About the Editors
Chief Editor: Rachel Won, PhD, Springer Nature, UK
Rachel received her Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering and Material Science from the National University of Malaysia, and her Master Degree in Mechanical and Production Engineering from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, where she conducted research in optical fibre sensing. She worked as an Optics Engineer in the Optical Storage R&D Department of Philips Electronics Singapore before pursuing a PhD in Engineering at Aston University, UK, focusing on microwave photonics and nonlinear optics. After completing her PhD, she joined Aston University's Business Partnership Unit as a Medici Fellow, working on the commercialization of the university's research outputs. Rachel began her editorial career in June 2006 as a Founding Editor of Nature Photonics, later becoming the journal’s International Editor. In July 2025, she was appointed Chief Editor of Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering. She is also an elected Fellow of both OPTICA and the International Society of Optics and Photonics (SPIE). She is currently based in the London office.
Associate Editor: Silvia Conti, PhD, Springer Nature, Germany
Silvia received her M.Sc. in Industrial Chemistry in 2013 from the University of Bologna, Italy. In 2017, she obtained her PhD in bioengineering and robotics from the University of Cagliari (Italy), where she focused on organic printable bio/chemo sensors. Later she moved to Spain as a postdoctoral researcher at Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona, and back to Italy at the University of Pisa and at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova. Her research activity was focused on solution-processed organic and two-dimensional electronic devices for sensing applications. Silvia joined Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering in July 2023 as an Associate Editor. Silvia primarily covers control systems and signal processing areas and is currently based in the Berlin office.
Associate Editor: Miranda Vinay, PhD, Springer Nature, Germany
Miranda earned her PhD in Physical Chemistry in 2022 from the University of California, Riverside. Her research focused on devices made from high-temperature superconductors and prototypical gas sensors made from carbon nanotubes. Miranda joined editorial at Communications Engineering in February 2022, and spent 2023 on the physics team at Nature itself. She joined Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering in February 2025 in the remit of photonic devices, optics, and telecommunications. She is based in the Berlin office.
The Reviews Cross-Journal Editorial Team works across the Nature Reviews portfolio, as the need arises, handling content in the life, clinical, physical and social sciences.
