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Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Zhen Wen
Soochow University
Robert Hoye
University of Oxford
Deblina Sarkar
MIT
Award Committee
Dr. Shirley Chiang
Chairman
University of California Davis
Dr. Filippo Giannazzo
CNR-IMM
Prof. Dennis K.P Ng
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prof. Dr. Fabien Grasset
Prof. Michael Saliba
Institute for Photovoltaics, University of Stuttgart
Winner
Liang Huang
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Aiping Chen
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Leonardo Ricotti
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Award Committee
Prof. Predrag Putnik
University North
Dr. Filippo Giannazzo
CNR-IMM
Dr. Béla Pécz
Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Energy Research Centre, EK MFA
Prof. Dr. Bin Zhu
Prof. Dennis K.P Ng
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prof. Yurii Gun'ko
Dr. Antonios Kelarakis
Winner
Ya Yang
Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Loredana Protesescu
University of Groningen
Joao Conde
Nova Medical School - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Award Committee
Dr. Shirley Chiang
Chairman
University of California Davis
Prof. Werner Blau
Prof. Dr. Detlef W. Bahnemann
Leibniz Universitaet Hannover
Prof. Diego Cazorla-Amorós
Universidad de Alicante
Prof. Paul Mcmillan
University College London
Dr. Christian M. Julien
Prof. Ladislav Kavan
J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry
Dr. Nikos Tagmatarchis
Dr. Paolo Scrimin
University of Padova, Department of Chemical Sciences
Winner
Deep M. Jariwala
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania U.S.A.
Jiajia Zhou
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Dr. Edoardo Albisetti
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Award Committee
Dr. Shirley Chiang
Chairman
University of California Davis
Prof. Jordi Sort
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Prof. Yogendra Mishra
University of Southern Denmark
Dr. Vijay Kumar Thakur
Scotland's Rural College
Dr. Yuan Chen
The University of Sydney
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