diff --git a/.codespellrc b/.codespellrc
index 00e63876..9c848077 100644
--- a/.codespellrc
+++ b/.codespellrc
@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ ignore-words-list =
     aas,
     AAS,
     lightyear,
+    SME,
diff --git a/about/project.rst b/about/project.rst
index 0845745a..a495abc1 100644
--- a/about/project.rst
+++ b/about/project.rst
@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ Steering Committee
     :aff_name: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
     :aff_link: https://www.dias.ie/
 
+    Shane Maloney is a Senior Research Fellow at DIAS.
+    He obtained his PhD in Solar Physics at Trinity College Dublin before working as a software developer and then engineer at a Dublin-based SME.
+    He returned to academia to work on Solar Orbiters X-ray tetescope, STIX, as part of the instrument team.
+    His work focuses on solar activity, including solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), what triggers them, and how they drive space weather.
+
+
 .. _sunpy_project_custodians:
 
 Project Custodians