Rachel Won
@rachelpcwon.bsky.social
Editor of Nature Photonics. Based in London.
Our Nov 2025 issue features a Focus on #NeuromorphicDevices showcasing innovations in #bio-inspired #sensing, #computing and #human-machineinterfaces, and two UK national centres in #neuromorphiccomputing tech and hardware🧠 Take a look 😉💡 #electronics #photonics #AI www.nature.com/collections/...
Focus on Neuromorphic Devices
This Focus highlights advances in neuromorphic devices for bio-inspired sensing, computing and human–machine interfaces
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Have you read our July 2025 issue? It features solar-powered #electricvehicles and #hydrogen for sustainable #energy systems, low-dimensional low-symmetric #semiconductors for polarization-sensitive #photodetection and 2D #Bi2O2Se for future #electronics 💡 www.nature.com/natrevelectr...
Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering - Volume 2 Issue 7, July 2025
Thanks to high mobility, suitable bandgap, native high-k oxide, and compatibility with industrial process, two-dimensional bismuth oxyselenide (2D Bi2O2Se)...
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If you haven't seen this recruitment news... @natrevelectreng.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com @springernature.com is hiring an Associate/Senior Editor. The closing date is 1 Jul. Please DM me if you have any questions 💡 🤗
Rachel Won@rachelpcwon.bsky.social · last yr.My first task is to hire an Associate/Senior Editor for @natrevelectreng.nature.com. Would you be interested in joining me to shape the journal? Pls DM me if you have any questions💡Apply by 1 Jul. @natureportfolio.nature.com @springernature.com springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
My first task is to hire an Associate/Senior Editor for @natrevelectreng.nature.com. Would you be interested in joining me to shape the journal? Pls DM me if you have any questions💡Apply by 1 Jul. @natureportfolio.nature.com @springernature.com springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering
Job title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering Location: Shanghai or New York – hybrid working model Closing date: 1st July 2025 About Springer Nature Group Springer Natu...
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Celebrating my 19 years with @natphoton.nature.com today,I'd like to share that I'll be the ChiefEditor of @natrevelectreng.nature.com from 1Jul🥳It's been an incredible journey w Oliver @davidpile.bsky.social Noriaki,Giampaolo &the amazing #photonics community.Your ongoing support is much needed💡
If you haven't done so already, today is the last day for the application for this Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature 😀 Please encourage your female colleagues to apply too 💃🏻 🤗 💡 #WomeninSTEM #WomeninTechnology @natureportfolio.nature.com @springernature.com @natphoton.nature.com
Rachel Won@rachelpcwon.bsky.social · last yr.I am honoured to serve as a judge for the prestigious Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature 2026 @springernature.com The aim of this award is to recognize and celebrate the remarkable women spearheading advancements in technology💃💡#WomeninSTEM Deadline: 30 May 2025 womenintechnology.sony.com
I am honoured to serve as a judge for the prestigious Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature 2026 @springernature.com The aim of this award is to recognize and celebrate the remarkable women spearheading advancements in technology💃💡#WomeninSTEM Deadline: 30 May 2025 womenintechnology.sony.com
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Making data transparent is an important step in closing the gender gap in peer review! #WomeninSTEM #DEI @natphoton.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com
Springer Nature@springernature.com · last yr.Why does gender diversity in publishing matter? Because it leads to better science. Sowmya Swaminathan & Marios Karouzos explore the gender gap in peer review at Nature Portfolio in our latest Springboard blog. 🔗 go.sn.pub/o2mewb #DEI #WomenInSTEM
Hanging out with a very nice crowd of people during Surface Plasmon #Photonics #SPP11 last week in Tokyo! Look forward to seeing you soon again, before Lausanne for #SPP12 hopefully 🤗 💡
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence is transforming peer review — and many scientists are worried. Are you? 💡 @nature @natureportfolio www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI is transforming peer review — and many scientists are worried
Artificial intelligence software is increasingly involved in reviewing papers, provoking interest and unease.
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New article online: Intrinsic optical bistability of photon avalanching nanocrystals. go.nature.com/3DSOmUC
Happy International Women's Day 💐💃🎊💡 #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2025
Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · last yr.To mark International Women’s Day, six award-winning female scientists told Nature about the women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others. #WomenInStem 🧪
New #OpenAccess article online: Terawatt-attosecond hard X-ray free-electron laser at high repetition rate demonstrated at European XFEL. go.nature.com/4i5uP27
#NobelPrize laureates Anne L'Huillier talks about watching the quantum world with ultrashort light pulses, when William Phillips brings us to the incredible past, amazing present & magnificent future of quantum mechanics 💡 #IYQ2025 @unesco.org
Convincing the UN to proclaim an international year is a long and difficult process and the nation of Ghana was the main player in proposing the resolution to the General Assembly. Ghanian government representative now speaking!
