Editor

I handle the area of condensed matter physics for Nature Reviews Physics. I go to conferences in this area to keep on top of research that is interesting for the community and commission review articles in this topic. I also assess article proposals that come into the journal and handle peer-review and editing of review and comment articles. I'm part of a small team of editors, and we are always discussing ways to cover topics and issues in the most interesting way for our community of readers.

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For the 15th anniversary of the discovery of topological insulators (my PhD topic), we created a collection of review and comment articles from across the Nature journals on topological matter. For this, I wrote an article about the history of the field and a series of short news pieces on recent papers - these are all illustrated with images of desserts that reflect aspects of the research. I've also had fun writing about the history of the discovery of the electron, as part of a series looking at past Nobel prizes in Physics, and how the Boltzmann constant got its name. 

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As a journal, we are interested in broader scientific issues such as physics and sustainability (both the physics of sustainability and also, how to do physics in a more sustainable way), reproducibility and rigour in the scientific method (how can we make science more rigorous?), and diversity, equity and inclusion in physics (see this editorial on how gendered stereotypes in physics have evolved over time.

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I've also been hosting a podcast with a colleague from Nature Communications, that interviews scientists about the stories behind their physics papers, called On Your Wavelength.