We are delighted to announce that Prof Franck Vidal (STFC), whose X-ray simulation framework gVirtualXray (gVXR) is now supported by CCPi, is the winner of the paper award for tomography outreach tools for his article on “X-ray simulations with gVXR as a useful tool for education, data analysis, set-up of CT scans, and scanner development” (DOI: 10.1117/12.3025315) presented at SPIE Optics & Photonics 2024 in San Diego. There were 84 oral and poster contributions accepted this year and 64 papers could be published in the SPIE volume of the conference series Developments in X-ray Tomography. Franck’s article provided an overview on the use of gVXR by the computed tomography community. It has been used in a wide range of applications, including teaching particle physics and x-ray imaging to undergraduate students in engineering, and XCT to master students, predicting image quality and artifacts in material science, automatically optimising the acquisition geometry, etc. It has also been used to produce a high number of realistic simulated images in optimization problems and to train machine learning algorithms.