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USERN 2020 Prize Awarding Festival
USERN Laureates 2020 are announced on November 10th
Each year on November 10th, the Worlds' Science Day for Peace and Development, the USERN prize is bestowed to young scientists in appreciation and recognition of their novel advancement or achievement in scientific education, research, or serving the humanity in five scientific fields including Formal Sciences, Physical and Chemical Sciences, Biological Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. The hosts of the festival were Tehran (Iran), Kharkov (Ukraine), Reggio Calabria (Italy), and Budapest (Hungary) in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, respectively. During these four years, USERN has winners from 14 countries from all of the 5 continents: USA, UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Chile, Iran, Slovenia, Spain, Russia, Switzerland, Australia, and Canada.
This year, about 13000 elite researchers who have been the first author of the papers published in Q1 journals during 2019 and 2020 were nominated to participate in the contest. More than 350 young researchers of these nominees officially entered the evaluation level which is performed and supervised by USERN advisory board members who all are among the top 1% scientists. The result of the evaluation was selecting top 10 researchers in each field of science. The next round of evaluation was conducted along with public voting. More than 1000 individuals have participated in public voting and the results demonstrated top 5 candidates in each field. The final evaluation was performed by the USERN advisory board, again and the USERN Laureates were officially announced at the closing ceremony of the 5th International USERN Congress on November 10th. As of the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions, a hybrid model of festival was considered this year; the USERN Laureate in Medical Sciences attend the festival in-person, while H.E. Ambassadors of the respective countries of other Laureates received the USERN prize on behalf of the winners.
USERN LAUREATES 2020
Lianne Schamaal (Australia) in Social Sciences | for: A Global Alliance to Elucidate Neurobiological Signatures of Depression and Suicide
Mohammad Ali Shahbazi (Finland) in Medical Sciences | for: A Thermo-responsive Biopolymeric Microimplant for the Treatment of Autoimmune Disorders
Daniel Sauter (Germany) in Biological Sciences | for: Deciphering molecular determinants of coronavirus spread in the human population
Gregory Mark Allen Ashton (Australia) in Physical and Chemical Sciences | for: Black holes and neutron stars: enabling astrophysics with Bilb y
Dongrui Wu (China) in Formal Sciences | for: Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Calibration-free and Secure Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs)For more information:
https://usern.tums.ac.ir/SiteContent/Show/PrizeFestival