018 for international level performance in the field of experimental research and practical application of semiconductors.