Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Symmetry 2024 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in Symmetry from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. Two reviews and two research articles will receive an award each. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the Journal Award Committee led by the Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria:
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

The Prizes:
– Two review awards: CHF 400 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Symmetry in 2024 after peer review;
– Two research article awards: CHF 500 CHF and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Symmetry in 2024 after peer review;
– Each winner will also receive a certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in March 2024.

Kind regards,
Symmetry Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Symmetry will be granting the Travel Award to two junior scientists. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Symmetry Editorial Board.

This award provides financial support for the winners to attend an international conference to be held in 2024 in the field of symmetry/asymmetry phenomena in any scientific discipline and deliver a presentation, present a poster, or both.

Candidate Requirements:
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students.
– Plans to attend an international conference in 2024 (oral presentation or poster).

Required Application Documents:
– Information of the conference that the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted.
– Curriculum vitae and list of publications.
– Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words).
– Letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director, or department head, which also confirms the applicant’s status as a postdoctoral fellow/PhD student.

The winners (two awardees) will each be awarded CHF 800 and a certificate.

Please submit your applications for the Symmetry 2024 Travel Award online by 31 December 2023. The prizes will be awarded at the end of March 2024 and announced on the Symmetry website.

Kind regards,
Symmetry Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously offer their time to review the papers submitted to Symmetry by presenting an award to the reviewers who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for Symmetry.

What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for this award?
– All of the reviewers for Symmetry in 2023 will be automatically included.

Selection Criteria:
– Number of review reports;
– The quality and timeliness of review reports.

What will the winners receive?
There will be two winners this year, and each will receive the following:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in 2024 after peer review in Symmetry;
– A certificate.

When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced at the end of February on the journal website.

How can I make myself eligible?
If you have not yet reviewed papers for Symmetry, but would like to do so,
you can register as a reviewer at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Kind regards,
Symmetry Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

The journal Symmetry is inviting applications for the Symmetry 2023 Best PhD Thesis Award. This prize will be awarded to a PhD student or recently qualified PhD who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential. The applications will be assessed by an evaluation committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov.

Eligibility and Requirements:
– The candidate must be a PhD student or recently qualified PhD who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential;
– The PhD thesis must be their original work;
– The PhD thesis must be defended in 2023.

Required Application Documents:
– An executive summary of the PhD thesis in English of around 3000 words;
– A letter from the PhD supervisor recommending the candidate for consideration for this award;
– The candidate’s CV, including a list of publications connected with the thesis;
– An electronic copy of the PhD thesis;
– A scanned copy of the PhD diploma (or certificate of studying at a school or research institute as a PhD student going to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses).

Selection Criteria:
– Quality of resume and publications;
– Relevance of the candidate and research description;
– Novelty of the candidate’s PhD thesis;
– Strength of the recommendation letter;
– Anticipated academic potential;
– Originality and impact of the research.

Prizes:
– Bonus (CHF 800);
– Certificate;
– Offer to publish one paper free of charge in Symmetry after peer review before the end of 2024.

The application deadline is 31 January 2024. The winner will be announced on the Symmetry website by the end of April 2024.

Kind regards,
Symmetry Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Symmetry is now inviting nominations for the Symmetry 2023 Young Investigator Award. This prize will be given to one young investigator in recognition of their excellence in the field of symmetry/asymmetry phenomena wherever they occur in all aspects of natural sciences. All nominations will be assessed by an Award Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Sergei Odintsov.

The Prize:
– CHF 2000;
– Option to publish one paper free of charge in Symmetry after peer review before the end of 31 December 2024;
– An electronic certificate.

Eligibility and Requirements:
– Must have received their PhD no more than 10 years prior to 31 December 2023;
– Must have produced ground-breaking research and made a significant contribution to the advancement of symmetry/asymmetry phenomena;
– Candidates must be nominated by senior scientists.

List of Documents for Nomination:
– Detailed Curriculum Vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants;
– Scanned copy of doctorate certificate;
– Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists.

Schedule:
– Open for nomination: 16 January 2023
– Nomination deadline: 31 October 2023
– Winner announcement: 31 December 2023

How to Submit Nominations?
The nominations must be submitted online.

Contact
Ms. Kira Yang
Marketing Specialist
Email: [email protected]

Kind regards,
Symmetry Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

The editorial team would like to congratulate the winners of the Symmetry 2023 Best Paper Award, who were chosen by a selection committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Professor Sergei D. Odintsov. Following a review process by the Award Evaluation Committee, four winners were selected.

