Changes to the CPS Board

Dominic Papineau (UCL Earth Sciences) has left UCL to take up a post as senior research scientist at the Institute of Deep Sea Science and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dominic continues as an Honorary Professor of Precambrian Biogeochemistry and Exobiology in the UCL Department of Earth Sciences and as an Honorary member of the CPS.

Ingo Waldmann (UCL P&A) has taken up a full-time industry secondment for three-years to lead his start-up company Spaceflux Ltd, which provides optical space domain awareness data using a global network of robotic telescopes. Ingo will still be around occasionally as he plans to build a strong Research & Development group and provide a regular student internship scheme with UCL Physics & Astronomy.

We thank both of them for their time and contributions to the CPS Board and activities, especially for Dominic's term as CPS Director and Ingo for his role as the MSc Planetary Science Programme Lead, and wish them every success with this exciting new phase in their careers.

We are delighted to welcome the newest members of the CPS Board: Maxim Ballmer, Associate Professor in Geodynamics at UCL Earth Sciences, and Louisa Preston, Lecturer in Planetary Science, Head of the Planetary Science group and Director of the Habitability Lab at UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory.

• Dr Maxim Ballmer's academic profile
• Dr Louisa Preston's academic profile