Mark Senn has been awarded the PANalytical Thesis Prize 2013 by the Physical Crystallography Group of the BCA. The presentation will be at the ECM28 conference at Warwick. Mark’s award is the third recent CSEC success in winning the Prize with Dr Helen Maynard-Casely and Lars Lundegaard being awarded it in 2010 and 2008, respectively. making Edinburgh the most successful university in securing the Prize over the past 10 years.