Article: CHF 500 plus a paper published free of charge after peer review in Symmetry in 2023

1: General Fractional Integrals and Derivatives of Arbitrary Order
By Yuri Luchko
Symmetry 2021, 13(5), 755; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13050755

2: Higgs and BSM Physics at the Future Muon Collider
By Roberto Franceschini and Mario Greco
Symmetry 2021, 13(5), 851; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13050851

Review: CHF 400 plus a paper free of charge after peer review in Symmetry in 2023

1. Nanofluids for the Next Generation Thermal Management of Electronics: A Review
By Ana Moita, António Moreira and José Pereira
Symmetry 2021, 13(8), 1362; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13081362

2. Collider Searches for Dark Matter through the Higgs Lens
By Spyros Argyropoulos, Oleg Brandt and Ulrich Haisch
Symmetry 2021, 13(12), 2406; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13122406

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Symmetry 2023 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Symmetry.

Kind regards,
Symmetry Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Symmetry 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Symmetry Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Symmetry. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Prof. Dr. Lorentz Jäntschi

Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Research Interest: applied mathematics; applied informatics; molecular modeling; molecular topology; chemistry; symmetry

Prof. Dr. Maria Alessandra Ragusa

Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy

Research Interest: fractional derivative; applied sciences; biomathematics

The Prize for Each Winner:

– CHF 500;

– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Symmetry in 2023 after peer review;

– A certificate.

Kind regards,
Symmetry Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Symmetry, it is my great pleasure to announce the winner of the 2022 Best PhD Thesis Award. This award is for a PhD student or recently qualified PhD who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential.

The award has been granted to:

“Integrability of Dynamical Systems: A Geometrical Viewpoint” by Antonios Mitsopoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

The winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate and a chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review in Symmetry in 2023.

On behalf of the evaluation committee, I would like to congratulate Antonios Mitsopoulos on his accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the applicants for submitting their exceptional theses and thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov
Editor-in-Chief, Symmetry

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Symmetry 2022 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Yao Chen.

Dr. Yao Chen (Researcher Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany, Jiangsu Province 333 High-Level Talents of China, and Zhongying Young Scholar at Southeast University of China) is a Professor of the School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. His research interests are symmetry analysis using group theory and graph products, novel prestressed structures (e.g., cable-strut, origami, and deployable structures), and computational methods for engineering structures. Dr. Yao Chen received his PhD in 2014 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 26 patents, and his Hirsch index is 24. He has been selected in Stanford University’s list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists, 2021. Dr. Yao Chen won the 10th Hangai Prize of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, and the Editor’s Choice Award of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. This is an outstanding achievement in today’s competitive environment. He is clearly a rising star in the field of symmetry and novel prestressed structures. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Yao Chen for his outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, Dr. Yao Chen will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before the end of 2023 in Symmetry after peer-review, and an electronic certificate.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov,
Editor-in-Chief, Symmetry

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Symmetry 2022 Best Paper Award. All papers published in Symmetry from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the four winning papers, which were nominated by the journal Award Committee led by the Editor in Chief, Prof. Sergei Odintsov, have been selected.

Two Reviews

1. On the Remarkable Superconductivity of FeSe and Its Close Cousins
By Andreas Kreisel, Peter J. Hirschfeld and Brian M. Andersen
Symmetry 2020, 12(9), 1402; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12091402

2. Bilaterally Symmetrical: To Be or Not to Be?
By Michael C. Corballis
Symmetry 2020, 12(3), 326; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12030326

Each winner of which will receive CHF 300 and a chance to publish a free paper in Symmetry in 2022.

Two Research Articles:

3. Are MCDA Methods Benchmarkable? A Comparative Study of TOPSIS, VIKOR, COPRAS, and PROMETHEE II Methods
By Wojciech Sałabun, Jarosław Wątróbski and Andrii Shekhovtsov
Symmetry 2020, 12(9), 1549; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12091549

4. Empirical Consequences of Emergent Mass
By Craig D. Roberts
Symmetry 2020, 12(9), 1468; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12091468

Each winner of which will receive CHF 400 and a chance to publish a free paper in Symmetry in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Symmetry, and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Prof. Sergei Odintsov
Editor-in-Chief, Symmetry

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Symmetry 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Symmetry Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Symmetry. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Stefan Groote
Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, W. Oswaldi 1, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
Research interests: Gauge theories; chaotic systems; elementary particle physics

