The result of the election of the Chair and the Vice Chair of IBAME, the International Board on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect was announced on 17 September 2015 at the meeting of the Board in Hamburg. The new IBAME Chair is Michael Reissner, Technical University of Vienna, Austria. IBAME Vice Chair is Jean-Marc Greneche, University of Le Mans, France. The election of the IBAME Secretary and, possibly, of further Executive Members will be organised by the Chair and the Vice Chair later this year.

Since 1993, the main rule of delegating members by a national Mössbauer community to IBAME, the International Board on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect has been that the number of IBAME members elected in a country were determined by the participation figures by that national Mössbauer community at the last three International Conferences on the Application of the Mössbauer Effect (ICAME). However, after two decades of this practice we had to realize that this approach became outdated. Indeed, results achieved by Mössbauer spectroscopy are more and more presented at topical conferences and also the role of regional Mössbauer conferences increased significantly. As a consequence of this fact, national communities having very important contribution to Mössbauer spectroscopy became underrepresented in IBAME or, in some cases, have completely lost their representation in the Board.