| Dr | Sharon | Youmans | University of California San Francisco School of Pharmacy | United States | Best Researcher Award | scientistday.org |
| Prof | Li | Yu | Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences | China | Best Researcher Award | scientistday.org |
| Dr | Xiaolu | Yuan | University of Science and Technology Beijing | China | Research Excellence Award | scientistday.org |
| Dr | LONGFEI | YUE | NUE | China | Best Researcher Award | scientistday.org |
| Dr | Hamza | Zafar | National Yunlin University of Science and Technology | Taiwan | Best Researcher Award | scientistday.org |
| Dr | Hadiel | Zamzam | Suez University, Egypt | Egypt | Best Researcher Award | scientistday.org |
| Mr | Marco | Zanotti | University of Milan-Bicocca | Italy | Best Researcher Award | scientistday.org |
| Mrs | Samia | ZAOUI | Mohammed VI Foundation of Health and Sciences | Morocco | Women Researcher Award | scientistday.org |
| Prof. Dr | Xiao-Yong | Zhao | Zhejiang University | China | Best Researcher Award | scientistday.org |
| Mr | Yihang | Zhong | Chinese University of Hong Kong | China | Best Researcher Award | scientistday.org |
| Prof. Dr | Fanfan | Zhou | The University of Sydney | Australia | Women Researcher Award | scientistday.org |
| Mr | Yuxuan | Zhu | The Institute of Seawater Desalination and Multipurpose Utilization, Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Tianjin 300192, P. R. China | China | Best Researcher Award | scientistday.org |
| Dr | Urszula | Zielenkiewicz | Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS | Poland | Outstanding Contribution Award | scientistday.org |
| Prof | Сергей | Пулинец | Институт космических исследований РАН | Russia | Best Researcher Award | scientistday.org |
| Mr | 博洋 | 徐 | 浙江金融职业学院 | China | Best Researcher Award | scientistday.org |