Prof. Dr. José Antonio Oller
Departamento de Física, Universidad de Murcia, E-30071 Murcia, Spain
Research interests: theoretical nuclear and particle physics: effective field theories of QCD in vacuum and in a nuclear environment both in the perturbative and non-perturbative regimes; meson–meson, meson–baryon, and nucleon–nucleon production and scattering; hadron spectroscopy

Prof. Dr. Kazuharu Bamba
Division of Human Support System, Faculty of Symbiotic Systems Science, Fukushima University, Fukushima 960-1296, Japan
Research interests: particle cosmology; gravity theory

Each winner will receive the following:
– 500 Swiss francs;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Symmetry within 2022;
– A certificate.

Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov
Editor-in-Chief, Symmetry

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Symmetry 2021 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Tanmoy Paul.

Dr. Tanmoy Paul, a Research Associate of the University of Burdwan, India, and an external researcher of the International Laboratory for Theoretical Cosmology, Russia, works in the fields of cosmology and classical as well as quantum aspects of gravity. He did his MSc in physics at Jadavpur University (2011–2013) and his PhD in theoretical physics at IACS (2013–2019). As of now, he has been awarded four national fellowships with noticeable ranks all over India (rank seven, rank six, etc.) and two international fellowships.

He is clearly a rising star in the field of symmetry phenomena. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Tanmoy Paul for his outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, Dr. Tanmoy Paul will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before the end of 2022 in Symmetry after peer review, and an engraved plaque.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov
Editor-in-Chief, Symmetry

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Symmetry, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Symmetry Travel Award for 2021.

The awards have been granted to: Mr. José María, a PhD student in biology, working on the “Applications of Geometric Morphometrics in the diagnosis and conservative treatment of Adolescent Idiophatic Scoliosis” at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, and Dr. Naser Ojaroudi Parchin, a research assistant and PhD fellow at the Faculty of Engineering and Informatics, University of Bradford, UK. Each winner will receive 800 CHF.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Dear Colleagues,

As the editor-in-chief of Symmetry, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Symmetry 2021 Best Paper Awards.

The awards have been granted to:

Two Reviews:
Paper Title: Hadronic and Hadron-Like Physics of Dark Matter
Authors: Vitaly Beylin, Maxim Yu. Khlopov, Vladimir Kuksa and Nikolay Volchanskiy
Symmetry 2019, 11(4), 587; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11040587

Paper Title: Role of Asymmetric Autocatalysis in the Elucidation of Origins of Homochirality of Organic Compounds
Authors: Kenso Soai, Tsuneomi Kawasaki and Arimasa Matsumoto
Symmetry 2019, 11(5), 694; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11050694

Two Research Articles:
Paper Title: Convenient Asymmetric Synthesis of Fmoc-(S)-6,6,6-Trifluoro-Norleucine
Authors: Haibo Mei, Zizhen Yin, Toshio Miwa, Hiroki Moriwaki, Hidenori Abe, Jianlin Han and Vadim A. Soloshonok
Symmetry 2019, 11(4), 578; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11040578

Paper Title: CMB Tensions with Low-Redshift H0 and S8 Measurements: Impact of a Redshift-Dependent Type-Ia Supernovae Intrinsic Luminosity
Authors: Matteo Martinelli and Isaac Tutusaus
Symmetry 2019, 11(8), 986; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11080986

Two review and two research articles (each corresponding authors) will receive a bonus based on the award class:
– Best Review Award: 300 CHF
– Best Research Article Award: 400 CHF

Please note that, four review and four research articles have been selected for this award. The rest of the winners will receive a certificate and an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Symmetry following the normal peer-review procedure in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Symmetry, and thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with these awards.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov, Symmetry

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Symmetry 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Awards. The journal Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Symmetry. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

Dr. Akira Otsuki
Affiliation: Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie, Université de Lorraine, France
Research Interest: colloid and interface science; mineral processing; recycling; material science and engineering; fluid dynamics; applied mechanics; functional materials; scattering

Prof. Dr. Kazuharu Bamba
Affiliation: Division of Human Support System, Faculty of Symbiotic Systems Science, Fukushima University, Japan
Research Interest: modified theories of gravity; dark energy; cosmology; particle-theory and field-theory models of the early universe; electric and magnetic fields; quantum aspects of black holes; evaporation; thermodynamics

Dr. Valery E. Lyubovitskij
Affiliation: Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Tübingen, Kepler Center for Astro and Particle Physics, Germany
Research Interest: AdS/QCD; effective field theories; hadron physics; physics beyond SM

Kind regards,
Editor-in-Chief, Symmetry

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Symmetry 2020 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Sunny Vagnozzi.

