A warm welcome to four new QPSA members! Three PhD students are joining the group: Nuria Rego Falagan will work on cold atomic ensembles, Giulia Sionis Ponte joins the effort on single praseodymium ions in nanoparticles while Aya Mneimneh started on the spatial multiplexing in solid-state memories project. Finally, Matteo Pasini, formely PhD student in the Hanson group in Delft, joins as a new post-doc on cold atomic memories.