| Dr | Seong Yeon | Yoo | National Forensic Service | South Korea | Best Researcher Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | Mark | Wolfff | University of Pennsylvania | United States | Best Researcher Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | latifa | khattabi | Centre National de recherche en Biotechnologie | Algeria | Best Researcher Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | Guoli | Li | Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital (The First-Affiliated Hospital of Hunan Normal University) | China | Best Researcher Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | Jian | Wang | Queensland Herbarium | Australia | Best Researcher Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | Andrew | Vyse | Pfizer UK Ltd | United Kingdom | Excellence in Research Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | Manzar | Abbas | Inner Mongolia Saikexing Reproductive Biotechnology Company | China | Best Researcher Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | Ahmed Ehab | Abdelsalam | School of Design and Creative Arts, Loughborough University | United Kingdom | Best Researcher Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | Lina | Fan | The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine | China | Best Researcher Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | Christopher | Reilly | University of Utah | United States | Best Researcher Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | Fusheng | Liu | Xi'an Jiaotong University | China | Best Researcher Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | Chia-Chi | Key | Wake Forest University School of Medicine | United States | Best Researcher Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | Umair | Kashif | Fuzhou University | China | Best Researcher Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | Yang | Xu | Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Eighth Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital | China | Best Researcher Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | Qinghong | He | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences | China | Best Researcher Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | xiaoqin | luo | The Affiliated Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Southwest Medical University | China | Best Researcher Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | Rui | Chen | Yunnan Normal University | China | Excellence in Research Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | Rafiq | Ahmad | National Ilan University | Taiwan | Best Researcher Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | Youngji | Jo | UConn Health | United States | Best Researcher Award | forensicscientist.org |
| Dr | Liang-Wei | Cui | Southwest Forestry University | China | Best Researcher Award | forensicscientist.org |