Dr. Sunny Vagnozzi, born in 1992 in Italy, is a Newton-Kavli Fellow at the University of Cambridge (UK). His research at the interface of cosmology, astrophysics, and particle physics has provided remarkable insight into the composition and fate of the universe. Dr. Vagnozzi received his PhD in 2019 from Stockholm University and has an outstanding publication record, comprising over 40 high-quality publications, with over 3000 citations and a Hirsch index of 31. He is widely recognized as a rising star in the field of cosmology. Despite his young age, Dr. Vagnozzi has been the recipient of several academic prizes (including the “Pio Picchi” prize from the Italian Physical Society and the Springer Thesis Award) and has been acknowledged as one of the Top Italian Scientists by the Virtual Italian Academy. In today’s competitive environment, his achievements are outstanding. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Vagnozzi on his impressive array of accomplishments.

As the awardee, Dr. Vagnozzi will receive an honorarium of 2000 CHF, the opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in the Symmetry Feature Paper Special Issue series in 2021, and an engraved plaque.

We would like to thank all the nominators from the various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominees.

Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov
Editor-in-Chief, Symmetry

Symmetry established the Best Paper Award to recognize its best published articles. The prize started in 2015 and since 2019 it has been awarded in two categories:

Best Original Research Article and Best Review Paper.

Two review and four research articles are selected for this award. Among those winners, one review and two research articles are selected to grant bonus based on the award class:

Best Review Award: 300 CHF
Symmetries in Classical and Quantum Treatment of Einstein’s Cosmological Equations and Mini-Superspace Actions
Theodosios Christodoulakis *, Alexandros Karagiorgos, Adamantia Zampeli
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/10/3/70

Best Research Article Award: 500 CHF
The Recalculation of the Weights of Criteria in MCDM Methods Using the Bayes Approach
Irina Vinogradova *, Valentinas Podvezko, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/10/6/205

Models for Green Supplier Selection with Some 2-Tuple Linguistic Neutrosophic Number Bonferroni Mean Operators
Jie Wang, Guiwu Wei *, Yu Wei *
Available online: https://doi.org/10.3390/sym10050131

One review and two research articles receive a certificate and an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Symmetry, after the normal peer-review procedure. 

Symmetries of Differential Equations in Cosmology
Michael Tsamparlis *, Andronikos Paliathanasis
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/10/7/233

The Asymmetry is Derived from Mechanical Interlocking of Achiral Axle and Achiral Ring Components –Syntheses and Properties of Optically Pure [2]Rotaxanes–
Keiji Hirose *, Masaya Ukimi, Shota Ueda, Chie Onoda, Ryohei Kano, Kyosuke Tsuda, Yuko Hinohara,  Yoshito Tobe
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/10/1/20

The Spatial Homeostasis Hypothesis
Oleg Epstein
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/10/4/103

We congratulate the winners for their significant contributions and thank them for choosing to publish their best work in Symmetry.

Symmetry was founded in 2009, and entered its first decade of publication in 2018. Symmetry is celebrating its 10th anniversary and 1000th paper published. To acknowledge authors’ continued support, we are pleased to announce the “10th Anniversary Best Paper Award”.

The following papers have been selected by the Editor-in-Chief of Symmetry, Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov, to receive “10th Anniversary Best Paper Award” for the quality of their papers. The author(s) of the awarded papers will be recognized with a certificate and an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Symmetry. Among the selected papers, one review and one article have been selected and granted 500 CHF.

Our winner and their papers are listed as follows:

John H. Graham, Shmuel Raz, Hagit Hel-Or and Eviatar Nevo Fluctuating Asymmetry: Methods, Theory, and Applications
Review (500 CHF)

Alexander Shelupanov, Oleg Evsyutin, Anton Konev, Evgeniy Kostyuchenko, Dmitry Kruchinin and Dmitry Nikiforov
Aricle (500 CHF)
Information Security Methods—Modern Research Directions

Alexander Balakin, Alexei Ilin, Anna Kotanjyan and Levon Grigoryan Relativistic Neutron Stars: Rheological Type Extensions of the Equations of State

