Reviewer of the Month
Here we acknowledge some of the researchers who have provided outstanding peer review contributions to Communications Engineering, in the opinion of the editorial team. This list is arranged by year of nomination, updated monthly, and all referees listed have consented to being named.
Our featured reviewers are those who have:
- made a significant and positive contribution to the peer review process, regardless of whether the paper was eventually accepted by the journal;
- demonstrated professionalism and compassion in their reviews; and
- provided comments that help the authors to improve their work.
For every named referee there are countless more who have made similar contributions to the manuscripts which they reviewed for us. We regret that we cannot recognize each of them publicly here. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who has taken the time and effort to contribute to and support the peer review process. Each has contributed to the high quality of the papers published in Communications Engineering.
September 2025
Veruska Malavé
Dr. Veruska Malavé is a research scientist at the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division (ACMD), located at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, USA. She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Systems—Mechanical Specialty—from Colorado School of Mines (Colorado, USA) and an M.S. and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Alfred University (New York, USA), and Universidad de Oriente (Anzoátegui, Venezuela). Her research focuses on developing multiphase computational continuum and discrete models to aid interpretation of laboratory measurements of materials—spanning gas, liquid, solid, and particle phases. Presently, Dr. Malavé collaborates with the Breath Metrology program at the ACMD to study the efficiency of prototype breathalyzers used for detecting drug-laden molecules in exhaled breath.
August 2025
Guillermo Álvarez-Narciandi
Dr Guillermo Álvarez-Narciandi is a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the University of Oviedo (Spain) and a Visiting Scholar at Queen’s University Belfast (UK). His research is mainly devoted to the development of portable imaging systems (handheld and UAV-based), synthetic aperture radar (SAR) techniques and computational imaging. He has also pioneered handheld antenna diagnosis and characterization systems.
July 2025
Sadaf ul Zuhra
Sadaf ul Zuhra is a researcher at Ericsson Research in Sweden. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the National Institute of Technology Srinagar, and a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Her postdoctoral research appointments include positions at Princeton University and INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France. Her research interests are in the fields of wireless communications, information theory, federated learning, privacy and SWIPT (simultaneous wireless information and power transfer).
June 2025
Patrick Lott
Patrick Lott leads the “Catalytic Reactors” group at the Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry and is Chief Technology Officer at the Center for Emission Control Karlsruhe at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. With his research he aims at developing, understanding, and improving chemical reactors and processes for reducing local and global pollutants by means of in situ techniques that provide insights into chemical reactors with spatial and temporal resolution and allow for boosting the performance of heterogeneous catalysts as well as process optimization.
May 2025
Jinping Dong
Dr. Jinping Dong is currently an assistant professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department of Beijing University of Technology (BJUT). Before joining BJUT, he completed his B.S.Med. and M.Phil. at Wuhan University from 2008 to 2015. From 2015 to 2023, he first worked as a research assistant, then earned his Ph.D., and finally served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Lee Ultrasound Imaging Group at The University of Hong Kong. His research interests focus on ultrasound elastography and its application in muscle assessment.
April 2025
Sunghee (Estelle) Park
Dr. Estelle Park is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Korea University. Her research integrates patient-specific stem cell-derived organoids and organ-on-a-chip technology to develop physiologically relevant intestine and liver models. By combining stem cell biology, tissue engineering, and microphysiological systems, Dr. Park’s lab aims to elucidate molecular mechanisms underlying inflammation and metabolic dysfunction. Her work focuses on uncovering disease pathways and identifying novel therapeutic targets for metabolic disorders.
March 2025
Charles-Alexis Asselineau
Dr. Charles-Alexis Asselineau is a Ramon-y-Cajal Fellow (Associate Professor, tenure track) at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Honorary Lecturer at the Australian National University. Dr Asselineau’s interests lie in the geometrical design and optimisation of radiant systems, notably applied to solar energy and industrial decarbonisation applications.
Dr. Asselineau holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the IUT Cachan (France) a Master of Engineering in Energy Engineering from IMT Albi (France), a Master of Engineering in Power Engineering form Tsinghua University (China), an in International Energy Management from Mines ParisTech (France) and a PhD in Engineering from the Australian National University (Australia, 2018). Dr Asselineau was a Research Fellow at the Australian National University between 2018 and 2021 and held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship, hosted at IMDEA Energy, between 2021 and 2024.
February 2025
Mark Buckwell
Dr. Mark Buckwell manages the Advanced Propulsion Laboratory at University College London, where he leads on the development of experimental processes for studying the safety of lithium ion batteries and other emerging energy storage technologies, as well as supporting research into batteries, fuel cells, motors and power electronics. He was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher with The Faraday Institution on battery materials and safety, particularly relating to their use in electric vehicles and aerospace. Prior to this, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher on electronic materials and devices, focusing on nanoscale and bulk characterisation techniques, the field in which he had earlier gained his PhD. He has also carried out research into novel drug delivery systems, human nerve and motor functions, and has worked in the pharmaceutical industry.
