Rodrigo Alves Fontenele, a PhD student in our Graduate Program, has won the best poster award at an important international workshop. The event, called 'Workshop on Quantum Monte Carlo Methods at Work for Describing Novel States of Matter', took place in Trieste, Italy, in July 2023.Rodrigo's research is supervised by Professors Raimundo Rocha dos Santos and Natanael Costa. His winning poster presented his work on advanced physics topics.The workshop was held at ICTP, a well-known research center in Italy. This achievement highlights the quality of research being done at UFRJ. . For more information, click here to visit the website.