Starting today, May 1, I will join Lijuan in our new co-spokespersons' team of the STAR Collaboration. Earlier today, we made the following announcement to the collaboration. We are excited to work with our new management team and very grateful to an excellent team that got us where we are. Those are big shoes to fill!

This morning the outgoing and incoming management teams held their last joint management meeting. As we announced to Council, starting today, May 1, the new management team will take on its responsibilities. Before introducing the new team to you, we’d like to take this opportunity to express on behalf of the Collaboration our sincere gratitude to all the members of the old team who have dedicated so much of their time in the past years to help steer our collaboration through BES-2, the forward upgrades, and have now put us in the best position to run for three more years at top energies.

Please join us in thanking Helen, Ken, Xin, Rongrong, and Takafumi !!

With the transition now complete [1], Lijuan and I would like to introduce the new management team. We have included their email address and would like to ask you to direct your management queries to them.

Spokesperson: Lijuan Ruan (BNL, ruan@bnl.gov)
Spokesperson: Frank Geurts (Rice University, geurts@rice.edu)

Deputy Spokesperson: ShinIchi Esumi (University of Tsukuba, esumi.shinichi.gn@u.tsukuba.ac.jp)
Deputy Spokesperson: Qinghua Xu (Shandong University, xuqh@sdu.edu.cn)

Physics Analysis Coordinator: Sooraj Radhakrishnan (Kent State University, skradhakrishnan@lbl.gov)
Deputy Physics Analysis Coordinator: Barbara Trzeciak (Czech Technical University, barbara.trzeciak@gmail.com)


Best regards,

Frank & Lijuan


[1] https://www.star.bnl.gov/welcome.php