The Geodynamics & Geofluids Team at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is honoured to host the next DRT meeting in 2013, from 16th to 19th September. It will be the first time that it is organised in Belgium, so we’ll do our best to make it a memorable event. We intent to uphold the tradition of DRT by fostering the scientific debate between geologists and material scientists studying all aspects of the deformation behaviour in minerals an rocks.