Hello Paris! Here I am for the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025's opening ceremony in @unesco.org 4-5 Feb💡#IYQ2025 #quantum #optics @naturephotonics.bsky.social
Meeting up #WomeninOptics #PhotonicsWest @spie.org Sile NIC Chormaic, Clara Saraceno, Giulia Tagliabue, @rachelgrange.bsky.social, Andrea Redondo-Blanco, @drarmani.bsky.social, @astchalyan.bsky.social and Sona Hosseini 💃🎉🎊🥳💃
Announcement! The Opening Ceremony of the International Year of Quantum Science & Technology on 4-5 February is being broadcast live. Programme PDF here: articles.unesco.org/sites/defaul... More info here: www.unesco.org/en/articles/... Webcast link here: webcast.unesco.org/events/2025-...
Visit my interview with Sir Peter Knight where he talks about quantum research and technologies in the UK, and his role in the @unesco.org #IYQ2025 💡 @naturephotonics.bsky.social rdcu.be/d72A6
It’s big quantum time
Nature Photonics - Sir Peter Knight, described as "one of the UK’s most influential scientists and leaders of scientific policy" by his peers, tells Nature Photonics about the many...
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A Celebration of Women in Optics #CelebrateWiO #WomeninSTEM - what a great event by @spie.org @jesswadereports.bsky.social and Lia Li at Photonics West 💃🎉👏 And we want more please 🤗 @naturephotonics.bsky.social
SPIE@spie.org · 2y ago“Raising awareness is not enough. We need to take action, and this starts with educating ourselves and others.” Rachel Won, International Editor at @naturephotonics.bsky.social, gives a lightning talk titled, “Too Few Women Authors.” #WomenInSTEM #CelebrateWiO @rachelpcwon.bsky.social
2025 Conference on Education and Training in Optics & Photonics (ETOP) to be held 19-22 May 2025 in Glasgow. Don't wait, submit your papers before 27 Jan 👩💻🧑💻💡 mailchi.mp/ieee.org/rem... #ETOP2025
[Deadline Approaching: Call for Papers and Workshops] 2025 IEEE Conference on Education and Training in Optics & Photonics (ETOP)
Paper & Proposal Submission Deadline: 27 January 2025
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I'm attending @spie.org #PhotonicsWest ✌️ Are you? 🤔🤗
SPIE@spie.org · 2y agoGet ready for the world's largest photonics technologies event! Review the outstanding lineup of plenary speakers, and make plans to attend the free #PhotonicsWest Exhibition. See you in San Francisco, 25-30 January 2025.💡 spie.org/conferences-...
Many of you don't know much about @optica.bsky.social #OpticaBICOP2024. I have just attended my second BICOP in London and it is getting more and more solid in terms of science and crowds (as well as its receptions 🍷🥂🍻)! See you there next time! @roelbaets.bsky.social
Huh and we happy, chirpy #blueskiers are meeting here in Melbourne for #NFO17, @spie.org's Defence Workshop and #AIPCongress! #naturephotonics @igordownunder.bsky.social @tmos-arc.bsky.social!
Igor@igordownunder.bsky.social · 2y agoAnd here we are!! @rachelpcwon.bsky.social #naturephotonics @tmos-arc.bsky.social
Very happy to be the faithful advocate of this important voice: It's time to change, it's time to diversify the speaker program! Let's do it together! rdcu.be/d15PE 👍😊💡
Increasing diversity in conference speaker programmes
Nature Photonics - Increasing diversity in conference speaker programmes
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Look forward to the great food and weather in Guangzhou 🌞🌩️, and of course the big gathering 群英会 of photonics community 🤗💡
Rachel Won@rachelpcwon.bsky.social · 2y agoJoin me at Nature Conference on Disruptive Photonics Technologies 2024 #DPT2024 in Guangzhou, China 15-17 Nov with solid speakers in integrated photonics, nanophotonics, metaoptics & imaging! conferences.nature.com/g2mqmo?sms=2 By Jinan University, Nature Photonics, Nature Materials & Nature Commun💡
