Richard Windslow and Francesca Carleo have both won best presentation awards at the International Rubber Conference 2016 held in Japan. Francesca, who is part of Dr Ettore Barbieri’s group and co-supervised by Prof. James Busfield, discussed a wide range of constitutive rubber models for use in component design. Richard, who belongs to James Busfield's group, discussed the modelling of cavitation in elastomer seals. James Busfield, who was with them in Kitakyushu, commented that with more than 90 students to choose from this year, that QMUL can be very proud of their achievement.