On behalf of the ISSMO Executive Committee, we are very pleased to announce that the ISSMO/Springer Prize 2025 is awarded to:

• Mr. Hao Li: “Homogenisation-based topology optimisation for convection-dominated heat transfer incorporated with neural network surrogate modelling”, by Hao Li and Joe Alexandersen, University of Southern Denmark.
• Mr. Vladislav Pimanov: “Sparse narrow-band topology optimization for large-scale thermal-fluid applications”, by Vladislav Pimanov, Alexandre T. R. Guibert, John-Paul Sabino, Michael Stoia and H. Alicia Kim, University of California San Diego and The Boeing Company.