MSc Chemistry student Thom Berendsen has won the Unilever Research Prize, which he received together with 2,500 euros at Unilever’s Foods Innovation Centre on 25 November. He earned the prize for his master’s thesis from his project in the group of Jörg Meyer, titled "Theoretical Study of the Vibrational Lifetime of Surface Phonons: The Rayleigh Mode of Cu(100)". Thom graduated cum laude in October 2020 and is currently working as a consultant at McKinsey & Company.