We are pleased to announce that Professor Brad Gibson has been named the 2012 Kevin Westfold Distinguished Visitor, by Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). Over the course of the 2012 year, Professor Gibson will work in collaboration with the Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis Group at Monash to integrate cutting-edge nucleosynthetic prescriptions into state-of-the-art particle and grid-based hydrodynamical codes (Gasoline and RAMSES), in order to make quantitative predictions as to the formation and evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy.