| Prof | Seyed Hamidreza | Sadeghi | Tarbiat Modares University | Iran | Watershed Management | Soil Erosion and Sediment Yield | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof | Guoqian | Chen | Peking University | China | Water Resources | Social hydrology | Excellence in Hydrology Award | hydrologists.net |
| Assist. Prof. Dr | Franziska | Koch | BOKU University, Institute of Hydrology and Water Management | Austria | Catchment Hydrology | Snow hydrology | Innovative Research 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 |
| Prof. Dr | Evangelia | Farsirotou | University of Thessaly | Greece | Flood Modeling | River Hydraulics | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof. Dr | Mohamed | Elhag | King Abdulaziz University | Saudi Arabia | Flood Modeling | Remote Sensing | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Ľubomír | Kseňak | Technical University of Košice | Slovakia | Surface Water | Remote Sensing | Innovative Research Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof. Dr | Mohammad | Nejad | Yasouj University | Iran | Hydraulic Engineering | Pressure Vessel | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof. Dr | Georgina Itandehui | Avila Castañeda | Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo | Mexico | Watershed Management | Nexo agua-alimentos | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof. Dr | Guanhua | Huang | China Agricultural University | China | Agricultural Hydrology | Natural Science | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof. Dr | xiaojun | Tang | Xi’an Jiaotong University | China | Hydroinformatics | Monitoring of underground water | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Mrs | Alessia | Kachadourian Marras | U-Flows.mx | Mexico | Water Policy | Modern Hydrogeology | Innovative Research 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 |
| Prof | Fangfang | Li | China Agricultural University | China | Water-Energy Nexus | Management of Hybrid Hydro-PV-Wind Energy System | Women Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Nafiseh | Salehi Siavashani | IDAEA- CSIC | Spain | Water Quality | Machine learning | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Wuletawu | Abera | Internationla Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) | Ethiopia | Surface Water | Lake water surface dynamics | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof | Yunliang | Li | Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Water Resources | Lake and catchment simulations | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof | Caixiang | Zhang | China University of Geosciences | China | Groundwater Hydrology | Jianghan Plain | Best Researcher 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 |
| Mr | huiqing | wang | Southwest Medical University | China | Remote Sensing | Interpretation of remote sensing images | Innovative Research Award | hydrologists.net |