Awards

-Debye Prize for Young Investigators for Excellence in Dielectric Research awarded by IDS. The prize committee was composed by the Chair, Silvina Cerveny, (Centro de Fisica de Materiales, CSIC, UPV/EHU, Spain) and Zaneta Wojnarowska (University of Silesia, Poland) and Catalin Gainaru (Oak Ridge National Lab., USA) and winner was Dr. Stavros Drakopoulos (PMI, Princeton University, USA)

- The TWO best young talks were awarded with two prizes by MDPI.

The jury was composed by the President, Friedrich Kremer (University of Leipzig, Germany) and Emeline Dudognon (University of Lille, France), Koji Fukao (Ritsumeikan, University, Japan), Marian Paluch (University of Silesia, Poland) and Shiwang Cheng (Michigan State, USA).

The winners were Elisa Steinrücken (TU Darmstadt, Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Germany) and Panagiotis Kardasis (University of Ioannina, Greece).

 - The three best posters were awarded with prizes by i3N (2 prizes) and Crystals from MDPI (1 prize); Crystals from MDPI also awarded the best videoposter.

The jury was composed by the President, Alexei Sokolov, (University of Tennessee, USA) and Ana Šantić (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia), Aurora Nogales (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Spain), Jeppe Dyre (Roskilde University, Denmark) and Paulina Szymoniak (BAM, Berlin, Germany).

The three best posters winners were: Andreia Santos (NOVA Faculty of Science and Technology, Portugal), Ioannis Tzourtzouklis (University of Ioannina, Greece) and Martin Tress (Leipzig University, Germany); the best videoposter winner was: Panagiotis Kardasis (University of Ioannina, Greece).

- 7 honorable mentions were awarded by Springer that offered printed volumes published in Springer Advances in Dielectrics series. The awarded with honorable mentions of:

the young talks were: Kaylie Glynn (The Ohio State University, USA), Kosei Kawai (The University of Tokyo, Japan) and Rolf Zeißler (Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Germany).

the posters were: Achilleas Pipertzis (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), Alfred Błażytko (University of Silesia, Poland), Erik Thoms (Arizona State University, USA) and Yun Dong (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany).