Nuclear Materials & Energy  was launched in 2015 with the support of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (MPIPP). The journal aims to provide a unique open access venue for the nuclear materials community to share their results. Since the journal’s launch it has published over 700 papers and received its first Impact Factor in mid-2019.

 2020 sees a new era for the journal and some significant editorial changes. We would like to thank the founding Editor-in-Chief, Professor Joachim Roth, for his excellent contribution and commitment to ensuring the success of the journal in its formative years. Professor Roth will now step down from his role as Editor-in-Chief, but will continue his association with the journal in a new role as Special Content Editor.

 We’re delighted to welcome three new Co-Editors-in-Chief for Nuclear Materials & Energy, starting their association with the journal in early 2020. The three editors are Dr Russ Doerner (University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States), Dr Wolfgang Jacob (Max-Planck-Institute of Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany) and Professor Pär Olsson (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden). Each now has joint responsibility for the peer review of content in the journal and the editorial direction of the journal.

Russ Doerner
Russ Doerner

Russ Doerner received degrees from Texas A&M University (B.S. in Physics, 1981) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.S. in Materials Science, 1984 and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1988). Since that time he has performed experiments in the edge and scrape-off layer plasma of confinement machines throughout the world and has been involved in fundamental plasma-material interaction measurements conducted in various linear plasma devices. He has worked extensively with the IAEA in numerous plasma-material interactions coordinated research projects and presently leads the plasma-material interaction research program in the PISCES Laboratory at UCSD, and the US-EU Bilateral Collaboration on Mixed-Material Research for ITER.

Wolfgang Jacob
Wolfgang Jacob

Wolfgang Jacob graduated from Julius-Maximilian University in Wuerzburg, Germany in 1985 and earned his PhD in experimental physics in 1988 from same university while being affiliated with the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), Garching. After a research year as a PostDoc at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose (USA) he returned to IPP and joined the “Plasma Technology” Group at IPP. In 1993, he became group manager of the “Plasma Technology” Group. His research focused on quantitative plasma diagnostics of reactive low-pressure plasmas, in-situ investigations of a-C:H film growth and characterization of a-C:H layers. Since about 2010, his research focus shifted to laboratory investigations of basic plasma-wall-interaction processes with emphasis on hydrogen retention in fusion-relevant materials and interaction of nitrogen with tungsten.

Pär Olsson
Pär Olsson

Pär Olsson graduated with an MSc in theoretical physics from Uppsala University, Sweden in 2001 and earned his PhD in Physics and Nuclear Technology from the same university in 2005. After five years working with modeling of radiation damage phenomena and aging of structural materials at EDF R&D near Paris, France, he was appointed Associate Professor of physics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden in 2011. He is since 2017 Professor of physics with specialization in nuclear materials, since 2016 Head of Nuclear Engineering, and since 2020 Head of the Physics Department at KTH. He is working with radiation damage modeling for fission and fusion reactor systems, with development and modeling of advanced structural materials and nuclear fuels and with development of materials characterization techniques.

We wish the new editors the best of luck with their appointments and we hope that you will join us in welcoming them to the journal!

Joe d’Angelo - Executive Publisher, Materials Science, Elsevier

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Nuclear Materials and Energy is an open access journal devoted to the growing field of research for material application in the production of nuclear energy.

Nuclear Materials and Energy is supported scientifically by the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching.

The emphasis of the journal is on materials employed in reactors where they are exposed to extreme environments in terms of radiation, temperature and corrosive conditions.

To find out more about the journal, please visit here: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/nuclear-materials-and-energy