This prestigious award honors his exceptional contributions to the fields of functional analysis, operator theory, and related areas. The following five outstanding works have not only advanced the discipline but also earned the highest esteem and admiration from the referee committee:

• Medina, Rubén. On the constant of Lipschitz approximability. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 377 (2024), no. 4, 2925--2945.

• Medina, Rubén. Compact Hölder retractions and nearest point maps. Adv. Math. 428 (2023), Paper No. 109140, 13 pp.

• Hájek, Petr; Medina, Rubén. Compact retractions and Schauder decompositions in Banach spaces. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.376 (2023), no. 2, 1343–1372.

• López-Pérez, Ginés; Medina, Rubén. The equivalence between CPCP and strong regularity under Krein-Milman property. J. Funct. Anal.286 (2024), no. 4, Paper No. 110273, 20 pp.

• Dantas, Sheldon; Medina, Rubén. On holomorphic functions attaining their weighted norms. Rev. R. Acad. Cienc. Exactas Fís. Nat. Ser. A Mat. 119 (2025), no. 1, Paper No. 14.