About the Editors
Editor-in-Chief
Kirill Horoshenkov, PhD
Professor of Acoustics, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, UK
Professor Horoshenkov's main research interests are in acoustic instrumentation, materials, physical acoustics and noise control. His other research interest is in robotic sensing with sound waves. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Acoustical Society of America and UK's Institute of Acoustics.
Associate Editors
Ayache Bouakaz, PhD
Inserm
France
Dr. Bouakaz's research focuses on advancing ultrasound imaging and therapeutic technologies, with particular emphasis on contrast agents, cavitation phenomena, and image-guided therapy. He works on developing acoustic methods that bridge fundamental acoustics, biomedical imaging, and therapeutic applications of ultrasound, with the goal of translating innovative ultrasound-based technologies toward clinical use.
Hong Chen, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Neurosurgery
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA
Dr. Chen’s research interest is in transforming the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of brain diseases through pioneering advancements in ultrasound technology. She works on discovering intact brain functions using noninvasive ultrasound tools, developing cutting-edge ultrasound-brain interfacing devices and technologies, and translating incisionless ultrasound technologies into clinical practice.
Jing Chen, PhD
Research Professor, School of Intelligence Science and Technology
Peking University
Beijing, China
Jing achieved her PhD degree in signal and information processing from Peking University, and then worked as a research fellow in the auditory perception lab of the University of Cambridge, before she joined in Peking University as a research professor in 2013. Her research interests are in auditory and speech perception, auditory computational models, speech signal processing, and speech neural decoding via brain-computer-interface.
Elke Deckers, PhD
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
KU Leuven
Limburg, Belgium
Elke Deckers received her MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from KU Leuven in June 2008. During her PhD studies at the same university, she developed an alternative prediction method for mid-frequency vibro-acoustic analysis including poro-elastic materials. Holding a postdoctoral research grant of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), she extended her research field to the numerical and analytical modelling of complex lightweight material systems, including viscous materials, metamaterials and meta-porous systems, and the development of supporting fast numerical prediction techniques. She became professor at KU Leuven, department of Mechanical Engineering in 2019 where she is currently supervising the (vibro)-acoustic research activities.
Jean-Philippe Groby, PhD
CNRS Senior Researcher
Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans (LAUM)
Le Mans, France
Jean-Philippe Groby has been a CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans (UMR CNRS 6613) since 2009. His research in physical acoustics focuses on the design, manufacturing, and characterization of complex structures for the control of audible sound, such as metamaterials, meta-surfaces and metafluids, as well as porous and poroelastic materials.
Lixi Huang, PhD
Professor and Deputy Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
Lixi teaches acoustics and aeronautical engineering at the University of Hong Kong. He earned his BEng and MPhil degrees from BUAA before studying acoustics in Cambridge (supervised by Prof JE Ffowcs Williams) for his PhD. His current research interest is mainly the control of noise and flow-induced vibration.
Tracianne Neilsen, PhD
Brigham Young University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Provo, UT, USA
Tracianne (Traci) Neilsen is currently a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Brigham Young University. She earned her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. Her initial research was completed at the Applied Research Laboratories, University of Texas at Austin, investigating iterative optimizations for source localization and seabed parameterization in shallow ocean environments. For more than a decade she was a part-time assistant professor at Brigham Young University and did research on jet noise source characterization. In May 2018, she became a full-time associate professor and returned to underwater acoustics research. She is currently working with student research assistants applying deep learning to underwater acoustics applications and exploring ways to improve the robustness of generalizations in dynamic ocean environments.
Advisory Editor
Vittorio Aita, PhD
Springer Nature, UK
Vittorio joined Nature Communications in July 2025, after working at Nature Reviews Methods Primers, where he handled Physics content. He obtained a MSc in Physics from the University of Naples (Italy) and a PhD in Physics from King’s College London, where he also covered a post-doctoral position. His research was based on structured light, starting from fabrication of liquid-crystal-based optical components, to the application of vector beams in nanophotonics. During his time in London, he focused on plasmonic metamaterials and their interaction with tightly focused beams, supporting experimental results with semi-analytical calculations. He is based in the London office and he will mainly be handling manuscripts regarding topological photonics, nonlinear optics and lasers, acoustics, plasmonics and metamaterials.
Editorial Board Members
Arianna Astolfi, PhD, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Andrea Argüelles, PhD, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA
Francesco Avallone, PhD, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Philippe Blondel, PhD, University of Bath, Bath, UK
Simon Chandler-Wilde, PhD, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Mandar Chitre, PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Gennady Gor, PhD, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA
Peter Goransson, PhD, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Maarten Hornikx, PhD, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
James Joseph, PhD, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
Jian Kang, PhD, University College London, London, UK
Jinwook Kim, PhD, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
Ray Kirby, PhD, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Anton Krynkin, PhD, The University of Sheffield, Mechanical Engineering,Sheffield, UK
Jing Lu, PhD, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Marco Miniaci, PhD, CNRS, Lille, France
Chen Shen, PhD, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, USA
Chiara Visentin, PhD, University of Ferrara, Italy
Keith Worden, PhD, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Jean Marc Wunderli, PhD, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland
Yicheng Yu, PhD, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Chengshi Zheng, PhD, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Sipei Zhao, PhD, Centre for Audio, Acoustics and Vibration, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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