At the Frontier Science 2003 edition, three young researchers were awarded for the high scientific quality of their works and the professional level of their presentations. The awards went to:

Dr. Paolo Crucitti, of the Scuola Superiore di Catania (Italy), for the talk "Efficiency of scale-free networks: error and attack tolerance"


Dr. Diego Garlaschelli, of the University of Siena (Italy), for the talk "Wealth dynamics on complex networks"


Dr. Liu Qin, of CCNU, Wuhan (China), for the talk "Towards a fractal approach to hadronization processes: evidence for stability, stationarity and scaling"