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