| Dr | Zeling | Zhao | College of Mechanical & Energy Engineering, Beijing University of Technology | China | Sustainable Water Use | mechanical engineering | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Yuxiang | Ying | ZheJiang University | China | Ecohydrology | Fluid Dynamics | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof. Dr | 玉忠 | 杨 | 中国科学院西北生态环境资源研究院 | China | Climate Hydrology | 冰冻圈水文 | 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 |
| Dr | Xuanhe | Han | Hainan University | China | Hydraulic Engineering | Deepsea Mining | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof. Dr | xiaojun | Tang | Xi’an Jiaotong University | China | Hydroinformatics | Monitoring of underground water | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Mr | Xiaofeng | Ding | Guangdong University of Technology | China | Water Quality | Water Quality | 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 |
| Prof. Dr | Wenfeng | Du | Henan University | China | Blue-Green Infrastructure | structural engineering | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | TSZ LOK | WAN | University of Alberta | Canada | Water-Energy Nexus | Synergistic engineering of heterovalent states and sulfur-vacancy defects in Co/O co-doped ZnS for enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Tomomi | Terajima | DPRI | Japan | Catchment Hydrology | Hillslope hydrology | Research Excellence 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 | Salomon | Salumu Zahera | Institut National du Bâtiment et des Travaux Publics | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | Hydroinformatics | Hydraulics & hydrology | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Sachin Sharma | Ashok Kumar | Taylor's University | Malaysia | Climate Change Impacts | Corrosion Science | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Sabab Ali | Shah | Department of Environmental Sciences, Aror University of Art, Architecture, Design and Heritage, Pakistan | Pakistan | Climate Hydrology | Hdrology | Best Researcher Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof. Dr | Evangelia | Farsirotou | University of Thessaly | Greece | Flood Modeling | River Hydraulics | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof. Dr | Danielle | Kassada | University of Campinas | Brazil | Climate Change Impacts | Health and Climate Change | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof | Arcangelo | Loss | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | Brazil | Climate Change Impacts | Impacto das mudanças climáticas | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Prof | Nicholas | Kounis | University of Patras | Greece | Climate Change Impacts | Crdiology | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |
| Dr | Nafiseh | Salehi Siavashani | IDAEA- CSIC | Spain | Water Quality | Machine learning | Research Excellence Award | hydrologists.net |