| Dr | Agegnehu | Yoshe | Arba Minch University | Ethiopia | Water Resources | groundwater and surface water resource | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof | Wang | Shijin | Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, CAS | China | Water Resources | Glacier runoff | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof | Jacques (Iakovos) | Ganoulis (Gkanoulis) | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Greece | Water Resources | Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) | Innovative Research Award | hydrologists.net |
| Mr | Xiaofeng | Ding | Guangdong University of Technology | China | Water Quality | Water Quality | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Mr | NSHIMIYIMANA | Elisee | Zhejiang ocean University | China | Water Quality | Aquaculture / Environmental Science | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Nafiseh | Salehi Siavashani | IDAEA- CSIC | Spain | Water Quality | Machine learning | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Mrs | Alessia | Kachadourian Marras | U-Flows.mx | Mexico | Water Policy | Modern Hydrogeology | Innovative Research Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Troy | Peters | Washington State University | United States | Water Conservation | Agricultural Water Use | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Ms | Ráhel | PORTIK-SZABÓ | IRCEM- Institute for Research in Circular Economy and Environment "Ernest Lupan" | Romania | Urban Hydrology | Sustainable Membrane Systems | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Elena Simina | LAKATOS | IRCEM- Institute for Research in Circular Economy and Environment "Ernest Lupan" | Romania | Urban Hydrology | Urban water reuse and climate resilience using membrane technologies | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Mr | Roshan | Sewa | Southern Illinois University Carbondale | United States | Urban Flooding | Flood Susceptibility Mapping | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Zeling | Zhao | College of Mechanical & Energy Engineering, Beijing University of Technology | China | Sustainable Water Use | mechanical engineering | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Wuletawu | Abera | Internationla Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) | Ethiopia | Surface Water | Lake water surface dynamics | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Ľubomír | Kseňak | Technical University of Košice | Slovakia | Surface Water | Remote Sensing | Innovative Research Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Yousef | Alhaj Hamoud | Hohai University | China | Soil Moisture Dynamics | Soil, Plant and Water Relations | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Mr | DENG | Anjun | China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research | China | Sediment Transport | the Lower Jinsha River | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Mr | Jingjing | Xu | Changjiang River Scientific Research Institute | China | Sediment Transport | Runoff and Sediment Characteristics of Flood Events | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Mr | Jun | Liu | Haikou Marine Geological Survey, China Geological Survey | China | Sediment Transport | Sources and accumulation causes of organic carbon and how they respond to ancient climate changes | Innovative Research Award | hydrologists.net |
| Mr | huiqing | wang | Southwest Medical University | China | Remote Sensing | Interpretation of remote sensing images | Innovative Research Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Bagher | Shirmohammadi | University of Tehran | Iran | Integrated Water Management | Adaptive Water Resources Management | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |