TWAS Prizes are awarded in nine fields: Agricultural Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Earth, Astronomy and Space Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Mathematics, Medical Sciences, Physics, and Social Sciences. There are 13 prize winners: four from China and one from Taiwan, China; three from Argentina; one from India; one from Iran Islamic Republic; one from Malaysia; one from Nigeria and one from South Africa. The prize winners include one woman.

Each TWAS Prize carries a cash award of USD15,000. The winners will lecture about their research at TWAS's 29th General Meeting, when they will also receive a plaque and the prize money.

Agricultural Sciences

• Esteban Gabriel JOBBAGY of Argentina, for his insight into the reciprocal interactions between vegetation, soil and hydrology and related applications in managed ecosystems of the South American plains.

Biology

• Hossein BAHARVAND of Iran Isl. Rep., for his fundamental contribution to the understanding of how pluripotency and differentiation establish and maintain in stem cells.

Chemistry

• TANG Zhiyong of China, for his contribution to developments of methods and theory for controllable synthesis and self-assembly of nanoparticles.

Earth, Astronomy and Space Sciences

• CAO Junji of China, for his seminal work on aerosols, air quality and earth environmental sciences.

Engineering Science (shared)

• Ahmad Fauzi ISMAIL of Malaysia, for his outstanding contributions in the area of membrane technology and nanotechnology for desalination, wastewater treatment, gas separation and hemodialysis.
• Noemi Elisabet ZARITZKY of Argentina, for her fundamental contribution to the understanding of food and environmental engineering problems.

Mathematics (shared)

• TANG Zizhou of China, for his fundamental contributions to differential geometry, including outstanding works in isoparametric theory, and harmonic maps.
• Dipendra PRASAD of India, for his fundamental contributions to branching laws of classical groups over local and global fields through what has been called the Gan-Gross-Prasad conjectures.

Medical Sciences (shared)

• Alejandro Fabian SCHINDER of Argentina, for his fundamental contribution to the understanding of development, integration and function of newly generated neurons in the adult brain.
• Robert Peter MILLAR of South Africa, for his fundamental and translational contributions in the field of neuroendocrinology leading to the development of new treatments for hormone-dependent diseases.

Physics

• CHEN Xianhui of China, for his seminal contributions to the exploration of quantum materials, especially for the discovery of superconductivity above 40K in Fe-based superconductors.

Social Sciences (shared)

• JUAN Chi-Hung of Taiwan, China, for his contribution to our understanding of psychological mechanisms of cognitive control and new discoveries in relevant interventional methods.
• Ayodele Samuel JEGEDE of Nigeria, for his work in the areas of medical sociology, anthropology and bioethics.