We are pleased to announce that Professor Lucas Lamata has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of "Quantum Electronics" in Electronics. His term started at the beginning of March 2021.

Lucas Lamata graduated in Theoretical Physics in 2003 from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and received his PhD with Honors in Quantum Information Theory in 2007 from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, having carried out his PhD research at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain. Latterly, he was a Humboldt Research Fellow and a Max-Planck Postdoctoral Fellow from 2007 to 2011 at the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany. From 2011 to 2019, he worked at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain, first with a Marie Curie IEF Fellowship, and subsequently with a Ramón y Cajal tenure track position and a permanent staff scientist position. Since 2019, he has been an Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics at Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.

His research interests are focused on quantum optics, quantum information, and quantum technologies, with many developments in the fields of quantum simulations, quantum computation, and quantum machine learning. As a theoretician, he has worked in proposals and their experimental realizations with several experimental groups worldwide, among other quantum platforms in trapped ions and superconducting circuits.

He is the author of more than 100 papers in indexed journals (a list of his publications can be found here). He has been an invited speaker in many international conferences in countries including the USA, Germany, the UK, China, Japan, and Australia. Regarding his refereeing and editorial experience, he is a frequent reviewer of more than 60 indexed journals, including Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Physical Review X, and Physical Review Letters, and an Editorial Board Member for six prestigious scientific journals: Machine Learning: Science and Technology (IOP), Quantum Machine Intelligence (Springer), Electronics (MDPI), Quantum Reports (MDPI), PLOS ONE, and Quantum Measurements and Quantum Metrology (De Gruyter).

He has also organized several Special Issues for journals from MDPI, Wiley (Advanced Quantum Technologies), Springer, and ACTA Press.

We would like to warmly welcome Professor Lamata as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to developing the Section "Quantum Electronics" under his leadership.