Finalists include young scholars active in US universities and research centers. The ISSNAF Lifetime Achievement Award will go to Guido Calabresi, a federal judge in the United States, and professor emeritus at Yale University Law School.

They have made discoveries about the immune response in Covid patients, study the effects of the virus on blood vessels, or analyze its composition with super electron microscopes. They seek new ways to treat leukemia, develop artificial intelligence systems to combat climate change or particle accelerators to study the structure of materials.