- Right of the Board Members for nomination (with name, CV, appreciation), sending to the Secretary General of the ISEM
- The Secretary General collects the nominations and opens electronical voting by the Board Members
- Process should be finished at least one year before the forthcoming ISEM congress
- The Award: Certificate and Medal
- Given during the Congress Opening Ceremony, together with delivery of the Sun Lee Memorial lecture (Part I: remembering for Prof. Sun Lee, Part II: scientific results of the Awardee)
- 1998 Arnulf Thiede (Germany)
- 2000 Masumi Nozawa (Japan)
- 2002 Robert Zhong (Canada)
- 2004 Sobhi Hweidi (Egypt)
- 2006 Antonio di Cataldo (Italy)
- 2008 Huifang Chen (Canada)
- 2009 Corradino Campisi (Italy) and Shiguang Qian (USA)
- 2010 Iren Miko (Hungary) and Yoko Mullen (USA)
- 2011 Wolff M. Kirsch (USA) and Duck Jong Han (Korea)
- 2012 Eiji Kobayashi (Japan)
- 2014 Chang Hyun Yoo (Korea) and Yuqin Wang (USA)
- 2015 Norbert Nemeth (Hungary)
- 2016 Edna F.S. Montero (Brazil) and Robert M. Hoffman (USA)
- 2018 Istvan Furka (Hungary) and Mihai Ionac (Romania)
- 2021: Mihai Oltean (Sweden) and Zheng Jenny Zhang (USA)
- 2023: Yelena Akelina (USA)