7th Edition

Basic Sciences
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Ignacio Cirac

Director of the Theory Division of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Germany)

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Avelino Corma

Research Professor at the Institute of Chemical Technology of CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)  

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Trevor Hastie

John A. Overdeck Professor, Professor of Statistics, and Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University (United States)

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Nigel Hitchin

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

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Theodor W. Hänsch

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

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Martin Quack

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

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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)

Biology and Biomedicine
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Dario Alessi

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

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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)

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Óscar Marín

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

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Ursula Ravens

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

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Angelika Schnieke

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

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Bruce Whitelaw

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

Information and Communication Technologies
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Georg Gottlob

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

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Rudolf Kruse

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

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Ramón López de Mántaras

Research Professor with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Director of its Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (Spain)

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Mateo Valero

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

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Joos Vandewalle

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

Ecology and Conservation Biology
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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)

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Hanna Kokko

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

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Georgina Mace

Professor of Biodiversity and Ecosystems and Head of the Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research at University College London (United Kingdom).

Climate Change
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Sandrine Bony

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

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Miquel Canals

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

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Carlos M. Duarte

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

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Martin Heimann

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

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Edward S. Rubin

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

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Bjorn Stevens

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

Economics, Finance and Management
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Manuel Arellano

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

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Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

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

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Andreu Mas-Colell

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

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Eric S. Maskin

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

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Hélène Rey

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

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Jean Tirole

Honorary Chairman of the Fondation Jean-Jacques Laffont-Toulouse School of Economics (France) Nobel Prize in Economics 2014

Music and Opera
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Philippe Albèra

Musician and musicologist, director of  Éditions Contrechamps (Switzerland)

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Cristóbal Halffter

Associate Composer to the Madrid Symphony Orchestra and a member of the board of the Prince Pierre Foundation of Monaco

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Martin Kaltenecker

Associate Professor of Musicology at Université Paris Diderot (France)

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Tilman Kuttenkeuler

Managing Director of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Auditorium and Theatre Foundation (Spain).

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Ranko Markovic

Professor and Head of the BA in Music Program at Zurich University of the Arts (Switzerland)

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Paolo Pinamonti

Professor at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and director of the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples (Italy).

Development Cooperation
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Pedro L. Alonso

Director of WHO Global Malaria Program (Switzerland)

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José García Montalvo

Professor of Economics at ICREA-Academia Fellow of the Pompeu Fabra University (Spain)

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Vicente Larraga

Research Professor of the Vaccine and Gene Expression Unit at the Center for Biological Research (CSIC), (Spain)

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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)

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Clara Menéndez

Director of the Maternal, Child and Reproductive Health Initiative and Research Professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).

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Francisco Pérez

Professor of Economic Analysis at the University of Valencia and Research Director of the Valencian Institute of Economic Research (Ivie), (Spain)