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We are pleased to announce the winners of the Applied Sciences 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Applied Sciences Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Applied Sciences. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.
Khaled Giasin School of Mechanical and Design Engineering, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
Jakub Krzysztof Grabski Institute of Applied Mechanics, University of Technology, Poznań, Poland
Marcos Tostado-Véliz Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Jaén, Linares, Spain
Luigi Pugliese Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calabria, Rende, Cosenza, Italy
Francesco Bennardo Department of Health Sciences, University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
Heriberto Perez-Acebo Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and an opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in 2022.
On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all winners for their contributions to Applied Sciences and the Award Committee for voting and helping with these awards.
Prof. Dr. Takayoshi Kobayashi Editor-in-Chief, Applied Sciences
Applied Sciences 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award
Eligibility and Selection Criteria
– All of the reviewers for Applied Sciences in 2021 will be automatically included. – Number of review reports; – The quality and timeliness of review reports.
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Cheonshik Kim
Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Galina Ilieva
Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Katarzyna Peta
Poznan University of Technology, Poznań, Poland
Marco Zucca
Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Georgi Gary Rozenman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Igor Vujović
University of Split, Split, Croatia
Award Committee
Prof. Giulio Cerullo
Chairman
Politecnico di Milano
Winner
Basilio Pueo
University Institute for Computing Research, Faculty of Education. University of Alicante, Spain
Khader Hamdia
Institute of Continuum Mechanics, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Alberto Fernández-Isabel
Research Group of Foundations and Applications of Data Science, Rey Juan Carlos University Madrid, 28933 Móstoles, Madrid, Spain
Jarosław Rybak
Faculty of Civil Engineering, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Giuseppe Ciaburro
Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Aversa, Italy
Maria Luisa Villani
ENEA-Centro Ricerche Casaccia, Via Anguillarese 301, 00123 Rome, Italy
Winner
Gabor Sziebig
UIT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
Hojong Choi
Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea
Aryan Rezaei Rad
EPFL ENAC IIC IBOIS, Switzerland
Ali Behnood
Purdue University, USA
Andreas Hoffmann
Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany
Prof. Douglas O’Shaughnessy
Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Canada
Winner
Ali Behnood
Purdue University, USA
Antonio D’Andrea
University of Rome, Italy
Antolino Gallego
Universidad de Granada, Spain
Carmelo Militello
Italian National Research Council, Rome (CNR), Italy
