The last month carried a lucky spell for the members of ISOLDE's EC-SLI collaboration IS453 "Emission Channeling lattice location experiments with Short-Lived Isotopes", with three of their young researchers winning awards at major conferences in Materials Science.

First, Lino Pereira, a post-doc at IKS/KU Leuven in Belgium was runner up in the "Young Researcher for Best Manuscript Competition" (sponsored by Elsevier BV) at the 21st International Conference on Ion Beam Analysis in Seattle, 23-28 June 2013, for his contribution on "Emission channeling studies on a challenging case of impurity lattice location: cation versus anion substitution in transition-metal doped GaN and ZnO".

Then, Lígia Amorim, a PhD student also at IKS, won the "Award for Best Student Oral Presentation" at the 17th International Conference on Radiation Effects in Insulators in Helsinki, 3 June to 5 July 2013, for her talk on "Lattice sites of implanted Mg in the group-III nitrides".

Last but not least, Daniel Silva, a PhD student from Porto University in Portugal, won the prestigious J.W. Corbett prize at the 27th International Conference on Defects in Semiconductors in Bologna, 21- 26 July 2013. The topic of his contribution was "Influence of the doping on the lattice sites of Fe in Si".