(Press-News.org) HOBOKEN, NJ—Eleven researchers have earned one of the most competitive early-career honors in interdisciplinary science: the 2025 Advanced Science Young Innovator Award. Wiley, a global leader in authoritative content and research intelligence and publisher of Advanced Science, announced the award recipients today.
Selected from a highly competitive pool of 472 applicants across 40 countries, this year's winners represent the highest caliber of emerging scientists translating discoveries into real-world impact.
Now in its second year, the Advanced Science Young Innovator Award has quickly become a sought-after recognition among early-career researchers worldwide. The award identifies scientists whose interdisciplinary approaches are bridging fields and accelerating the path from laboratory breakthrough to practical application in materials science and chemistry, physics and engineering, life and health sciences, earth and environmental sciences, and social sciences.
"This award recognizes the very best emerging scientists who are not just advancing their fields, but demonstrating how rigorous research creates tangible impact," said Kirsten Severing, editor-in-chief of Advanced Science. "The caliber and global reach of this year's applicant pool made selection exceptionally competitive—these eleven winners represent the future of impactful scientific leadership."
Advanced Science is an open access interdisciplinary science journal publishing the best-in-class fundamental and applied research in materials science, physics, chemistry, medical and life sciences, and engineering. It is part of Wiley’s Advanced Portfolio, a family of globally respected, high-impact journals that disseminate the best science from well-established and emerging researchers.
Advanced Science Young Innovator Award winners were selected based on the originality of their research, demonstrated impact potential, and ability to work across traditional scientific boundaries. The rigorous selection process evaluated both the quality of their published work and the trajectory of their contributions to solving critical challenges in the selected disciplines.
The following 11 individuals are this year’s winners:
Athina Anastasaki—Associate Professor, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, whose work focuses on developing new methods to enable precision polymer synthesis and recycling.
Sascha Feldmann—Assistant Professor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, whose research focuses on controlling charge, spin and light polarization in emerging semiconductor materials.
Grace X. Gu—Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA, who studies accelerating materials design and discovery using computational modeling and machine learning.
Deep Jariwala—Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, USA, who focuses on design and development of computing, information storage, sensing and energy harvesting devices from low-dimensional materials.
Lu Jiong—Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore, whose research centers on designing emergent atomic and quantum materials to uncover and harness their novel quantum phenomena and catalytic properties.
Alexis C. Komor—Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego, USA, who is working to develop new precision genome editing methodologies to functionally interrogate how specific point mutations contribute to human disease.
Nikolay Kornienko—Professor, University of Bonn, Germany, whose lab works to electrify chemical reactions in the overall direction of sustainability.
Charles C. J. Loh—Assistant Professor, University College Dublin, Ireland, who is studying the catalytic exploitation of non-classical σ-hole based interactions and the development of novel asymmetric catalytic strategies.
Jing Meng—Professor, University College London, UK, whose research is dedicated to developing innovative, data-driven solutions that bridge critical gaps between climate policy and real-world implementation.
Dashun Wang—Professor, Northwestern University, USA, whose work examines the science of innovation, using and creating tools from complexity science and AI to understand how innovation occurs and how breakthroughs happen.
Zeyu Xiao—Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, who has advanced Raman spectroscopy technologies from in vitro diagnosis to in vivo theragnostic.
Award recipients will be recognized at Wiley’s Advanced Summit on November 11, 2025, joining established scientific leaders in Berlin, Germany. Each winner receives a $1,000 research prize and amplification through Advanced Science's global platform—recognition that accelerates collaboration opportunities, funding, and real-world application of their work.
Wiley’s Advanced Summit, live-streamed from Wiley's Berlin office, is a hybrid event designed to accelerate breakthroughs in energy, electronics, and photonics. Attendees will gain fresh perspectives and insights from talks by 12 global experts in the fields of energy, electronics, and photonics.
Learn more about the winners and their research at: Advanced Science Young Innovator Award.
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