| Dr | Elijah | Stommel | Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth | United States | Environmental Chemistry | Neurotoxicology | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Jared | Fischer | Oregon Health and Science University | United States | Nanotechnology | Biomedical nanomaterials | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Nikolai | Kocherginsky | Next-ChemX | United States | Thermodynamics | nonequilibrium thermodynamics | Chemistry Breakthrough Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Jeffrey | Amelse | JUniversidade de Aveiro, Departamento de Química, CICECO, Portugal | United States | Environmental Chemistry | Global Warming, Renewable Energy, Decarbonization | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Le | Kuai | Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology | United States | Environmental Chemistry | Atmospheric compensition and air quality | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Yong | Wang | Albany Med Health System | United States | Reaction Mechanisms | Cardiac Hypertrophy and Heart Failure | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Melike | Bayram | Duke University | United States | Polymer Chemistry | Membrane and life cycle assessment | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |