Soft Matter is pleased to welcome the following twelve new members to its Advisory Board. 

Piero Baglioni - University of Florence, Italy 

Anna Balazs - University of Pittsburgh, USA 

Glenn Fredrickson - University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Bartosz Grzybowski - Northwestern University, USA

Olli Ikkala - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Eugenia Kumacheva - University of Toronto, Canada

Frans Leermakers - Wageningen University, The Netherlands 

Christos Likos - Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

David Quéré - ESPCI, Paris, France 

Sriram Ramaswamy - Indian Institute of Science, India

Jens Rieger -BASF, Aktiengesellschaft, Germany

Howard Stone - Harvard University, USA

Top row (l-r): Piero Baglioni, Anna Balazs, Glenn Fredrickson, Bartosz Grzybowski, Olli Ikkala.

Bottom row (l-r): Eugenia Kumacheva, Christos Likos, Sriram Ramaswamy, Jens Rieger, Howard Stone.

Our special thanks go to our retiring Advisory Board members Armand Adjari, Hugh Brown, Paul Callaghan, Masao Doi, Nikos Hadjichristidis, Toyoki Kunitake, E. W. Meijer, Dieter Richter, George Whitesides and Karen Wooley for their service on the Board.