Three best contribution prizes of 250CHF were awarded to early-career researchers (PhD students, or junior postdoctoral researchers with PhD award date in autumn 2023 or later). The winners were selected by the steering committee on the basis of their abstract and presentation. Researchers eligible for these prizes are marked with * in both list of participants and detailed programme. The award ceremony took place after the last session and before the conference dinner on Thursday January 30 2025.
| Name | Institution | Contribution title (abstracts) |
| Giannis Daras | University of Texas at Austin | Learning Generative Models from Corrupted Data |
| Marianna Foschi | Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia | Kine: Interferometric Dynamic Imaging with Neural Networks |
| Vinith Kishore | University of Basel | Locality enables end-to-end supervised learning for Cryo-ET |