Reviewer Excellence Award
The Reviewer Excellence Award serves as a token of appreciation for those reviewers who have recently made exceptional contributions that are instrumental to peer review at the Physical Review journals. Our reviewers play a pivotal role in ensuring integrity and quality in our publications, and we deeply value the commitments and efforts of every reviewer. Each recipient of the Reviewer Excellence 2026 Award has consistently helped to uphold the high standards of our journals while providing valuable feedback to authors toward improving the quality and readability of their articles.
Please join us in extending heartfelt congratulations to each recipient of the Reviewer Excellence 2026 Award and click the arrows to see winners from 2025 and 2024.
2026
Journal
Name
Institution
Peichen Zhong
Yaolin Xu
Qinyou An 安琴友
National University of Singapore
Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University
Wuhan University of Technology
PRX Energy
Jacob Andreas Zavatone-Veth
Jonas Cremer
Ariel Amir
Francis Corson
Marianne Bauer
Harvard University
Stanford University
Weizmann Institute of Science
CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure
TU Delft
PRX Life
Stefano Bosco
Alexander M. Dalzell
Max McGinley
Thomas E. Baker
Xhek Turkeshi
Tristan Kraft
QuTech, Delft University of Technology
AWS Center for Quantum Computing
Cambridge University
University of Victoria
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne
Technical University of Munich
PRX Quantum
Reviews of Modern
Physics
Marie Anne Bizouard
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Sumei Huang 黄素梅
Norma Canosa
Roman Čurík
School of Science, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
IFLP - CONICET - Physics Department, UNLP
J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS, v. v. i.
Physical Review A
Chun Shen
Claus Müller-Gatermann
Volodymyr Vovchenko
Vandana Tripathi
Nicolas Chamel
Wayne State University
Argonne National Laboratory
University of Houston
Florida State University
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Physical Review C
Yu Nakayama 中山優
Rossella Gamba
Helena Sofia Pais
Pierre Auclair
Eleanor Hamilton
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
UC Berkeley
CFisUC, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS and Sorbonne Université
Universitat de les Illes Balears
Physical Review D
Naftali R. Smith
Mathias Casiulis
Sarah A. M. Loos
Haiping Huang 黄海平
Md Sayeed Anwar
Hebrew University in Jerusalem
New York University
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University
Indian Institute of Technology
Physical Review E
Vyacheslav Yakovlev
Sergey V Kutsaev
Jinyu Wan 万金宇
Daniel Marx
Patric Muggli
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
RadiaBeam Technologies
Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Dan-Bo Zhang 张旦波
Daniel Ramos
Xuntao Wu
South China Normal University
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
University of Chicago
Physical Review Applied
Ory Schnitzer
Kai Fukami
Lailai Zhu
Daniel M. Harris
Xiang Yang
Imperial College London
Tohoku University
National University of Singapore
Brown University
Pennsylvania State University
Physical Review Fluids
Kerem Yunus Camsari
Marta Sales-Pardo
Kevin Chou
Jinguang Cheng 程金光
Lev Vidmar
University of California, Santa Barbara
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
D-Wave Quantum, Inc.
