COMMITTEE
7th Edition
Basic Sciences
Ignacio Cirac
Director of the Theory Division of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Germany)
Avelino Corma
Research Professor at the Institute of Chemical Technology of CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)
Trevor Hastie
John A. Overdeck Professor, Professor of Statistics, and Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University (United States)
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
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)
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)
Information and Communication Technologies
Georg Gottlob
Professor of Informatics at the University of Calabria and Emeritus Professor of Informatics at the University of Oxford
Rudolf Kruse
Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Magdeburg (Germany)
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
Sandrine Bony
Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Sorbonne University (France)
Carlos M. Duarte
Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Saudi Arabia
Martin Heimann
Director Emeritus of the Department of Biogeochemical Systems at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (Germany)
Economics, Finance and Management
Manuel Arellano
Professor of Economics in the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI) of Banco de España (Spain)
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)
Music and Opera
Cristóbal Halffter
Associate Composer to the Madrid Symphony Orchestra and a member of the board of the Prince Pierre Foundation of Monaco
Tilman Kuttenkeuler
Managing Director of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Auditorium and Theatre Foundation (Spain).
Development Cooperation
José García Montalvo
Professor of Economics at ICREA-Academia Fellow of the Pompeu Fabra University (Spain)
Vicente Larraga
Research Professor of the Vaccine and Gene Expression Unit at the Center for Biological Research (CSIC), (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)