Octavian Postolache, a researcher from IT in ISCTE-IUL, were he is also an Assistant Professor, was distinguished as one of the “Outstanding Reviewers of 2017” of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM), published by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS). This is the second time that Octavian Postolache is nominated as an “Outstanding Reviewer” by the IEEE TIM, having received his first distinction in 2011.

Octavian Postolache was nominated for this award by one of TIM’s associate editors and, on behalf of the editorial board of the IEEE TIM and the IMS Publications Committee, Shervin Shirmohammadi (Editor-in-Chief) justified this distinction for the “invaluable, meticulous, objective, professional and timely manner” by which Octavian Postolache responded to a number of request-to-reviews in 2017.

Working as an editor for TIM since 2000 and having reviewed more than 100 papers just for this journal, Octavian Postolache is someone who is very familiar with the standards, stressing that “More and more to achieve a review of excellence implies a very demanding work on the part of the reviewers”. And, of course, in the reviewing process, time is just as important as quality – “Many times all the reviewing work has to be accomplished under the pressure of the tight deadlines required by the journals, usually no more than 2 or 3 weeks”, concludes Octavian.