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jožef Stefan Institute
Physical Review X
2025
Journal
Name
Institution
Matthias T. Agne
Hui Chen
Ganna (Anya) Gryn'ova
University of Oregon
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
University of Birmingham
PRX Energy
Anne-Florence Bitbol
Fridtjof Brauns
Antonio Carlos Costa
Johannes Zierenberg
EPFL
KITP, UC Santa Barbara
Institut du Cerveau – Paris Brain Institute
University of Göttingen & Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
PRX Life
Margarita Davydova
Steven M. Girvin
Timothy Proctor
Xiansong Xu 许仙松
Adam Zalcman
California Institute of Technology
Yale Quantum Institute
Sandia National Laboratories
Sichuan Normal University
Google Quantum AI
PRX Quantum
Elisa Gouvea Mauricio Ferreira
Philip Nelson
Kavli IPMU
University Pennsylvania
Reviews of Modern
Physics
Francesco Belli
Ankit Jain
Antonio Sanna
Lingling Tao
Constantinos Valagiannopoulos
State University of New York at Buffalo
IIT Bombay
Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
Harbin Institute of Technology
National Technical University of Athens
Physical Review B
Vitali Yu. Denisov
Govert Nijs
Christopher Joel Plumberg
Shuzhe Shi 施舒哲
Agnieszka Sorensen
Institute for Nuclear Research of NAS of Ukraine
CERN
Pepperdine University
Tsinghua University
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
Physical Review C
Davide Gerosa
Srimoyee Sen
Takashi Toma 藤間崇
University of Milano-Bicocca
Iowa State University
Kanazawa University
Physical Review D
Christina Kurzthaler
Maxim Olegovich Lavrentovich
Patrick Pietzonka
Wei-Min Wang 王伟民
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Worcester State University
University of Edinburgh
School of Physics, Renmin University of China
Physical Review E
Alexis Gamelin
Alexander Scheinker
Demin Zhou
Synchrotron SOLEIL
Los Alamos National Laboratory
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Yong Li 李勇
Maximilian Rimbach-Russ
Ying Wu 吴莹
Tongji University
QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Tech
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Physical Review Applied
Daniel Floryan
Marco Edoardo Rosti
University of Houston
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Physical Review Fluids
2024
Journal
Name
Institution
Sosuke Ito 伊藤 創祐
Pablo Sartori
Tan Van Vu
Tian Xia 夏添
Antoine Tilloy
Tomáš Bzdušek
Yang-Zhi Chou 周揚智
Christopher Mudry
Ruben Verresen
University of Tokyo
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Kyoto University
University of Science and Technology of China
Mines Paris - PSL/Sorbonne Université
University of Zurich
Condensed Matter Theory Center
Paul Scherrer Institute
University of Chicago
Physical Review X
Lucy Whalley
Wennie Wang
Xiaolei Yang 杨晓雷
Northumbria University
University of Texas at Austin
Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
PRX Energy
Yifeng Qi 祁一峰
Farshid Jafarpour
Patrick Mccall
Gaia Tavoni
Tan Tzer 陈池涵
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Utrecht University
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Washington University in St. Louis
University of California, San Diego
PRX Life
PRX Quantum
Dominic Berry
Macquarie University
Wei Chen
Kohei Kawabata
Tianyu Liu
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Institute for Solid State Physics in Japan/Princeton University
Southern University of Science and Technology
Physical Review B
Sunny Vagnozzi
Sebastian Steinhaus
Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel
Ana-Maria Raclariu
Peter Denton
University of Trento
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
University of Mississippi
University of Amsterdam
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Physical Review D
Caterina De Bacco
Pierre Illien
Amitava Banerjee
Karel Proesmans
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Cyber Valley, Tübingen
Sorbonne Université & CNRS
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Niels Bohr Institute
Physical Review E
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH/Goethe University
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Giuliano Franchetti
Philipp Delhougne
Tuo Liu 刘拓
Joseph C. Chapman
Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique
Institute of Acoutics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Physical Review Applied
Stefania Cherubini
Mitul Luhar
Alban Sauret
Yantao Yang 杨延涛
Polytechnic University of Bari
University of Southern California
University of California, Santa Barbara
College of Engineering, Peking University
Physical Review Fluids
Yun-Jiang Wang 王云江
Kohei Yoshimatsu 吉松公平
Michael Leitner
Darshana Wickramaratne
Dipanshu Bansal
Xiang-Feng Zhou 周向锋
Institute of Mechanics in China
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Technical University of Munich
United States Naval Research Laboratory
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Nankai University
Physical Review Materials
Physical Review Physics Education Research
Tim Stelzer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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