Dr. Bahar Mehmani is Publishing Innovation Manager in the Innovation and Publishing Development department (IPD) at Elsevier's Amsterdam office. She is working on a number of reviewer-related projects, all of which are designed to recognize reviewers' contribution to the progress of science. She received her PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Amsterdam opens in new tab/window (UvA) in 2010. Before joining Elsevier, she was a postdoc researcher at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light opens in new tab/window (MPL).