The doctoral thesis of Jingya Wang, entitled “High throughput investigation of diffusion and solid solution hardening of HCP Mg alloys”, 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. Y. Cui and it was supported by the China Scholarship Council. Jingya works now as a post-doctoral research associated at Shanghai Jiaotong University in Shanghai.