| Mr | Blessing | Taiwo | Federal University of Technology Akure | Nigeria | Engineering | Mining Engineering | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Mr | Zahid | Hussain | USTB, China | Pakistan | Engineering | Mining Engineering | Young Scientist Award | View Profile |
| Dr | abbas | khajouei Sirjani | aculty of Mining, Petroleum & Geophysics Engineering, Shahrood University of Technology | Iran | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Mining Engineering | Young Scientist Award | View Profile |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Ahmed Sobhy | Sayed Ahmed | Central Metallurgical R&D Institute | Egypt | Engineering | Mining and Mineral Processing Engineering | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Kaveh | Asgari | West Virginia University | United States | Engineering | Mining / Mineral Processing | Best Researcher Award | |
| Mr | Rajour Jumfan | Fabchi | University of Johannesburg | South Africa | Engineering | Mining | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Changtao | Wang | central south university | China | Engineering | Minerals Engineering | Young Scientist Award | |
| Mr | Fan | Huang | MNR Key Laboratory of Metallogeny and Mineral Assessment, Institute of Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences | China | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Mineralogy, petrology, economic geology | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Mohamad Reza | Samadzadeh Yazdi | Yazd University | Iran | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Mineral Processing and Hydrometalurgy | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof. Dr | RAGHUPATRUNI | BHIMA RAO | CSIR IMMT BHUBANESWAR INDIA | India | Chemical Engineering | Mineral Processing | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Mr | Mehrdad | Daviran | Amirkabir University of Technology | Iran | Engineering | Mineral exploration, Mineral prospectivity mapping, Mining Engineering | Young Scientist Award | |
| Dr | Frans | Matlakala | North-West University | South Africa | Social Sciences | Migration, mental health of youth and environmental social work | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Ms | Natalie | Chwalisz | American University | United States | Social Sciences | migration, international relations, political science, sociology, demography | Women Researcher 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 | |
| Mrs | mahin | khajehpour | University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran | Iran | Nursing and Health Professions | midwifery | Women Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Seyed Hassan | Mirhashemi | Zabol university | Iran | Environmental Science | Middle East | Best Researcher Award | |
| Mr | Nilesh | Kumar | IIT(BHU) | India | Materials Science | Microstructure based Creep and Flow stress modeling | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Liqing | Wang | School of Materials Science and Engineering, North University of China | China | Materials Science | Microstructure and mechanical properties of metallic materials | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Uday | Manda | University of Central Florida | United States | Engineering | Microscale heat transfer and fluid dynamics | Best Researcher Award | |
| Ms | Ana | Martínez Rodríguez | Queen Mary University of London | United Kingdom | Environmental Science | Microplastics | Young Scientist Award | |