Florentina Ionela Bucur, who is the youngest member of our team, was doubled awarded at the Scientific Conference of Doctoral Schools - Perspectives and challenges in doctoral research (Galati, 13-14 June 2019) for her contribution to the research that was orally presented under the title “Listeria monocytogenes Survival and Recovery Capacity in Cucumber Juice after High Pressure Treatment” (see the abstract at http://www.cssd-udjg.ugal.ro/index.php/abstracts-2019).

The awards she received are The 1^st Prize of the Section 3 of the conference (Progress in science, engineering and management of agriculture and food bio-resources, subsection Food science and engineering of bio-resources) and the “Prof. G.M. Costin” Award, which was instituted by Carmen Ionela Moraru, professor at Cornell University, NY, USA, with the administrative support of The Association of Dairy Industry Specialists from Romania (ASIL), to celebrate the memory of a former professor at the Faculty of Food Science and Engineering from the “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati.