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'Professor Ekhard Salje (Fellow of the Royal Society)', born in 1946 in Hannover, Germany, is the Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology and Head of the Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University. Before coming to Cambridge in 1986, he was, since 1983, a Professor of Crystallography at the University of Hannover. He became the President of Clare Hall on 1st October 2001. Professor Salje's research is focused in the field of mineralogy and mineral physics using approaches that combine theoretical and experimental methods. In particular, he is concerned with the stability of minerals and the transformation processes that occur within them in response to changes in temperature and pressure. He is the co-author of the report by the Royal Society on nuclear waste and chairman of the Steering Committee of the National Institute for Environmental e-Sciences. As Programme Director of the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) he was responsible for joint research in the field of Future Technologies. He is chairman of the Cambridge e-science Centre and chairman of the steering committee of the Cambridge Environmental Initiative (CEI) which advises on all environmental research in Cambridge. He is president of the British branch of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.