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Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Salvatore Antonio Biancardo
Federico II University of Naples
Seunghun S. Lee
Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich
Leonardo Bianchi
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Mustafa Can Gursesli
University of Florence
Laura Clarizia
Dept. of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Award Committee
Prof. Takayoshi Kobayashi
Chairman
The University of Electro-Communications
Prof. Andrea Scribante
Unit of Orthodontics and Paediatric Dentistry – Section of Dentistry - Department of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic and Paediatric Sciences - University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Dr. Spiridon Mantzoukas
University of Ioannina
Prof. Suchao Xie
Central South University
Prof. Zhengjun Liu
Winner
Agnese Sbrollini
Department of Information Engineering, Università Politecnica delle Marche
Helena P. Felgueiras
Centre for Textile Science and Technology, University of Minho
Thomas Sevrin
System Biology Ireland, UCD
Daegyun Choi
University of Cincinnati
Yuhan Liu
School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, the University of Queensland
Award Committee
Prof. Takayoshi Kobayashi
Chairman
The University of Electro-Communications
Dr. Roger J. Narayan
UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
Prof. Zhengjun Liu
Prof. Andrea Scribante
Unit of Orthodontics and Paediatric Dentistry – Section of Dentistry - Department of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic and Paediatric Sciences - University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Dr. Spiridon Mantzoukas
University of Ioannina
Prof. Dr. Anthony William Coleman
Univ Lyon
Winner
Philip Martin
Queen's University Belfast
Award Committee
Prof. Saulius Juodkazis
Chairman
Swinburne University of Technology
Dr. Alessandro Belardini
Sapiena Università di Roma
Dr. AMALIA MILIOU
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Winner
HANFEI MEI
University of South Carolina
Award Committee
Dr. Applied Sciences Editorial Office
Chairman
MDPI AG, St. Alban-Anlage 66, 4052 Basel, Switzerland
Mr. Melon Zhang
MDPI
Winner
Kayn Forbes
University of East Anglia
Stefano Signorini
University of Trento
Winner
Juan Sebastian Totero Gongora
University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Winner
Riccardo Frisenda
Material Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM), Spain
Matthias Benjamin Jungfleisch
Argonne National Laboratory
Winner
Urcan Guler
Purdue University
Davide Bossini
University of Tokyo
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