epp MSc student Fábio Cruz was awarded the 2nd prize for Best Poster in the 12th International School/Symposium for Space Simulations (ISSS-12), out of approximately 50 posters, with his work “PIC Simulations of Collisionless Shocks in Mini Magnetospheres”. ISSS-12 was held in Prague, Czech Republic, on July 03-10 2015 and gathered some of the world experts in computational solar and space plasma physics.