The 29th International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC2025) was held in Daejeon, Korea, from May 25 to 30. During the conference, the Nuclear Physics Commission (C12) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) officially announced the list of new awardees for the IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in Nuclear Physics, and held the award ceremony.

Liu Hongna, the researcher from the School of Physics and Astronomy at Beijing Normal University, was awarded for her  innovative studies of exotic nuclei using in-beam gamma spectroscopy with fast radioactive isotope beams, including the development of a novel target and recoil-particle detection system. And she was invited to give a report at the conference.

IUPAP was founded in Brussels, Belgium, in 1922. It is the largest academic organization in the international physics community and the only global organization covering all fields of physics, with national and regional physics academic groups as its members (the Chinese Physical Society joined in 1984). The Early Career Scientist Prize, established in 2005, is awarded through a selection process that lasts six months to a year and is one of the most authoritative and influential awards for young scientists in the international physics community. Until 2025, a total of 21 individuals have received this award in the field of nuclear physics worldwide. Liu Hongna is the second nuclear physicist working in China to receive this honor.