ICAMS group leader Thomas Hammerschmidt is appointed as founding member of the Editorial Board of the new IOP journal 'Machine Learning: Science and Technology' (MLST). The mission for MLST is to uniquely bridge the application of machine learning techniques across a broad range of subject disciplines (including physics, materials science, chemistry, biology, medicine, earth science and space science) with new conceptual advances in machine learning methods motivated by physical insights, through a single, high impact open access journal.