Interactions: Nina Meinzer
Nina recently joined Nature Physics as a Senior Editor, having worked at Nature Communications for the last three years. Her research background is in plasmonics and metamaterials, particularly their interaction with optical emitters.
The International Physicists’ Tournament: a shortcut to research for undergraduate students
Guest post by David Collomb, PhD student at the university of Bath
Frequency scanning optoelectronic oscillator
Post by Ming Li, commissioned by Heather Partner
Plato, superheroes and a visit to the abattoir
Post by Malte Gather, commissioned by Nina Meinzer
Serendipitous encounters
If you meet an editor of the Nature journals they will likely assure you that to get published you just need good science. But, the truth is, there is some luck involved too, especially for interdisciplinary work. Sometimes editors accidentally come across gems of papers. Here are two such stories: