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Recognizing Innov
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Winners for the 11th Award (2024)

Creativity Prize

[1] The team of Maria Cristina Rulli (Polytechnic of Milan,
Italy) and Paolo D’Odorico (University of California,
Berkeley, USA)
for spearheading novel analyses of the water-energy-food nexus that Maria Cristina Rulli Paolo DOdorico
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describe how numerous complex factors interact, providing for better
freshwater stewardship in a changing, globalised world.
[2] The team of Zhiguo He (Zhejiang University, China)
for developing working, versatile soft robots with unprecedented manoeuvrability that have the capacity
for numerous underwater research and monitoring applications. Team members include: Pengcheng Jiao
and Yang Yang.
Zhiguo He
Surface Water Prize
Qiuhua Liang (Loughborough University, UK) and his team
for developing innovative, open-source, multi-GPU hydrodynamic models to support real-
time ood forecasting at ne temporal resolutions. Team members include: Huili Chen,
Xiaodong Ming, Xilin Xia, Yan Xiong and Jiaheng Zhao.
Qiuhua Liang
Groundwater Prize
Chunmiao Zheng (EIT, Ningbo, China) and his team
for powerful management tools to understand groundwater processes in ecohydrologic
systems under diverse hydrological and climatic conditions, considering environmental
and socioeconomic factors at local and national scales.
Chunmiao Zheng
Alternative Water Resources Prize

Virender K. Sharma (Texas A&M University, USA) and his team
for the e ective removal of antibiotics and pharmaceuticals from wastewater through
advanced oxidative processes by activated ferrate, which work at high, even enhanced,
e ciency in water containing commonly occurring natural organic matter. Team members
include: Ching-Hua Huang, Chetan Jinadatha and Radek Zbořil. Virender K. Sharma
Water Management & Protection Prize

Joseph Hun-wei Lee (Macau University of Science & Technology, China)
for developing unique and highly e ective hydro-environmental modelling systems for
the sustainable water management of smart cities.
Joseph Hun-wei Lee
Invitation for Nominations
www.psipw.org email: info@psipw.org
12th Award (2026)

Nominations open online until 31 December 2025

www.psipw.org e-mail: info@psipw.org

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