5th 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.

Nigel Hitchin

Emeritus Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom). His main research areas are differential and algebraic geometry and its links to theoretical physics.

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.

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).

Ignacio Cirac

Director of the Theory Division of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany), his research concerns the quantum theory of information, particularly the development of a quantum computing system which will enable the design of faster algorithms, the key to more efficient and secure communications.

Avelino Corma

Research Professor at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ), a joint research center of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) and the Spanish National Re- search Council (CSIC), which Corma founded in 1990 and led up to 2010.

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).

Ursula Ravens

Senior Professor in the Department of Physiology at the Technical University of Dresden (TUD), (Germany).

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.

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).

Sandrine Bony

Senior scientist at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace (LMD/IPSL) in Paris, run jointly by the Centre National de la Recherche Scienti que and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

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.

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.

Gerardo Ceballos

Professor in the Instituto de Ecología at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His research areas are primarily animal ecology, biogeography and nature conservation.

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.

Jordi Bascompte

Professor of Ecology in the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), where he leads an interdisciplinary group on ecological networks.

Ramón López Mantaras

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

Joos Vandewalle

Emeritus professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven (Belgium), where he headed a division working on signals, identification, system theory and automation, computer security and industrial cryptography.

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.

Georg Gottlob

Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) (Austria).

Mateo Valero

Director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación and a professor at BarcelonaTech (UPC) (Spain).

Jean Tirole

Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics, Scientific Director of the Institute for Industrial Economics (IDEI) and Chairman of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST). His research areas are industrial organization, game theory and macroeconomics, and the relations between economics and psychology.

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.

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.

Joel Mokyr

Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics at Northwestern University (Illinois).

Albrecht Ritschl

Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics.

Kenneth J. Arrow

Emeritus Professor of Economics and of Operations Research at Stanford University. His impossibility theorem placed him at the forefront of the modern economic theory of social choice and earned him the Nobel Prize in Economics.

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).

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.

Maricela Daniel

Spanish Representative of the United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR.

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.

Johannes Kalitzke

Composer and conductor. He has been guest conductor with numerous ensembles and symphony orchestras, including Collegium Novum, Ensemble Recherche and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and has written pieces on commission for formations like the Südwestrundfunk and Berlin symphony orchestras.

Edith Canat de Chizy

A member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and the first woman composer admitted to the Institut de France.

Dimitri Vassilakis

Trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse in Paris, where he won first prize for piano.

Martin Kaltenecker

Associate Professor of Musicology at Université Paris Diderot and co-founder of contemporary music magazine Entretemps, he has also worked as a producer for radio broadcaster France Musique.

Winrich Hopp

Director of Musikfest Berlin, an annual event that brings together orchestras, choirs and ensembles from all round the world, each year under a different theme.

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.

Philippe Albèra

This musician and musicologist founded Contrechamps in 1977, remaining at its head until 2005, followed by Ensemble Contrechamps (1980), Revue Contrechamps (1983) and Éditions Contrechamps (1991), which he continues to run today.