We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Nicolas Chamel has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of “Compact Objects” in Universe (ISSN: 2218-1997).

Prof. Dr. Chamel’s research activities aim at exploring the properties of matter under the extreme conditions prevailing in compact stars, with the main focus on neutron stars. His work is at the crossroad of nuclear physics, condensed-matterphysics, hydrodynamics, general relativity, and astrophysics. After studying at the Grenoble Alpes University in France, he attended the University of California San Diego in the USA. In returning to France, he received his M.Sc. at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (now Sorbonne University) in Paris and earned his Ph.D. in 2005 under the supervision of FRS Brandon Carter at Paris Observatory, Meudon. Soon afterwards, he was awarded a Lavoisier fellowship from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to pursue his research with Prof. Paweł Haensel at the Copernicus Astronomical Center (CAMK) in Warsaw, Poland.

In 2006, he became a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow as part of the European Union’s research program and joined the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium. Two years later, he was appointed research associate by the Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS). Additionally, he has been lecturing undergraduate physics courses at ULB since 2011. He was promoted to senior research associate in 2018.

Prof. Dr. Chamel has published over 130 peer-reviewed scientific articles and book chapters, with more than 5,500 citations and a current Hirsch index of 41 (Google Scholar). He was awarded the Adolphe Wetrems Prize in 2011 and the Pol & Christiane Swings Prize in 2013, both from the Royal Academy of Belgium. He has been leading research on the equation of the state of dense matter and the structure of compact stars, the influence of high magnetic fields in magnetars, nuclear superfluidity and pulsar-frequency glitches, nuclear and electroweak processes in dense stellar environments and the thermal emission from accreting neutron stars and, more recently, tidal deformations in inspiraling neutron stars and gravitational-wave emission.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Nicolas Chamel as the Section Editor-in-Chief of “Compact Objects” and look forward to Universe achieving many more milestones under his leadership.

For further information on the section “Compact Objects”, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/universe/sections/compact_objects.