Stefania Salvadori, NOVA post-doctoral fellowship at the Kapteyn Institute, has been awarded the Livio Gratton prize for her PhD Thesis on "Stellar archeology: from first stars to dwarf galaxies". The Livio Gratton prize is awarder every two years by an international committee to a young astronomer who has presented the best Doctoral Dissertation in Astronomy from an Italian University. The award ceremony will take place in Frascati, Rome, on the 24th of September 2011.