Dr. Guinevere Mathies joined our department on June 1st as an Emmy Noether group leader. She studied Physics in Leiden, the Netherlands, and did her PhD also in Leiden in the same department with Prof. Edgar Groenen. During her PhD she developed high-frequency EPR instrumentation to study high-spin transition-metal sites in biological systems. In 2012 she joined the group of Prof. Robert Griffin in the Chemistry Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a postdoctoral…