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Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Nikolay Kornienko
Universite de Montreal, QC, Canada
Award Committee
Prof. Mark von Itzstein
Chairman
Griffith University
Prof. Ying-Wei Yang
Jilin University
Dr. Maurizio Peruzzini
ICCOM CNR
Prof. Dr. Igor V. Alabugin
Prof. Hiroyuki Kataoka
Shujitsu University
Winner
Cesar de la Fuente
University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Award Committee
Prof. Farid Chemat
Chairman
université d'Avignon
Prof. Ying-Wei Yang
Jilin University
Prof. Dr. Igor V. Alabugin
Prof. Dr. Michal Szostak
Dr. Daniel Cozzolino
University of Queensland
Dr. Maurizio Peruzzini
ICCOM CNR
Prof. Dr. Huan Pang
Yangzhou University
Dr. Myung Hwan Whangbo
North Carolina State University
Prof. Francesco Cacciola
University of Messina
Prof. Dr. Xueguang Shao
Nankai University
Prof. Qian Chen
Soochow University
Dr. Ildiko Badea
University of Saskatchewan
Prof. Dr. Josef Jampilek
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University
Prof. Maria Camilla Bergonzi
University of Florence
Prof. Hiroyuki Kataoka
Shujitsu University
Winner
Biplab Maji
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India
Award Committee
Prof. Farid Chemat
Chairman
université d'Avignon
Dr. PAULA BERTON
Dr. Munkhbayar Batmunkh
Griffith University
Dr. Jon Sperry
Prof. Ramesh L. Gardas
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Dr. Łukasz Chrzanowski
Poznan University of Technology
Prof. Lakshmi Kotra
University of Toronto
Dr. Alice L. Perez
University of Costa Rica
Prof. Ashok Kakkar
McGill University
Dr. Kok Hwa Lim
Winner
Carles Galdeano
University of Barcelona, Spain
Award Committee
Dr. Derek McPhee
Chairman
MDPI
Prof. Roman Dembinski
Oakland University
Dr. Myung Hwan Whangbo
North Carolina State University
Prof. Mark von Itzstein
Griffith University
Prof. Farid Chemat
université d'Avignon
Winner
Paul McGonigal
Durham University, UK
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