Our alumny Miguel Herráez has received the extraordinary doctoral award of the course 2017-2018 by the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) for the thesis entitled ‘Computational Micromechanics Models for Damage and Fracture of Fiber-Reinforced Polymers’. Miguel received the award from the Rector during the last celebration of St. Tomás de Aquino. The thesis, carried out in IMDEA Materials, was supervised by the Researchers Carlos González and Claudio Lopes.