We are pleased to announce that in the seventeenth edition of the “City of Poznań Award for outstanding master’s and doctoral thesis” one of four equal distinctions in the category of doctoral theses was awarded to the dissertation by Dr. Ireneusz Stolarek entitled “Biological history of human populations inhabiting the area of contemporary Poland in the first centuries of our era – interdisciplinary archaeogenomic studies” (supervisor: Prof. Marek Figlerowicz). Congratulations!