The doctoral thesis of Gustavo Esteban-Manzanares, entitled “Atomistic modeling of the strengthening mechanisms in FCC and HCP metals”, has obtained the Award of the Technical University of Madrid to the best doctoral thesis. The thesis was advised by Prof. J. LLorca and Prof. Segurado and it was supported by the Advanced Grant VIRMETAL from the European Research Council. Gustavo works now in Accenture.