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1st Edition
Basic Sciences
Douglas Abraham
Professor of Statistical Mechanics in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University (United Kingdom)
Gerardo Delgado
Research Professor and Director of the Instituto de Física Fundamental of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Theodor W. Hänsch
Director of the Division of Laser Spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Germany) 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics
Hongkun Park
Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Harvard University (United States)
Biology and Biomedicine
Dario Alessi
Director of the MCR Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit in the College of Life Sciences at Dundee University (United Kingdom)
José Baselga
Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (United States), Director of the Institute of Oncology at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (Spain)
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)
Information and Communication Technologies
Oussama Khatib
Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Robotics Laboratory 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 (Spain)
Ecology and Conservation Biology
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)
Climate Change
Kenneth J. Davis
Researcher in the Department of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University (United States)
Carlos M. Duarte
Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Saudi Arabia
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor for Theoretical Physics at Potsdam University (Germany)
Development Cooperation
José García Montalvo
Professor of Economics at ICREA-Academia Fellow of the Pompeu Fabra University (Spain)
Norman Loayza
Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank (United States) and heads the World Bank Research Hub in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
Arts
Antón García-Abril
Author of the Medina del Campo Auditorium and School of Music and the Music Conservatory and SGAE headquarters in Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Armin Köhler
Music critic and director of the contemporary music festival Donaueschingen Musiktage (Germany)