2nd Edition

Sandip Tiwari

Charles N. Mellowes Professor of Engineering at Cornell University (United States). Formerly director of the U.S. National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN).

Martin Quack

Professor at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), where he leads the Molecular Kinetics and Spectroscopy Group.

Theodor W. Hänsch

Director of the Division of Laser Spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany) and professor in the Faculty of Physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Gerardo Delgado

Research Professor and Director of the Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC (Spain).

Hongkun Park

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics at Harvard University.

Douglas Abraham

Professor of Statistical Mechanics in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University (United Kingdom).

Bruce Whitelaw

Deputy Director and Head of the Developmental Biology Division at The Roslin Institute and Genus Chair of Animal Biotechnology in the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom).

Robin Lovell-Badge

Head of the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics at the Francis Crick Institute (London, United Kingdom). His research focuses on the genetic pathways leading to male-female differences.

Dario Alessi

Director of the Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, a Medical Research Council unit in the College of Life Sciences at Dundee University (United Kingdom).

Angelika Schnieke

Chair of Livestock Technology in the Department of Animal Sciences at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) (Germany). She has worked in the biotechnology industry and research centers in the United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland and Germany.

José Baselga

Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Institute of Oncology at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (Barcelona).

Mariano Barbacid

AXA-CNIO Professor of Molecular Oncology in the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO). Discoveror of the first human oncogene, in 1982.

Edward S. Rubin

Professor of Engineering and Public Policy and Alumni Chair Professor of Environmental Engineering and Science at Carnegie Mellon University (United States), where he was also founding director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies and the Environmental Institute.

Miquel Canals

Chairman of the Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Marine Geosciences Department at the University of Barcelona (Spain).

Carlos M. Duarte

Director of the Red Sea Research Center and holder of the Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

Bjorn Stevens

Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Hamburg, Germany), where he heads the Atmosphere in the Earth System Department.

Hans J. Schellnhuber

Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Germany).

Wilhelm Boland

Professor in the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (Jena, Germany). His main research topics include the induced defense of plants and the sequestration of plant metabolites by insects.

Pedro Jordano

Research Professor in the Department of Integrative Ecology at the Estación Biológica de Doñana (Sevilla, Spain) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

Gary Meffe

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida (United States). He has served as editor-in-chief and consulting editor of Conservation Biology, the sector’s most influential journal.

Joanna Burguer

Distinguished Professor of Biology at Rutgers University (United States).

Daniel Pauly

Professor of Fisheries at the University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre (Canada) and Principal Investigator of the Sea Around Us project.

Ramón López Mantaras

Research Professor with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and director of it’s Artificial Intelligence Research Institute.

Oussama Khatib

Director of the Robotics Laboratory and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University (United States).

Ramón López de Mántaras

Research Professor with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Director of its Artificial Intelligence Research Institute.

Nico de Rooij

Director of the Institute of Microengineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), where he heads the Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Laboratory. He is also Vice-President of the Swiss research and development company CSEM SA.

Ronald Ho

Hardware Architect at Oracle working on advanced research and development projects in VLSI (very-large-scale integration) processes, as well as in low-energy communication and computation, computer-aided design tools and silicon optics.

Andrea Goldsmith

Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and Junior Past President of the Information Theory Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the most influential professional association in the world of advanced technology, which she chaired in 2009.

Manuel Arellano

Professor of Econometrics in the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI) of Banco de España, he previously taught at Oxford University and the London School of Economics. President of the European Economic Association (EEA) in 2013 and of the Econometric Society in 2014.

Guido Tabellini

Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, where he also serves as Rector, he previously occupied teaching posts at Stanford and UCLA.

Hervé Moulin

George A. Peterkin Professor of Economic Theory at Rice University (Houston, United States).

Peyton Young

James Meade Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford, and Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University (United States).

José Manuel González-Páramo

Visiting Professor at IESE Business School, where his research focuses on the financial crisis and the reform of the institutional framework of the euro. He served on the Executive Board and Governing Council of the European Central Bank, which he joined from the Executive Board and Governing Council of the Banco de España.

José García Montalvo

Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics and Business at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain), he is also a Research Professor at the Valencian Institute of Economic Research (Ivie).

Norman Loayza

Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank (United States), he currently heads the World Bank Research Hub in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has worked with ministries, central banks, NGOs and universities to implement projects for policy reform and local capacity improvement.

Francesco Caselli

Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he also heads the Macro Program of the Centre for Economic Performance. His research interests are in macroeconomics, development economics, economic growth and economics and politics.

Jonathan Morduch

Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University (United States).

Alejandro Portes

Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology at Princeton University (United States).

Luis de Pablo

A largely self-taught musician who began composing at the age of twelve, he has over 150 works to his name in diverse genres including chamber, orchestral, vocal and electronic music, various concertos and five operas.

Dieter Torkewitz

Currently Emeritus Professor of Music Theory at Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts (Austria).

Siegfried Mauser

German pianist and musicologist, he is a celebrated performer of the works of 20th-century authors like Paul Hindemith and Wolfgang Rihm.

Hugues Dufourt

Composer and Emeritus Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France).

Jürg Stenzl

Professor of Musicology at the University of Salzburg (Austria). His main area of research is historical musicology, with the emphasis on the Middle Ages, the 20th century, the history of musical interpretation, and lm and music, especially the French Nouvelle Vague.

Ranko Markovic

Professor and Head of the BA in Music Program at Zurich University of the Arts (Switzerland), and past director and artistic director at Konservatorium Wien University.