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Andrey Zahariev
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Università di Padova, Italy
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Chairman
ICE and ICREA, Barcelona
Winner
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Catania University, Italy
Lorentz Jäntschi
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Award Committee
Dr. Sergey Odintsov
Chairman
ICE and ICREA, Barcelona
Winner
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University of Tartu, Estonia
Prof. Dr. José Antonio Oller
Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Kazuharu Bamba
Fukushima University, Japan
Award Committee
Dr. Sergey Odintsov
ICE and ICREA, Barcelona
Winner
Akira Otsuki
Université de Lorraine, France
Kazuharu Bamba
Fukushima University, Japan
Valery E. Lyubovitskij
Universität Tübingen, Germany
Winner
Janos Polonyi
Strasbourg University, France
Barbara Miroslaw
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin (UMCS), Poland
Ashkbiz Danehkar
University of Michigan, USA
Winner
Volker Schurig
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
Gyorgy Szekely
The University of Manchester, UK
José L. Cortés
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
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