EUCYS 2025 Winners

EUCYS 2025 in Riga brought together over 130 brilliant young minds from 37 countries. After an inspiring week of presentations, discussions, and cultural exchange, the international jury of leading scientists and engineers has selected this year’s winners.

The First Prizes

Anna Černá

Czech Republic

Biology project: Role of RECQ4 in DNA replication initiation

Evan Budz

Canada

Engineering project: Development of an Autonomous Bionic Sea Turtle Robot for Ecological Monitoring using AI

Dani Zuhair

Sweden

Physics project: Investigation Into the Depth Dependent Dynamics of Columnar Skyrmions

Antoni Łuczak

Poland

Mathematics project: On Apollonian Cubics in a Triangle

The Second Prizes

Ermis Tatsis

Greece

Physics project: Hybrid turbineless propulsion engine with on-board aluminum-based hydrogen production

Sara Waqas

Canada

Medicine project: Neurobiologically Informed Targeted Schizophrenia Treatment: A Multi-Omic, fMRI Approach

Carolina Coelho

Portugal

Physics project: Observational constraints on vector-like dark energy

Ceren Sel

Türkiye

Biology project: A Mathematical Modeling Study on the Impact of Enteric Glia-Derived Interferon Gamma on Glioblastoma Progression

The Third Prizes

Ethan Shuai Yan

USA

Medicine project: RetinAI: A Low-Cost AI System With a Wearable Headset and Retinal Imaging for Eye Tumor Home-Screening

Sille Porsborg Christensen

Denmark

Physics project:Soap Films as Minimal Surfaces: A Study on Soap Film’s Behaviour Statically and Dynamically

Lili Szokolai

Hungary

Medicine project: Development of peptide-drug conjugates targeting glioblastoma stem cells

Mia Maurer & Misha Hegde

Germany

Biology project: Bacteria on the menu 2.0

Special Jury Award

Sandro Chikovani & Nikoloz Gegenava

Georgia

Engineering project: AI-Powered Aerial System for Intelligent Search and Rescue Operations

Photos: Kaspars Teilāns

You can find the full list of EUCYS 2025 prizes here.