I heartily welcome Dr. Frank J. Rotella to the editorial team of the journal Powder Diffraction. Dr. Rotella will focus as one of the editors who handle submissions of New Diffraction Data (ND) and Data Report (DR) manuscripts. Dr. Rotella joins our two current ND & DR editors, Dr. Soorya Kabekkodu and Dr. Stacy Gates-Rector.

Dr. Rotella adds value to the journal by his extensive experience in a number of areas. First, he is currently an editor for the Powder Diffraction File™ (PDF^®). He edits potential additions of powder diffraction data entries of organic materials to the PDF. Before assuming that role he was a protein crystallographer in the Structural Biology Center, Argonne National Laboratory and used beam lines at the Advanced Photon Source (APS). Earlier, Dr. Rotella spent many years conducting research in the neutron diffraction facilities at the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS) at Argonne National Laboratory.

Dr. Rotella not only brings outstanding breadth and knowledge of crystallography to our editorial team but also already has made valuable, constructive suggestions on how PDJ could assist authors and speed up reviews by publishing check lists that authors can use during preparation of ND and DR submissions.

Having Dr. Rotella on the editorial team should shorten the review process time for these data-intensive articles as well as assure that each author provides all the critical information that readers would expect.

As readers and contributors to Powder Diffraction (PDJ), we particularly would appreciate hearing from you regarding how we can improve the review process and thereby improve the journal. Feel free to send me or any of the editors your thoughts. Finally, we look forward to your next contribution to Powder Diffraction.