This new academic year will mark our fifth year in existence. Some of the researchers that joined our Board of Associates from the very beginning have ended their second term this summer. We would like to thank Henkjan Honing, Menno de Jong and Dymph van den Boom for their support over the past four years! And we welcome the following new Associates on board:

• Sonja Smets | Logic and Epistemology | Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Science
• Louis Vermeulen | Molecular Oncology | Faculty of Medicine
• Denny Borsboom | Psychological Methods | Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences 
• Annemarie van Wezel | Environmental Ecology | Faculty of Science

Since the number of research directions at the IAS has grown considerably over the past period, we have installed a Management Team in which the major groups of academic disciplines are represented (following the classification commonly used in the Netherlands: alpha, beta, gamma). We are happy to introduce the following new members:

• Federica Russo | Humanities (Alpha)
• Willem Bouten | Formal and Natural Sciences (Beta) 
• Han van der Maas | Social and Behavioural Sciences (Gamma)