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One of the traditions at the annual Nederlandse Astronomen Conferentie (NAC; Netherlands Astronomy Conference) is the poster competition. This year, University of Amsterdam, ASTRON & JIVE PhD candidate Alex Moroianu won 1st prize for her poster "MTV Cribs: Fast Radio Burst Edition". The prize committee emphasised both the creativity of the poster and the scientific impact of the work that it presents.

Alex is co-advised by Nina Gusinskaia, Jason Hessels, Benito Marcote & Ziggy Pleunis, and in her PhD she is using the European VLBI Network (EVN) and the CHIME Outriggers to localise fast radio burst sources to milliarcsecond precision. This reveals the local environments of FRBs, which is key to understanding their astrophysical origins.