Michelangelo Marini, PhD student of the doctoral school in Materials, Mechatronics and Systems Engineering, won the juniores prize assigned by the organising committee of the 47th national conference AIAS2018, 5-8 September, Villa San Giovanni (Italy). He presented the work entitled “Sequential DEM-FEM simulation of the shot peening process: the residual stress state in the vicinity of the edge”. The prize is reserved to papers whose authors are exclusively PhD and post-doctoral students.