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Winner
Albrecht Classen
University of Arizona, USA
Ritesh Chimoriya
University of Sydney, Australia
Award Committee
Prof. Raffaele Barretta
Chairperson
University of Naples Federico II
Prof. Harry H.X. Wang
Sun Yat-Sen University
Prof. Dr. Sandro Serpa
University of the Azores
Dr. Milva Pepi
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Winner
Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco
Catholic University of Sacred Hearth, Italy / Durham University, UK
Ioannis Passas
Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece
Award Committee
Prof. Raffaele Barretta
Chairperson
University of Naples Federico II
Prof. Harry H.X. Wang
Sun Yat-Sen University
Prof. Dr. Sandro Serpa
University of the Azores
Dr. Milva Pepi
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Winner
Robert Friedman
Retired from Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Jude Okolie
Gallogly College of Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Award Committee
Prof. Raffaele Barretta
Chairperson
University of Naples Federico II
Prof. Dr. Sandro Serpa
University of the Azores
Dr. Milva Pepi
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Prof. Harry H.X. Wang
Sun Yat-Sen University
Prof. Dr. Ali Bahadori-Jahromi
University of West London
Winner
Bjørn Grinde
Division of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, N-0213 Oslo, Norway
Bo-Wen Shen
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA
Award Committee
Prof. Raffaele Barretta
Chairperson
University of Naples Federico II
Dr. Moran Amit
1979
Dr. Jandro Abot
Dr. Milva Pepi
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Prof. Dr. Sandro Serpa
University of the Azores
Winner
Carmen S.R. Freire
CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Award Committee
Prof. Raffaele Barretta
Chairperson
University of Naples Federico II
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