9th edition

Xueming Yang

Distinguished research fellow at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, where he chairs the Department of Chemical Physics. His research interests lie in the area of experimental chemical dynamics and spectroscopy in the gas phase and at the interfaces.

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.

Carmen Menoni

University Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University (United States).

Zakya H. Kafafi

Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh University (United States). She pioneered work in organic light-emitting materials and devices, leading to applications in flat panel displays and solid state lighting.

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.

Trevor Hastie

John A. Overdeck Professor, Professor of Statistics, and Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University (United States). He is the author of major contributions in applied statistics, statistical computing, and data mining,

Francisco Guinea

Research Professor at the IMDEA Nanoscience Institute and a former professor at the University of Manchester (United Kingdom).

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.

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).

Ali Shilatifard

Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at Northwestern University, (United States) where he is also Robert Francis Furchgott Professor. He is a leader in the eld of chromatin and transcription biology and leukemia research, and author of pioneering work in epi- genetics.

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.

Lélia Delamarre

Group leader in the Department of Cancer Immunology at biotech company Genentech (United States). Her research focuses on the modulation of dendritic and T-cell functions.

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.

Julie Winkler

Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University (United States).

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.

Martin Heimann

Director of the Department of Biogeochemical Systems at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (Jena, Germany), he is a professor at Friedrich Schiller University (Jena) and guest professor at Helsinki University.

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.

Scott Barrett

Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at the School of International and Public Affairs and the Earth Institute of Columbia University (United States). His research focuses on transnational and global challenges from climate change to infectious diseases.

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.

Yonglong Lu

Research Professor and Co-Director at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Guangchun Lei

Dean of the School of Nature Conservation at Beijing Forestry University (China) and Vice Chairman of the National Wetland Science Committee.

Rik Leemans

Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis at Wageningen University (Netherlands).

Hanna Kokko

Professor of Evolutionary Ecology in the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich (Switzerland).

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.

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).

Emily Bernhardt

Professor in the Department of Biology at Duke University (United States) where she works in biogeochemistry, ecosystem ecology, aquatic ecology, urban ecology and restoration science.

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.

Rudolf Kruse

Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Magdeburg (Germany).

Oussama Khatib

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

Liz Burd

Pro-Vice Chancellor in Learning and Teaching at the University of Newcastle (Australia). An expert in computer science.

Regina Barzilay

Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States). Her research focuses on natural language models and computational linguistics, with particular attention to multilingual learning.

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).

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.

Lucrezia Reichlin

Professor of Economics at the London Business School. Her research is in applied time series, the business cycle and monetary policy.

Pinelopi K. Goldberg

William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Economics at Yale University (United States).

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.

Eric S. Maskin

Adams University Professor at Harvard University, where he researches into game theory, political economics, the economics of inequality, and the advantages and drawbacks of intellectual property.

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).

Francisco Pérez

Professor of Economic Analysis at the University of Valencia (Spain) and Research Director of the Valencian Institute of Eco- nomic 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.

Antonio Ciccone

Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Mannheim (Germany) and the Department of Economics and Business at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain). He is also an ICREA Research Professor and a Fellow of CESifo.

Joachim von Braun

Professor and Director of the Department for Economic and Technological Change at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) of the University of Bonn (Germany).

Colin Matthews

Music Director of the Britten-Pears Foundation, Founder and Executive Producer of NMC Recordings, and Executive Administrator of the Holst Foundation. He is co-director of the Aldeburgh Composition Course, and composition director of the London Symphony Orchestra’s Panufnik Scheme.

Nicholas Kenyon

Managing Director of the Barbican Centre since 2007, he has been director of the BBC Proms (1996-2007), editor of Early Music (1983-1992), and a music critic for The New Yorker, The Times and The Observer.

Tom Huizenga

Music producer and reporter for NPR Music (United States). He is a regular contributor of stories about classical music to NPR’s news programs and hosts the station’s blog Deceptive Cadence.

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.

Claire Chase

Flutist and founder of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), winner of the Ensemble of the Year Award in 2014 from Musical America Worldwide, and the 2010 Trailblazer Award from the American Music Center for its artist-driven organizational model.

Pwyll AP Siôn

A musicologist and composer, he is currently Professor in Music at the School of Music of Bangor University (United Kingdom). His research and teaching interests include minimalist music, the new tonality of the 21st century and reference and quotation in contemporary music.

Christina Scheppelmann

Artistic Director General of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (Spain), in 2012 she was the first Director General of the Royal Opera House Muscat (Oman), the first of its kind in the Gulf Region.

Nicholas Cook

Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). He was formerly Professorial Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he headed the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM).