We are happy to announce that on Wednesday 1st of July our colleague Ioannis Markopoulos was presented with the best poster prize at the 1st 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 90-second pitch. Congratulations!