| Dr | Manuel | Salinas-Navarro | University of Murcia | Spain | Research Excellence Award | inventionawards.org |
| Dr | Andrea | Benedetti | EOC | Switzerland | Research Excellence Award | inventionawards.org |
| Dr | Shanen | Emmanuel | Somerset Foundation Trust | United Kingdom | Research Excellence Award | inventionawards.org |
| Dr | Sanghyeok | Woo | Aptamer Sciences Inc. | South Korea | Research Excellence Award | inventionawards.org |
| Dr | Zahraa | Alzein | University of Genova | Italy | Research Excellence Award | inventionawards.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Li | Wang | Dalian Maritime University | China | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Djamchid | ASSADI | Burgundy School of Business | France | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Vittoria | Feola | University of Padua | Italy | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Xiangping | Zhai | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | China | Excellence in Applied Sciences Award | inventionawards.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Yousef | Bin Jardan | King Saud University | Saudi Arabia | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Man Ho | Chan | The Education University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Feng | Zhao | Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | zhangbao | xu | Fuyang Normal University | China | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Sicong | Zhu | Wuhan University of Science and Technology | China | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Elena | Baldi | Università di Bologna | Italy | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Larisa | Ivanescu | Iasi University of Life Scoences Ion Ionescu de la Brad | Romania | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Mauro | Maniscalco | University Federico II of Naples | Italy | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Arne | Lowden | Stockholm University | Sweden | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Zhangxin (Frank) | Liu | The University of Western Australia | Australia | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Lanjiao | Wen | Huazhong Agricultural University | China | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |