Congratulations to Zofia Chomoncik, winner of the SAS Travel Award for Young Researchers in Archaeometry 2025, which took place October 14-17 2025 in Budapest! Zofia is a master’s student at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her presentation “Unchanging tastes: Material choices in Hellenistic and Roman storage vessels from Nea Paphos” investigated technological decisions made by potters at Nea Paphos, Cyprus. She focused on storage vessels—Greek pithoi and Roman dolia. Based on petrographic analysis of ceramic fragments excavated by the Polish Archaeological Mission (Maloutena and Agora), Zofia examined how material choices reflected both intentional technological practice and local geological conditions. Contrary to expectations of diverse clay usage, her study revealed a strong reliance on a single clay source, even when alternatives were available. She also explored the ambiguous role of mudstone as the dominant inclusion, highlighting the balance between environmental constraints, tradition, and innovation in ancient pottery production. Congratulations, Zofia!