| Mrs | Alessia | Kachadourian Marras | U-Flows.mx | Mexico | Water Policy | Modern Hydrogeology | Innovative Research Award | hydrologists.net |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Sachin Sharma | Ashok Kumar | Taylor's University | Malaysia | Climate Change Impacts | Corrosion Science | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof | Mohamad | Awad | CNRS-L | Lebanon | Water Resources | Water Resources and Remote Sensing Applications | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof. Dr | Tomomi | Terajima | DPRI | Japan | Catchment Hydrology | Hillslope hydrology | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof | Claudia | Cherubini | Università degli studi di Trieste | Italy | Groundwater Hydrology | Unsaturated zone | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof | Faridoun | Allawi | College of Engineering, Baghdad University | Iraq | Groundwater Hydrology | Groundwater Analog- Digital Simulation | Innovative Research Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof. Dr | Mohammad | Nejad | Yasouj University | Iran | Hydraulic Engineering | Pressure Vessel | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof | Seyed Hamidreza | Sadeghi | Tarbiat Modares University | Iran | Watershed Management | Soil Erosion and Sediment Yield | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Bagher | Shirmohammadi | University of Tehran | Iran | Integrated Water Management | Adaptive Water Resources Management | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof | Ali | Salajegheh | Department of Reclamation of Arid and Mountainous Regions, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran | Iran | Watershed Management | The impact of watershed management on the water balance | Innovative Research Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Saeedreza | Moazeni | Department of Reclamation of Arid and Mountainous Regions, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran | Iran | Watershed Management | The impact of watershed management on the water balance | Innovative Research Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | ABHIJEET | DAS | C.V. Raman Global University (CGU), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India | India | Water Resources | Water Resources Engineering and GIS | Breakthrough Research Award | hydrologists.net |
| Mrs | Debadrita | Das | Jadavpur University | India | Agricultural Hydrology | Water Soil Plant system | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Mr | Saurabh | Maurya | Indian Institute of Technology BHU, Varanasi | India | Hydrometeorology | Extreme rainfall modelling, WRF simulations, monsoon hydrometeorology, atmosphere-chemistry-hydrology integration | Innovative Research Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof | Nicholas | Kounis | University of Patras | Greece | Climate Change Impacts | Crdiology | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof. Dr | Evangelia | Farsirotou | University of Thessaly | Greece | Flood Modeling | River Hydraulics | Research Excellence 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 | Tatek Wondimu | Negash | Ethiopia Institute Of Agricultural Research, Melkassa Agricultural Research Center. | Ethiopia | Water Resources | Irrigation and Drainage 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 | Agegnehu | Yoshe | Arba Minch University | Ethiopia | Water Resources | groundwater and surface water resource | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |