We welcome new members to the Matrix Evolution research project. As PhD candidates respectively, Domenic Schlauch joins MatrixSynBio, Marina Rodríguez Harzi joins MatrixSense and Jonas Nolte joins MatrixNische. Furthermore, two PhD students of the Rudorf group, Marina Käsehagen and Katharina Stemwedel, are now working within the MatrixModel project. Marjan Keirmand-Parizi joins MatrixImplant as a postdoctoral fellow. We wish everyone a good start!