| Prof | Horace | Crogman | California State Dominguez Hills | United States | Biophysics | Optical Manipulation, Biomedical Engineering, Biophysical Research | Excellence in Research | View Profile |
| Dr | Evgeny | Mishin | Boston College | United States | Plasma Physics | plasma physics of subauroral arcs | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Resham | Thapa | University of Wyoming | United States | Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy | Char materials as a soil amendment | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Mrs | Sara | Abbasi | Texas A&M University | United States | Acoustics | MEMS, Surface Acoustic Waves,Acoustofluidics | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Gang | Ren | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | United States | Biophysics | Structural Biology | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Tianmin | Fu | Ohio State University | United States | Biophysics | Structural Biology | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Noureddine | Melikechi | University of Massachusetts Lowell | United States | Biophysics | Optical Medical Diagnosis-Liquid biospy | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Steven | Chu | Stanford University | United States | Biophysics | single particle tracking | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof. Dr | UTKAN | DEMIRCI | Stanford University | United States | Acoustics | Biomedical devices | Breakthrough Research Accomplishment Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Shu-ou | Shan | California Institute of Technology | United States | Biophysics | Biochemistry, structural biology | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | John | Ingersoll | ECOCORP | United States | Quantum Mechanics | Thermodynamics/Statistical Mechanics | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Sanjay | Krishna | Ohio State University | United States | Solid-State Physics | Semiconductor Infrared Detectors | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Zeinab | Ramezani | University of Miami | United States | Solid-State Physics | Semiconductor devices | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Carl | Peterson | Independent Scholar | United States | Quantum Optics | Quantum Theory/quantum field theory | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Assist. Prof. Dr | Tikaram | Neupane | University of North Carolina at Pembroke | United States | Solid-State Physics | Light matter interaction | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Faranak | Hatami | university of massachusetts Lowell | United States | Molecular Physics | computational theory | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof | David | Awschalom | University of Chicago | United States | Quantum Information Science | Spin Qubits | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Glenn | Orton | Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology | United States | Molecular Physics | Collision-Induced Absorption | Molecular Physics Achievement Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Sayak | Chatterjee | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | United States | Particle Physics | Experimental High Energy Nuclear Physics | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Suchit | Sarin | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | United States | Ultrafast Physics | Materials Science and Metallurgy | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |