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Application deadline: 31 October 2025
Winner announcement: 31 December 2025
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Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Prajwal MohanMurthy
MIT, USA
Award Committee
Dr. Sergey Odintsov
Chairman
ICE and ICREA, Barcelona
Dr. Calogero Vetro
Dr. Markus Meringer
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Prof. Dr. Qing-Wen Wang
Shanghai University
Prof. Stefano Profumo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Dr. Vasilis Oikonomou
Prof. Dr. Jie Yang
Winner
Kerlos Atia Abdalmalak Dawoud
Carlos III Universidad de Madrid, Spain
Mario A. Aguirre-López
Autonomous University of Chiapas, Spain
Award Committee
Dr. Sergey Odintsov
Chairman
ICE and ICREA, Barcelona
Dr. Calogero Vetro
Dr. Mariano Torrisi
University of Catania
Dr. Markus Meringer
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Prof. Dr. György Keglevich
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Dr. Chunbiao Li
Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
Dr. Vasilis Oikonomou
Winner
José María
Virtual Morphology Laboratory (ViMoLab) , Spain
Naser Ojaroudi Parchin
university of bradford, UK
Award Committee
Dr. Sergey Odintsov
Chairman
ICE and ICREA, Barcelona
Prof. Juan Luis García Guirao
Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
Prof. Shin'ichi Nojiri
Nagoya University
Winner
Ekaterina V. Malyshko
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Hiroki Sakamoto
Hiroshima University, Japan
Winner
Martiros Khurshudyan
Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics, Russia
Vasilisa Nikiforova
Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia
Winner
Masashi Yamazaki
Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University, Japan
Ekaterina Pozdeeva
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Juliane Fonseca de Oliveira
University of Porto, Portugal
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