| Prof Dr | Serdar | Altin | Inonu university | Turkey | Evaluation | Battery electrodes | Top Researcher Award |
| Prof Dr | Lakhdar | Taleb | INSA of Rouen, France | France | Modeling Welding Strength | Mechanical Consequences of phase changes/mechanics of materials | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Frédéric | LACHAUD | Institut Clément Ader | France | Other | Damage, Failure, Bio-Composite | Top Researcher Award |
| Dr | Viktoriia | Talaniuk | Institute of electrowelding by E.O. Patona. Kiev. Ukraine | Ukraine | Joining of advanced materials | Development of Polyhydroxybutyrate-Based Packaging Films and Methods to Their Ultrasonic Welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Lei | Guo | Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Admin | China | Joining of advanced materials | Steel-Concrete Composite Structures; Enerdy Dissipation Device | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Marta | Buszko | Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences | Poland | Microstructure-property relationships | Material degradation | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Pavel | Arkhipov | Institute of High Temperature Electrochemistry of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences | Russia | Other | alloys formation | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Narottam | Acharya | Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India | India | Other | Life Sciences | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Chenwei | Shao | Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Microstructure-property relationships | Fatigue and Fracture | Young Scientist Award |
| Dr | Maryam | ABDOLAHPOUR SALARI | Institute of Science and Technology | Turkey | Solid state welding | Electronic devices | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Milton Sergio | Fernandes de Lima | Instituto de Estudos Avancados | Brazil | Advanced welding | Lasers | Lifetime Achievement Award |
| Dr | Manjusha | Battabyal | International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), India | India | Microjoining Process Diffusion Bonding | Thermoelectric device, contact resistance, device efficiency, transport properties, electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy | Best Researcher Award |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Ramin | Hashemi | Iran University of Science and Technology | Iran | Welding Processes | Friction stir welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Sajjad | Barzegar-Mohammadi | Iran University of Science and Technology | Iran | Welding Processes | effect of treatment techniques on fatigue life | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Rouholah | Ashiri | Iran University of Science and Technology | Iran | Microstructure-property relationships | Welding Metallurgy | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Mahboubeh | Rostami | Isfahan University of Mecical Sciences | Iran | Other | novel anti-cancer agents | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Behzad | Sadeghian | Isfahan University of Technology | Iran | Solid state welding | Numerical simulation of friction stir welding microstructure using phase-field method | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Afsaneh | Valipouri | Isfahan University of Technology | Iran | Other | Development and optimization of the novel scale-up fabrication method of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) microparticles | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Gürel | ÇAM | Iskenderun Technical University | Turkey | Welding Processes | public university | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Ali | Heidary Moghadam | Islamic Azad University | Iran | Friction welding | FSSW (friction stir spot welding) | Best Researcher Award |