| Dr | Salomon | Salumu Zahera | Institut National du Bâtiment et des Travaux Publics | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | Hydroinformatics | Hydraulics & hydrology | 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 |
| Dr | Nafiseh | Salehi Siavashani | IDAEA- CSIC | Spain | Water Quality | Machine learning | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Dafalla | Wadi | University of Bahri | Saudi Arabia | Water Resources | Sudan | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Mekash S. | Kifelew | Institute of Geographical Science and Natural Resource Research | Canada | Groundwater Hydrology | Hydrology | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Zohaib | Akbar | Chinese Academy of Sciences | Pakistan | Groundwater Hydrology | Geophysical Studies | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | SILVIA | CHAMIZO CHECA | Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala | Mexico | Watershed Management | Water availability | Lifetime Achievement Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Bagher | Shirmohammadi | University of Tehran | Iran | Integrated Water Management | Adaptive Water Resources Management | Best Researcher 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 | Ľubomír | Kseňak | Technical University of Košice | Slovakia | Surface Water | Remote Sensing | Innovative Research Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Agegnehu | Yoshe | Arba Minch University | Ethiopia | Water Resources | groundwater and surface water resource | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Yousef | Alhaj Hamoud | Hohai University | China | Soil Moisture Dynamics | Soil, Plant and Water Relations | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Yongbo | Wu | Nanjing Forestry University | China | Ecohydrology | ecological restoration | Innovative Research Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Troy | Peters | Washington State University | United States | Water Conservation | Agricultural Water Use | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Imerina | TANKEUOO KOPA | National Higher School of Hydraulics (ENSH), Blida, Algeria | Cameroon | Agricultural Hydrology | Integrated Effects of Organic Mulch Composites and Drip Irrigation on Soil Quality, Water Conservation and Tomato Growth Under Semi-Arid Mediterranean Conditions | Innovative Research Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Azad | Sadeghi | university of North Carolina at Charlotte | United States | Groundwater Hydrology | Groundwater, Surfacewater interaction | Excellence in Innovation Award | hydrologists.net |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Sachin Sharma | Ashok Kumar | Taylor's University | Malaysia | Climate Change Impacts | Corrosion Science | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Malik Muhammad | Akhtar | BUITEMS, Pakistan | Pakistan | Groundwater Hydrology | Groundwater Recharge | Groundwater Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Assist. Prof. Dr | Kaiyan | Wang | School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology | China | Hydropower Systems | electric engineering | Best Researcher 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 |