Reinhard Boehler, formerly a Director of the Max Planck Institut für Chemie, Mainz, Germany, joined the Geophysical Laboratory August 17. Boehler has been appointed Senior Scientist and will work on a broad range of problems in high-pressure science and technology, and will contribute to many projects associated with CDAC. He will be a part of EFree, the new DOE-funded Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy; for more information go here.