Dr. Gyung-Su Lee was named President of the National Fusion Research Institute of Korea in September. He was previously Director General of ITER Korea. He is succeeded as ITER Korea Director General by Dr. Kijung Jung, who previously was ITER Korea Deputy Director General.

Professor Dr. Guenther Hasinger has been named Director of the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP) at Garching and Greiswald, Germany, effective 1 November. He succeeds Professor Dr. Alexander M. Bradshaw who has headed the IPP since 1999.

British fusion pioneer Nichol Peacock died on July 19 at the age of 77. He joined the British fusion programme in 1956 at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE). He spent two years at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1964-66, and then spent the rest of his career at the Culham Laboratory. In 1969, he led a team of British physicists who went to Moscow to verify the breakthrough results on the tokamak T-3, which began a world shift to tokamak research which continues to dominate world fusion research to this day. For many years he served as chair of the International Fusion Research Council.