The IFAC Young Author Award of the 17^th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems (CTS 2024) was awarded to the TrafficFluid PhD student Niloufar Dabestani for the paper: Dabestani, N., Typaldos, P., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: Joint vehicle path planning for interruptible 1-D snake-like platoons and 2-D flocks in lane-free traffic, 7^th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems (CTS 2024), Ayia Napa, Cyprus, July 1-3, 2024. The award was presented to her on 2 July 2024, during the Conference banquet. Congratulation Niloufar!