| Mar. 2013 | Paper on helium-3 abundances in planetary nebulae accepted for publication in MNRAS. |
| Catherine Kennedy taking WiFeS data of potential CEMP RR-Lyrae stars at Siding Spring | |
| Richard attends the 10th Russbach Workshop on nuclear astrophysics. | |
| Feb. 2013 | Paper on Detection of a magnetic field in three old and inactive solar-like planet-hosting stars accepted to A&A. |
| Nov. 2012 | Richard receives his Sofja Kovalevskaja Award at the award ceremony in Berlin. |  |
| Ap.J. Letter on cyanogen in globular cluster NGC 1851 accepted. | |
| Oct. 2012 | Moved to Bonn and officially started my new position! |