Dr Chrystèle Sanloup is for the duration of her AIRAPT mandate based at the University of Edinburgh, UK, on a leave from her academic position at the University Paris-6, France. She graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure and received her PhD from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. Her current research interests focus on liquids of geophysical interest at extreme conditions using X-ray synchrotron techniques. She was elected member of the AIRAPT Executive Committee in 2011. E-mail: chrystele.sanloup@upmc.fr