Published in Physics World, 1 Jan 2014
As lead editor of Physical Review Letters, Pierre Meystre, from the University of Arizona at Tucson, tells Jon Cartwright about the challenges facing one of the most influential physics journals
What is your research background?
My PhD was in quantum optics, which I did at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in 1974. After finishing a postdoc in the US in 1977, I then moved to the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, where I worked on micromasers and cavity quantum electro dynamics. I then joined the University of Arizona in 1986, where I have been ever since, to work on laser cooling, atom optics and Bose–Einstein condensation. I now work in quantum optomechanics, which is nice because it combines everything together. […]
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