Spotlight on Associate Editor: César A. Rodríguez-Rosario

Biographical Sketch for César A. Rodríguez-Rosario, Ph.D. (BS Computer Engineering from University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, PhD in Physics from University of Texas at Austin)

Dr. Rodríguez-Rosario is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. His interdisciplinary background is a superficially disguised history of rejection after rejection from one field to the next. He is an expert in Open Quantum Systems, in which he studies theoretical models of how to reject and discard quantum information.

On the left: Ludwig Boltzmann, who's life story is one of many rejections;
On the right: Cesar dressed like Boltzmann.