3rd 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).

Werner Arber

Emeritus Professor of Molecular Microbiology at Biozentrum (Switzerland), and Nobel Laureate in Medicine for the discovery of restriction enzymes.

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).

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).

Sergio Alonso

Professor of Meteorology in the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain).

Kirsten Halsnaes

Head of the Climate Program at the Technical University of Denmark. Her research topics include the economics of climate change, energy and climate change policies, sustainable development and development economics.

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.

Daniel Simberloff

Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Tennessee (United States), where he is also Director of the Institute for Biological Invasions.

Paul Brakefield

Professor of Zoology at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), where he is also the Director of the University Museum of Zoology.

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.

Andreu Mas-Colell

Professor of Economics at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain). He spent 25 years teaching and researching at the universities of California (Berkeley) and Harvard.

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.

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.

Vicente Larraga

Research Professor and former director of the Center for Biological Research of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), where he heads the Molecular Parasitology Laboratory (Madrid, Spain). He is currently working on the development of recombinant vaccines against leishmaniasis, and gene activation during the protective response to the parasite.

José Lasa

Research Professor in the Aula Dei Experimental Center, CSIC (Spain).

Ruth Rama

Research Professor at the Institute of Geography, Economics and Demography of the Center for Human and Social Sciences, CSIC (Spain). Her areas of research interest are the food and beverages industry, agribusiness, multinationals, networks of firms and innovation.

Pedro Alonso

Director of the World Health Organization’s Global Malaria Programme in Geneva (Switzerland), which coordinates the organization’s global efforts to control and eliminate malaria and sets evidence-based norms, standards, policies and guidelines to support malaria-affected countries around the world.

Cristóbal Halffter

A guest conductor with Europe’s top orchestras since 1970, he is also Associate Composer to the Madrid Symphony Orchestra and a member of the board of the Prince Pierre Foundation of Monaco, a post he also occupied up to 2009 with the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.

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.