| Prof. | Richard | Minnitt | School of Mining Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand | Research Excellence Award | South Africa | View Profile |
| Dr | Dumitru | Mitrica | Research and Development Institute for Nonferrous and Rare Metals - IMNR | Research Excellence Award | Romania | View Profile |
| Mr. | Aliakbar | Monfared | Sharif University of Technology | Surface Engineering Award | Iran | View Profile |
| Dr | Girija | Moona | CSIR-NPL India | Women Researcher Award | India | View Profile |
| Dr | Javier | Morán Martínez | Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila Unidad Lagauna | Research Excellence Award | Mexico | View Profile |
| Dr | fatma | mouez | Central Metallurgical Research and Development Institute | Women in Metallurgy Award | Egypt | View Profile |
| Prof. | Yunsong | Mu | Renmin University of China | Research Excellence Award | China | View Profile |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Miguel | Muñoz Rojo | National Research Council of Spain (CSIC) - Institute of Materials Science of Madrid (ICMM) | Research Excellence Award | Spain | View Profile |
| Ms | Fatemeh | Norouzi | Iran University of Medical Sciences | Innovative Research Award | Iran | View Profile |
| Mr. | Olufisayo Emmanuel | Ojo | Durban University of Technology | Best Researcher Award | South Africa | View Profile |
| Ms. | Chigozie Charity | Okwuwa | China University of Petroleum Beijing @ Karamay | Women Researcher Award | China | View Profile |
| Mr. | Yangyang | Pan | Ordos Institute of Technology | Research Excellence Award | China | View Profile |
| Dr | Di | Pan | University of Wollongong | Best Researcher Award | Australia | View Profile |
| Prof. Dr | Jose Refugio | Parga Torres | TecNM-ITS | Innovative Research Award | Mexico | View Profile |
| Prof. Dr | Priyabrata | Pattanaik | Manchester metropolitan University | Research Excellence Award | United Kingdom | View Profile |
| Mr | Sergio | Perosanz | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | Young Metallurgist Award | Spain | View Profile |
| Dr. | Aline | Petitmangin | Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systemes Atmospheriques | Research Excellence Award | France | View Profile |
| Dr | Samuel | Popoola | Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research | Innovative Research Award | Nigeria | View Profile |
| Dr | Prakash Gulabrao | Ranaware | NIT Rourkela | Best Researcher Award | India | View Profile |
| Dr. | Atta | Rasool | VSB- Technical University | Research Excellence Award | Czech Republic | View Profile |