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CHIEF EDITOR | GIULIA PACCHIONI, PHD, SPRINGER NATURE, UK, ORCID Giulia received her Master’s degree in physics from the University of Milan, Italy, in 2011, with a thesis on the

implantation of metal clusters in electroluminescent polymers for use in OLED devices. She then completed her PhD studies on the investigation of nanostructures on surfaces using scanning

tunnelling microscopy in the group of Professor Harald Brune at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Giulia joined Springer Nature in October 2015 for the launch of 

_Nature Reviews Materials_. She spent 2018 heading up the launch team of _Nature Reviews Physics_. Since January 2022, she is the Chief Editor of _Nature Reviews Materials_. Giulia is

primarily responsible for the areas of quantum materials, superconductivity, topological materials, 2D materials, metamaterials and structural materials. _Giulia is based in the London

office, UK._   SENIOR EDITOR | ARIANE VARTANIAN, PHD, SPRINGER NATURE, US Ariane received a PhD in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she studied the

surface chemistry and self-assembly behaviour of anisotropic colloidal nanocrystals. She then joined _Nature Communications_ in April 2016, where she managed the materials science and

inorganic, nanoscale, physical, and computational chemistry team. In May 2021, Ariane joined the _Nature Reviews Materials_ team as a Senior Editor. Ariane is primarily responsible for the

areas of materials chemistry, nanostructures and surface chemistry. _Ariane is based in the New York office, USA._ SENIOR EDITOR | CHARLOTTE ALLARD, PHD, SPRINGER NATURE, UK Charlotte

completed her PhD in engineering physics from École Polytechnique de Montreal, investigating the encapsulation of organic molecules in carbon and boron nitride nanotubes for biomedical

applications. Charlotte joined_ Nature Reviews Materials_ in March 2022 as an Associate Editor_ _and was promoted to Senior Editor in March 2024. Charlotte is primarily responsible for the

areas of photovoltaics and biomaterials. _Charlotte is based in the London office, UK._ The Reviews Cross-Journal Editorial Team works across the Nature Reviews portfolio, as the need

arises, handling content in the life, clinical, physical and social sciences.