At IEEE Journal of Microwaves (JMW) we believe that quality reviewers deserve to be recognized! After completing our first year of articles, we started a formal program to celebrate those individuals who went above and beyond in their voluntary commitments to review papers for us.

In December each year, we contact all our authors and all of our editors, and we ask them to search through their JMW papers from that calendar year and select those high-value reviews that either made a difference to the quality of a particular manuscript or the ability of an editor to decide on the true merits of a submitted paper. During the nomination and evaluation process, reviewer identities are kept completely anonymous, and only the Editor-in-Chief knows the names of the nominees. A committee then selects the top nominees, and we honor the contributions of these special individuals with a formal certificate and an announcement of their names in both our journal and our Newsletter as well as in the Microwave Magazine.

This year, we would like to honor five individuals out of more than 700 reviewers who have submitted responses to our requests to look over particular articles – sometimes as many as three times, and submit their detailed comments. The reviews were submitted between November 2024 and December 2025.

We are extremely pleased to announce our “Outstanding Reviewers of 2025”:

Atsutse Kludze: Graduate Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

Zhaolong Li: Ph.D.(Montreal), Professor, School of Integrated Circuits, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

Hans-Peter Marshall: Professor, Department of Geosciences and Cryosphere Geophysics and Remote Sensing, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, USA

Anna Piacibello: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

Abdulrahman Widaa: Research Staff, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, PTB, Braunschweig, Germany

Each of these individuals has received a special certificate of appreciation from the MTT Society, and their names were announced in the March 2026 opening editorial of IEEE Journal of Microwaves. We repeat their names here so our entire society can celebrate their achievement and hopefully inspire other researchers to participate in this most important aspect of our peer review process.