Mike Glazer appointed as Editor of the IUCr Newsletter

We are very pleased to announce that Mike Glazer has been appointed as the Editor of the IUCr Newsletter, which will be relaunched in an entirely electronic format in summer 2018. Mike will be replacing Bill Duax, who retired last year after 25 years at the helm. We would like to take this opportunity to express our deep appreciation to Bill for his dedicated work and unstinting enthusiasm in disseminating news to the crystallographic community for a quarter of a century.

Mike is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick, UK. He has long been associated with the IUCr, most recently as Vice-President from 2014 to 2017 but also as Editor of the Journal of Applied Crystallography from 1990 to 1999 and as a member of many IUCr Commissions. His PhD research between 1965 and 1968 was under the supervision of Kathleen Lonsdale at University College London, UK, working on the crystallography of organic mixed crystals, and his research since then has mainly been in understanding the relationship between physical properties of crystals and their structures. He is perhaps best known for his classification system for tilted octahedra in perovskites.

Mike became interested in crystals at the age of seven, when he found his first natural mineral. This early interest remained with him and eventually took him into the field of crystallography. Since retirement, much of his time is now spent in transferring that enthusiasm to the public in the form of films, exhibitions, podcasts, interviews, lectures and demonstrations. On a recent visit to the IUCr offices in Chester, UK, where the Newsletter will be produced, Mike said that he was delighted to take on the role of Editor of the Newsletter, and looked forward to working with a team of five Regional Editors. "The Newsletter will be an important focus of the IUCr community," he commented, "and the new format will enable us to reach a much larger audience, including decision makers, informing them of the wonders and importance of Crystallography."

The Newsletter will continue to be the place to go for finding out news and developments in crystallography. Two issues are planned for 2018, with four issues per year to appear from 2019 onwards. Feature articles, information about research, meeting announcements and reports, or other items of potential interest to crystallographers may be submitted to the Editor at any time. Items will be selected for publication on the basis of suitability, content, style, timeliness and appeal. Please send contributions to [email protected].