Sandy Schmidt became member of the Associate Editor board within the Biocatalysis section of the new journal Frontiers in Catalysis. Together with Andrea Kneuttinger (University of Regensburg, Germany), David Cannella (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) and Florian Rudroff (TU Vienna, Austria), she is Guest Editor for a Research Topic on ‘Illuminating biocatalysis: Using the power of light to drive or regulate enzymatic reactions’.