Yi Zhong and Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez
Inflation in Mimetic f(G) Gravity

Artyom V. Yurov, and Valerian A. Yurov
The Landau-Lifshitz Equation, the NLS, and the Magnetic Rogue Wave as a By-Product of Two Colliding Regular “Positons”

Giovanni Amelino-Camelia
Doubly-Special Relativity: Facts, Myths, and Some Key Open Issues

Sergey V. Borisenko, Volodymyr B. Zabolotnyy, Alexnader A. Kordyuk, Danil V. Evtushinsky, Timur K. Kim, Igor V. Morozov, Rolf Follath and Bernd Büchner
One-Sign Order Parameter in Iron-Based Superconductor

Ewa D. Raczyńska, Małgorzata Hallman, Katarzyna Kolczyńska and Tomasz M. Stępniewski
On the Harmonic Oscillator Model of Electron Delocalization (HOMED) Index and its Application to Heteroatomic π-Electron Systems

Tomáš Brauner
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Nambu–Goldstone Bosons in Quantum Many-Body Systems

Dear readers of Symmetry,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of 2019 Symmetry Young Investigator Award is Dr. Martiros Khurshudyan. Dr. Martiros Khurshudyan joined to the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China in April 2018 for the second postdoc term. The first postdoc he had immediately after the PhD defence at TUSUR, Tomsk, Russia. Dr. Martiros Khurshudyan is the author of more than 50 papers in cosmology addressing different problems of the filed, being in a collaboration with different groups in Italy, Spain, Japan, Norway and Russia. He works on several areas of modern cosmology, theoretical and mathematical physics and Quantum Physics. His research has led to relevant and novel results in the field of cosmology and astrophysics providing new insights. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Martiros Khurshudyan for a well-deserved prize.

As the awardee, Dr. Martiros Khurshudyan will receive an honorarium of 2000 CHF, an offer to publish a paper free of charge without a fixed deadline in Symmetry, and a certificate. We would like to thank all the Award Committee members for their assiduous evaluation of the candidates and all the applicants for submitting their fascinating and diverse range of research topics.

Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov
Editor-in-Chief of Symmetry

We are pleased to announce the two winners of the "Travel Awards" for 2nd International Conference on Symmetry (Symmetry 2019):

Dr. Hiroki Sakamoto and Dr. Malyshko Ekaterina Vladimirovna

Dear Colleagues,

The Symmetry Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to the journal. It is thanks to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick submission-to-publication process are maintained. The median time from submission to first decision is 14.88 days and the median time to publication is 32 days.

The following referees have been selected by the Editor-in-Chief of Symmetry, Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov, to receive “Symmetry Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2018” for the quantity, timeliness and quality of their reviews in 2018. Each of them will receive 500 CHF, an offer to publish a Feature Paper, free of charge, in Symmetry and a certificate to recognize their outstanding work:

Prof. Janos Polonyi
Strasbourg University, France

Dr. Barbara Miroslaw
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin (UMCS), Poland

Dr. Ashkbiz Danehkar
University of Michigan, USA

Dear readers of Symmetry,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of 2018 Symmetry Young Investigator Award is Dr. Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez. Dr. Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez is a senior postdoctoral fellow at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). Dr. Sáez Gómez’s works on several areas of theoretical physics, but mainly on the development and analysis of theories beyond General Relativity, particularly on those gravitational theories that may provide an alternative explanation to the dark energy problem and also to the inflationary paradigm. His research has led to relevant and novel results in the field of theoretical physics providing new insights. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez for a well-deserved prize.

As the awardee, Dr. Sáez Gómez will receive an honorarium of 2000 CHF, an offer to publish a paper free of charge without a fixed deadline in Symmetry, and a certificate. We would like to thank all the Award Committee members for their assiduous evaluation of the candidates and all the applicants for submitting their fascinating and diverse range of research topics.

Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov
Editor-in-Chief of Symmetry

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Symmetry, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Symmetry Travel Awards for 2018:

Travel Awards were granted to Ms. Vasilisa Nikiforova, PhD student in the Physics Department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and Researcher in the Institute for Nuclear Research RAS, and to Dr. Martiros Khurshudyan, Post-doctoral fellow at the Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radio-electronics （TUSUR）. Ms. Nikiforova focuses on the research of modified gravity, more specifically, gravities with torsion. Dr. Khurshudyan is working on theoretical cosmology paying attention on the accelerated expansion of the Universe, dark energy extended/modified theories of gravity and related problems. Each Awardee received 800 Swiss Francs to attend an international conference in 2018:

Ms. Vasilisa Nikiforova presented her work entitled “Issues of dynamical torsion gravity” at the “Cosmology and the Quantum Vacuum”, which was held on 2 September 2018 in Benasque, Spain.

