| Dr | Victor | Omollo | Kenya Medical Research Institute | Kenya | Health Professions | HIV prevention research | Young Scientist Award | |
| Mrs | Clarissa | Campos | Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco - UFRPE | Brazil | Engineering | Fisheriesengineering / Aquaculture / SustainableAquaculture | Young Scientist Award | |
| Dr | Andika | Wahab | Institute of Malaysian & International Studies (IKMAS), National University of Malaysia (UKM) | Malaysia | Social Sciences | Migration and human rights | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof. Dr | Silvia | Bianchini | University of Firenze | Italy | Environmental Science | Geohazard | Best Researcher Award | |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Huan-Feng | Duan | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong | Engineering | Civil Engineering | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Teng | Zhang | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | Medicine and Dentistry | Orthopaedics and Traumatology | Young Scientist Award | |
| Dr | OSCAR | GUADARRAMA PÉREZ | Universidad Politécnica del Estado de Morelos | Mexico | Engineering | Environmental Technology | Young Scientist Award | |
| Ms | Xiaofan | Wei | University of Florida | United States | Social Sciences | Advertising | Young Scientist Award | |
| Dr | Mesafint Molla | Adane | Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia | Ethiopia | Health Professions | Environmental Health | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | SOMNATH | DE | Indian Institute of Technology Madras | India | Engineering | Gas turbine combustion instabilities, Control of flame blowout,Premixed and partially premixed combustion, Binary cyclone interactions | Young Scientist Award | |
| Dr | Anna | Pham | Department of National Defence | Canada | Psychology | Forensic Psychology | Young Scientist Award | |
| Dr | Izhar Ahmed | khan | NUAA | China | Computer Science | Cyber Security and Machine Learning | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Richard | Cebula | George Mason University | United States | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | Business, Management and Accounting | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Maria | Ketzmerick | University of Bayreuth | Germany | Social Sciences | Peace and Conflict Studies | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Daniele | Comberiati | Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 | France | Arts and Humanities | Comics - Bandes dessinées | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Arun Kumar | Thakur | ICFRE | India | Environmental Science | Biodiversity, Ecology | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Kong | Yue | Nanjing Tech University | China | Materials Science | No.30 Puzhu Road (S), Nanjing, China | Best Researcher Award | |
| Ms | Tianyuan | Wei | Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Petroleum Geology; Geochemistry | Best Researcher Award | |
| Ms | Veronika | Dashuber | QAware GmbH | Germany | Computer Science | Software Visualization | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof Dr | Muhammad | Mohsin | University of the Punjab | Pakistan | Other | Applied Statistics | Best Researcher Award | |