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Universe 2023 Outstanding Reviewer Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Kazuharu Bamba
Fukushima University, Japan
Denis Leahy
University of Calgary, Canada
Award Committee
Dr. Lorenzo Iorio
Chairman
MIUR
Winner
Øyvind Grøn
Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
Vittorio De Falco
Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic
Winner
Kazuharu Bamba
Fukushima University, Japan
Szymon Piotr Harabasz
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Dominik Elsaesser
TU Dortmund Germany, Germany
Jose A.R. Cembranos
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Viktor Toth
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
Amit Kashi
University of Ariel, Israel
Vitor De Souza
Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP, Brazil
Isaac Tutusaus
CSIC - Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (ICE), Spain
Theocharis Kosmas
University of Ioannina, Greece
Przemyslaw Malkiewicz
National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland
Winner
Sunny Vagnozzi
University of Cambridge, UK
Aharon Davidson
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Zhoujian Cao
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ramona Vogt
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Daniele Gregoris
Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, China
Alexei A. Starobinsky
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russia
Tiberiu Harko
University College London, UK
Andrey A. Grib
Herzen State Pedagogical University, Russia
Martin Bojowald
Penn State University, USA
Kazuharu Bamba
Fukushima University, Japan
Winner
Lorenzo Iorio
Ministero dell’Universita e della Ricerca, Mexico
Oleg Tsupko
Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Irina Dymnikova
Uniwersytet Warminsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie, Poland
Volker Perlick
University of Bremen, Germany
Kazuharu Bamba
Fukushima University, Japan
Matthias Bartelmann
Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Winner
Ivan Arraut
The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Martin Bojowald
Pennsylvania State University, USA
Peter Millington
The University of Nottingham, UK
Kimball Milton
The University of Oklahoma, USA
Lijing Shao
Peking University, China
Douglas Singleton
California State University, USA
Winner
Júlio César Fabris
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
Lorenzo Iorio
dell’ Università e della Ricerca (M.I.U.R.)-Istruzione, Italy
Roman Pasechnik
Lund University, Sweden
Saeed Mirshekari
ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, Brazil
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