Dr. Martiros Khurshudyan presented his work entitled “Interacting dark energy models in light of Gaussian process” at the “IV Workshop on COSMOLOGY AND THE QUANTUM VACUUM” which was held on 2 September 2018 in Spain.

It was a very difficult decision with such high-quality applications for the awards, and we would like to thank all the applicants in various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee members for their evaluation of the abundant excellent applications. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners for their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov
Editor-in-Chief of Symmetry

The Symmetry Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to the journal. It is thanks to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick submission-to-publication process are maintained. The median time from submission to first decision is 25 days and the median time to publication is 42 days.

The following referees have been selected by the Editor-in-Chief of Symmetry, Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov, to receive “Symmetry 2017 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness and quality of their reviews in 2017. Each of them will receive 500 CHF, an offer to publish a Feature Paper, free of charge, in Symmetry and a certificate to recognize their outstanding work:

Prof. Dr. Volker Schurig
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany

Dr. Gyorgy Szekely
The University of Manchester, UK

Prof. José L. Cortés
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Symmetry established the Best Paper Award to recognize its best published articles. The prize started in 2015 and since 2017 it has been awarded in two categories:

Best Original Research Article and Best Review Paper.

Nominations were selected by the Editorial Office of Symmetry based on the number of citations and downloads in 2017 from the website with all research articles published in 2015 and 2016 eligible for consideration.

The selection committee is chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov, and supported by Prof. Dr. Emilio Elizalde, Prof. Dr. Karl Grammer, Prof. Dr. Stephen Anco and Dr. Alice Miller. They examined each paper and have expressed their preferences in the ranking of the “Symmetry Best Paper Award” 2017.

Original Research Article Award:
Probing Majorana Neutrinos and their CP Violation in Decays of Charged Scalar Mesons π, K, D, Ds, B, Bc
Gorazd Cvetič, Claudio O. Dib, Choong Sun Kim, and Jilberto Zamora-Saá
Symmetry 2015, 7(2), 726–773; doi:10.3390/sym7020726
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/7/2/726

Review Paper Award:
Inflationary Cosmology in Modified Gravity Theories
Kazuharu Bamba and Sergei D. Odintsov
Symmetry 2015, 7(1), 220–240; doi:10.3390/sym7010220
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/7/1/220

These two papers are valuable contributions to Symmetry. On behalf of the Symmetry Best Paper Award Committee and the Editorial Board of Symmetry, I congratulate the winners for their significant contributions and thank them for choosing to publish their best work in Symmetry. In recognition of their accomplishments, Dr. Choong Sun Kim and Dr. Kazuharu Bamba will be awarded the privilege of publishing an additional research paper, with all publication fees waived, in Open Access format in Symmetry, after the standard peer-review procedure. Each winner will additionally receive a bonus based on the award class:

• Best Original Research Article Award: 500 CHF
• Best Review Paper Award: 300 CHF

Dear readers of Symmetry,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Travel Awards for The First International Conference on Symmetry 2017.

The awards are granted to Mr. Masashi Yamazaki, PhD student from Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University, Japan; Dr. Ekaterina Pozdeeva, postdoctoral researcher at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia; and to Dr. Juliane Fonseca de Oliveira, postdoctoral researcher at University of Porto, Portugal.

Mr. Masashi Yamazaki, PhD student, is the co-author of the paper “Relativistic Stars in de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley Massive Gravity” published in 2016 in Physical Review D. Dr. Ekaterina Pozdeeva is the author of more than 30 research articles, such as ”Possible evolution of a bouncing universe in cosmological models with non-minimally coupled scalar fields” published in 2016 in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Dr. Juliane Fonseca de Oliveira is a researcher who published a paper entitled “Hexagonal Projected Symmetries” in Acta Crystallographica in 2015. Each winner will receive 500 Euros with a certificate and a waiver of registration fees for the Symmetry 2017 conference. We congratulate them all on their valuable scientific contributions and would also like to thank all applicants for the very diverse and interesting submissions.

Prof. Dr. Sergei D. Odintsov
Editor in Chief and Chairman of the Conference Symmetry 2017