FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE AWARDS

Emmanuel Candès

Barnum-Simons Professor in Mathematics and Statistics of the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics at Stanford University (United States)

María José García Borge

Research Professor. Institute of the Structure of Matter (IEM), CSIC. Spain.

Nigel Hitchin

Emeritus Savilian Professor of Geometry in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

Theodor W. Hänsch

Director of the Division of Laser Spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Germany) 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics

Aitziber López Cortajarena

Ikerbasque Research Professor, Scientific Director and Biomolecular Nanotechnology Group Leader. CIC biomaGUNE, Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials. Spain

Martin Quack

Professor and Head of Molecular Kinetics and Spectroscopy Group, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry at ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

Sandip Tiwari

Charles N. Mellowes Professor of Engineering at Cornell University (United States) and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (India)

Dario Alessi

Director of the MCR Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit in the College of Life Sciences at Dundee University (United Kingdom)

Lélia Delamarre

Director and Distinguished Scientist, Department of Cancer Immunology, Genentech (United States)

Robin Lovell-Badge, CBE

Principal Group Leader and Head of the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics at the Francis Crick Institute (United Kingdom)

Óscar Marín

Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at King’s College London (United Kingdom)

Ursula Ravens

Professor Emerita in the Carl Gustav Carus School of Medicine at the Technical University of Dresden (Germany)

Angelika Schnieke

Emerita of Excellence in the School of Life Sciences at the Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Ali Shilatifard

Robert Francis Furchgott Professor of Biochemistry and Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (United States)

Bruce Whitelaw

Director of the Roslin Institute at University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)

Georg Gottlob

Professor of Informatics at the University of Calabria and Emeritus Professor of Informatics at the University of Oxford

Ron Ho

Corporate Vice President, Hardware, at Lattice Semiconductor (United States)

Oussama Khatib

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

Rudolf Kruse

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

Mario Piattini

Professor of Computer Languages and Systems at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)

Bernhard Schölkopf

Director of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Tubinga, Germany)

Joos Vandewalle

Honorary President of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (Belgium)

Miguel Bastos Araújo

Research Professor in the Department of Biogeography and Global Change at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC)

Emily S. Bernhardt

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Biology at Duke University (United States)

Paul M. Brakefield

Professor of Zoology and Emeritus Director of the Museum of Zoology at the University of Cambridge

María Begoña García

Research scientist in the Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Restoration at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (CSIC) (Spain)

Pedro Jordano

Research Professor in the Department of Integrative Ecology at Doñana Biological Station, CSIC and an Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Ecology at the University of Seville (Spain)

Rik Leemans

Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis at Wageningen University (Netherlands)

Nuria Marbà

Research Professor in the Global Change Research Group. Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (UIB-CSIC). Spain.

Sandrine Bony

Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Sorbonne University (France)

Miquel Canals

Director of the Sustainable Blue Economy Chair . University of Barcelona (Spain)  

Carlos M. Duarte

Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Saudi Arabia

José Manuel Gutiérrez

Director of the Instituto de Física de Cantabria, IFCA (CSIC-University of Cantabria, Spain)

Martin Heimann

Director Emeritus of the Department of Biogeochemical Systems at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (Germany)

Edward S. Rubin

Alumni Chair Professor of Environmental Engineering and Science Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University (United States)  

Bjorn Stevens

Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Hamburg, Germany)

Paul Wassmann

Professor Emeritus, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology. UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Julie A. Winkler

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

Manuel Arellano

Professor of Economics in the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI) of Banco de España (Spain)

Antonio Ciccone

Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Mannheim (Germany)

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

Elihu Professor of Economics and Global Affairs at Yale University (United States)

Andreu Mas-Colell

Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pompeu Fabra University and Barcelona School of Economics (Spain)

Eric S. Maskin

Adams University Professor at Harvard University (United States) 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics

Lucrezia Reichlin

Professor of Economics at the London Business School (United Kingdom)

Fabrizio Zilibotti

Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics at Yale University (United States)

Isabel Burdiel

Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Valencia (Spain)

Bruno Cautrès

Research Fellow of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), attached to CEVIPOF, the Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po in Paris (France)

Brian Parkinson

Professor of Social Psychology. University of Oxford. United Kingdom.

Simone Schnall

Professor in Experimental Social Psychology. Department of Psychology. University of Cambridge. United Kingdom.

Mauro Bucarelli

Artistic Coordinator of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (Italy)

Silvia Colasanti

Composer (Italy)

Víctor García de Gomar

Artistic Director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Spain)

Raquel García-Tomás

Composer (Spain)

Pedro Halffter Caro

Conductor and composer (Spain)

Joan Matabosch

Artistic Director. Teatro Real (Spain)

Gabriela Ortiz Torres

Composer and Professor of Composition at the National Autonomous University of Mexico