Alberta Bonnani joins the EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)

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Published on 23 January 2026

The Steering Committee of EPJ is delighted to welcome Alberta Bonnani, as the new representative of the Austrian Physical Society.

Professor Alberta Bonanni was born in Italy. After studying physics at the University of Trieste, she spent several years as a researcher at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis and the University of Wisconsin.

Since 2015, she has been Professor of Solid State Physics at the Institute for Semiconductor and Solid State Physics at Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz. Since October 2019 she has been Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs at JKU. Since 2024 she is Chair of the Austrian Physical Society.

Her main scientific work is in the field of quantum materials, spintronics and solid state physics.

Mitko Gaidarov joins the EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)

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Published on 12 January 2026

The Steering Committee of EPJ is delighted to welcome Mitko Gaidarov, as the new representative of the Bulgarian Physical Society.

Professor Mitko Gaidarov is a professor of physics and the head of the Nuclear Theory Laboratory in the Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.

In the past he was the Scientific Secretary and Vice-Director of this Institute..

He is a member of the C12 Commission on Nuclear Physics of the IUPAP, member of the Governing Board of the Union of Physicists in Bulgaria and Chair of Section “Physics” of the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria.

Mitko Gaidarov is an Editor-in-Chief of the Bulgarian Journal of Physics.
His interests are theoretical nuclear physics, nucleon correlations in nuclei, nuclear structure and nuclear reactions.

Farewell Renato Angelo Ricci

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Published on 17 December 2025

Former President of the European Physical Society and former President of the Italian Physical Society (SIF, 1981 - 1998), Prof. Renato Angelo Ricci had also led the preparations for merging parts of Il Nuovo Cimento into the newly launched EPJ during his final years as SIF president [II Nuovo Cimento: Historical Recollection]. In 1999 he then became (together with the late Prof. Andrea Taroni) a member of the newly formed EPJ Steering Committee, a role which he fulfilled with much dedication until his retirement from committee work in October of 2005, while remaining always interested in the further development of the EPJ journals.

Prof. Renato Ricci passed away on December 5, 2025.
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