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Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Yaxiang Lu
Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Award Committee
Prof. Karim Zaghib
Chairperson
Prof. Pascal Venet
Université Lyon 1
Prof. Dr. Xianzhong Sun
Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr. Catia Arbizzani
University of Bologna
Dr. Douglas Ivey
Unversity of Alberta
Dr. Matthieu Dubarry
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Winner
Haegyum Kim
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Award Committee
Prof. Pascal Venet
Chairperson
Université Lyon 1
Prof. Dr. Xianzhong Sun
Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr. Torsten Brezesinski
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Dr. Catia Arbizzani
University of Bologna
Dr. Douglas Ivey
Winner
Tongchao Liu
Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Seung-Wan Song
Chairperson
Chungnam National University
Winner
Lin Ma
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Award Committee
Prof. Andreas Jossen
Chairperson
Technical University of Munich
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