Congratulations to our recent PhD alumni Maxwell and Vitor for both being awarded the ‘Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses’. This means that in each case both PhD assessors ranked their PhD theses amongst the top 10% of all PhD theses they ever examined. This is a great testimony to their outstanding PhD research and writing skills. Further congratulations go to PhD candidates Michael and Ming for scoring the 3rd and people’s choice awards in the 2023 PGSOC poster competition. Well done Michael and Ming plus a big shout out to all of our awesome students who prepared and defended excellent posters and their awesome PostDoc mentors!