January 2025
Shelly Miller
Dr. Shelly L. Miller is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and faculty in the Environmental Engineering Program at the University of Colorado Boulder, holding an M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College. Dr. Miller studies urban air quality and works diligently to understand the impact of air pollution on public health and the environment. She is an expert on indoor air quality, airborne infectious disease transmission, air pollution and air cleaning technologies, and assessing and mitigating urban air pollution exposures in underserved communities. Dr. Miller is a member of the Academy of Fellows of the International Society for Indoor Air and Climate (ISIAQ) and is also an Associate Editor for Environmental Science and Technology. Dr. Miller has published over 100 peer reviewed articles on air quality including timely papers on COVID-19 transmission and control and is the principal investigator on the National Science Foundation’s Social Justice and Environmental Equity Project in Denver (SJEQDenver.com).
December 2024
Yangyang Li
Dr. Yangyang Li is an Assistant professor at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on developing geometric machine learning methods for Non-Euclidean datasets, such as manifold learning, metric learning, geometric flow learning and geometric deep learning.
November 2024
Kristaq Gazeli
Dr. Kristaq Gazeli owns a joint PhD Degree in Physics (UPPA, France) and Electrical & Computer Engineering (University of Patras, Greece). He was a Postdoctoral Researcher with two French laboratories (LPGP, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay and LSPM, CNRS, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord), and a MSCA Research Fellow with the University of Cyprus. He is a CNRS Research Associate with the group IPS-μP of the LSPM laboratory (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord). His research interests concern advanced space-time resolved optical diagnostics of non-equilibrium (micro)plasmas and plasma interaction with liquid and solid targets for novel applications (such as material deposition, surface analysis, biomedicine).
Konstantinos Giotis
Konstantinos Giotis is a joint PhD candidate at the Process and Material Sciences Laboratory of Sorbonne Paris North University and at the High Voltage Laboratory of the University of Patras. His research focuses on atmospheric-pressure cold plasmas with emphasis on the mechanisms of plasma-fluid interaction.
October 2024
Alexander Groetsch
Dr. Alexander Groetsch is an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at the Department of Engineering Mechanics of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. He investigates bio-based nanostructured materials and bio-inspired architected (meta)materials with a focus on their mathematical formulation, synthesis (3D printing) and (in situ) structure-mechanical characterization. He regularly uses synchrotron X-ray facilities to study materials at very small scales.
September 2024
Daryl Yee
Dr. Daryl Yee is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Electrical and Micro Engineering at EPFL Switzerland. His research group focuses on integrating molecular design, materials science, and advanced manufacturing to engineer functional architected materials and devices. He is also broadly interested in 3D printing weird and difficult materials.
May 2024
David Mayerich
David Mayerich is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston. His research focuses on designing optical techniques for large-scale three-dimensional microscopy, as well as algorithms and analytical techniques for processing the resulting data.
April 2024
Daniel Fu
Dr. Daniel Fu is a postdoctoral scholar specializing in computational methods that utilize self-assembly. He is currently at Duke University, where his research focuses on algorithmic approaches for generating nanostructures and performing molecular-scale computations using DNA.
March 2024
Perla Maiolino
Perla Maiolino is Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering Science at university of Oxford and the PI of the Soft Robotics Lab at the Oxford Robotics institute. Her research focuses on development of technological solutions for providing robots with sense of touch and soft and compliant bodies, tactile based control and tactile perception for robots.
February 2024
Jaka Tušek
Dr. Jaka Tušek is an Assistant professor at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. His research focuses on caloric solid-state cooling and heat-pumping utilizing ferroic materials. His research also delves into thermal effects in shape memory alloys, with a recent emphasis on advancing elastocaloric technology.
January 2024
Nader Shakibay Senobari
Dr. Nader Shakibay Senobari, a distinguished postdoctoral scholar specializing in Machine Learning, concurrently holds a lectureship in Artificial Intelligence at UC Riverside. His research focuses on the application of advanced Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence methodologies to time series analysis, with a specific emphasis on seismic data analysis.
December 2023
Chunxu Qu
Dr. Chunxu Qu is a professor from Dalian University of Technology in China, with expertise in the field of structural dynamic analysis. His research focus utilizes from monitoring and data vibrating tests to accurately identify the modal properties of structures. He is also dedicated to developing advanced techniques for controlling structural vibrations.
November 2023
Simon Rommel
Dr. Simon Rommel is an Assistant Professor in the Quantum and Terahertz Systems team at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. His research focusses on photonics-driven millimetre and THz frequency communications and sensing systems as well as quantum secure communications, for which he leads the deployment of a field-deployed testbed.
October 2023
Carlo Masone
Carlo Masone is an Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is a member of the VANDAL Laboratory, working at the intersection between robotics, AI and computer vision and developing control and perception algorithms with the goal of increasing the autonomy of robots and intelligent agents.
September 2023
Tom Whale
Dr Whale is a lecturer at the University of Leeds, UK. He works on understanding water ice formation in the contexts of environmental science and low-temperature biology through a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches.
August 2023
Dr. Yuxiao Yang
Dr. Yang is an Assistant Professor at Zhejiang University, China. His research focuses on designing closed-loop brain-machine interface (BMI) systems for neural decoding and control, aiming to provide new therapies for neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders.
July 2023
Dr. Yu Takahashi
Dr. Takahashi is a navigation engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at NASA. His interests focus on orbit determination of interplanetary spacecraft to ensure the safety for NASA missions around planets and asteroids.
June 2023
Dr. Megan O. Hill
Dr Hill’s research focuses on the use of advanced X-ray characterisation methods to probe nanoscale phenomenon in thin films and nanostructures. This includes in-situ or operando characterisation of semiconductors, metal-oxides, and other functional materials with applications in energy and low-power computing.