| Dr | Janire | Gordon Isasi | Universidad de Deusto | Spain | Other | Marketing | Excellence in Research |
| Dr | Edina | Rusen | University Politehnica Bucharest | Romania | Other | Polymers | Welding Technology Innovation Award |
| Dr | Bashar | Almansour | Muscat University | Oman | Evaluation | Market Spillover Dynamics | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | FARAZ | Tariq | GLA University | India | Residual Stress | construction materials exposed to fire | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Tian | Su | Shandong University of Technology | China | Residual Stress | Bonding surface between steel bar and concrete | Young Scientist Award |
| Dr | Subhajit | Mondal | National Institute of Technology Rourkela | India | Welding processes | FRP lap splices using CNTs and its probabilistic modelling | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Abdulla | Al Darayseh | Emirates college for advanced Education | United Arab Emirates | Other | Science Education | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | velrajkumar | g | Easwari Engineering College | India | Welding processes | Steel concrete composite | Young Scientist Award |
| Dr | Maryam | Khanian | University | Australia | Neural network applications | Natural Language Processing | Women Researcher Award |
| Dr | Mahasweta | Mandal | Jadavpur University | India | Other | Printing and packaging Industry | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Ali | Hashemi | Education | Iran | Evaluation | Appraisal evaluation | Excellence in Research |
| Dr | JORGE | FERNANDEZ | UNICAMP | Brazil | Simulation Sensing and Monitoring | Hybrid Dielectric Plasmonic Waveguide | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Nikita | Martyushev | Tomsk Polytechnic University | Russia | Process Electrical Resistance Welding Electronic Packaging and Reliability Nano | Electric contact welding of rails | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Cyrus | Amini | university of Tabriz | Iran | Welding Processes | friction stir welding | Excellence in Research |
| Dr | Murali Mohan | Cheepu | Starwelds Inc | South Korea | Welding processes | TIG Welding / Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing | Innovations in Welding Research Award |
| Dr | Valeryi | Kostin | E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute | Ukraine | Microstructure-property relationships | Materials Science | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | ARGELIA FABIOLA | MIRANDA PEREZ | Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla | Mexico | Phase transformations in weldments | Automatización de procesos | Women Researcher Award |
| Dr | Shengbin | Zhao | Soochow University | China | Advanced welding | laser welding and additive manufacturing | Best 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 |
| Dr | Olga | Łastowska | Gdynia Maritime University | Poland | Welding processes | Post-weld finishing | Innovations in Welding Research Award |