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| Prof. Dr. | kakhaber | lazarashvili | East European University | Georgia | Educational Innovation in Science | Excellence in Research Award | popularscientist.com |
| Kala | K | Saveetha School of Engineering SIMATS | India | Engineering | Women Researcher Award | |
| Kamal | Rasouli | Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran | Iran | Environmental Science | Young Scientist Award | |
| Prof. Dr. | Kamla Kant | Shukla | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur | India | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | Best Researcher Award | popularscientist.com |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr. | Kanellos | Toudas | Agricultural University of Athens | Greece | Social Sciences | Research Excellence Award | popularscientist.com |
| Dr. | Kangkang | Sun | Harbin Institute of Technology | China | Engineering | Best Researcher Award | popularscientist.com |
| Mr. | Kanishka | Senevirathna | University of Alberta | Canada | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof Dr | Kannan | Sridharan | Arabian Gulf University | Bahrain | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr. | KAPIL DEV | MAHATO | National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur | India | Biology and Life Sciences | Best Researcher Award | popularscientist.com |
| Prof. Dr. | Karim | Kabalan | American University of Beirut | Lebanon | Engineering | Best Researcher Award | popularscientist.com |
| Dr | Karuppasamy | Prem Ananth | Prince songkla University | Thailand | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Best Researcher Award | |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr. | Katarzyna | Błochowiak | Poznan University of Medical Sciences | Poland | Dentistry | Most Shared Article Award | popularscientist.com |
| Dr. | katayoun | Kargar | Toronto Metropolitan University | Canada | Engineering | Research Excellence Award | popularscientist.com |
| Prof. | Katepalli | Sreenivasan | New York University | United States | Physics and Astronomy | Lifetime Achievement Award | popularscientist.com |
| Dr. | Kaushal | Shah | Pandit Deendayal Energy University | India | Computer Science | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr. | Ke | Wang | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany | Engineering | Young Scientist Award | popularscientist.com |
| Prof. Dr. | Ke-Lin | Du | Guangdong University of Science and Technology | China | Artificial Neural Networks | Best Researcher Award | popularscientist.com |
| Mr. | Kehinde | Akinwolere | Ball State University | United States | Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence | Best Researcher Award | popularscientist.com |
| Prof. Dr. | Ken'ich | Ogawa | Research Institute for Biological Sciences, Okayama | Japan | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | Research Excellence Award | popularscientist.com |