Adam Marinovic, a PhD student with Dr Magdelena Titirici, has won the first poster prize in the "Environmental Materials Section" of the 11th International Conference on Materials Chemistry in Warwick organized by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The authors are Adam Marinovic and Magdalena Titirici and the title of the poster is "Carbon quantum dots and nitrogen doped carbons via hydrothermal carbonization of chitosan and chitin"