- Martin Aeschlimann
 Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Deutschland
 “Chasing excited electrons in energy, momentum space, and time”
- Tania Cuk
 University of Colorado Boulder, USA
 “Mapping time-resolved intermediates of in-situ water oxidation to theoretical descriptors of the oxygen evolution reaction”
- Katharina Franke
 Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland
 “Spin excitations and interactions on superconductors - probed and manipulated by scanning tunneling microscopy”
- Leo Gross
 IBM Research Zürich, Schweiz
 “Controlling molecular reactions, charge states and excited states with atom manipulation”
- Bjork Hammer
 University of Aarhus, Dänemark
 “Surface structure by way of machine learning”
- Klaus Kern
 Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung Stuttgart, Deutschland
 “Light-matter interaction at the atomic scale”
- Marc Koper
 Leiden University, Niederlande
 “Electrochemical surface science of platinum electrodes”
- Vicki Grassian
 University of California San Diego, USA
 “Physical chemistry and chemical physics of environmental interfaces”