We are happy to announce that on Wednesday 1 July our colleague Ioannis Markopoulos was presented with the best poster prize at the 1^st BlueMat Retreat! Ioannis presented his project topic “Chemical Approach for Fabrication of Cellulose-Based Hybrid Hydrogels” for Research Area A of BlueMat Cluster of Excellence, with a poster and a 90-second pitch. Congratulations!