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Emmanuel Candès

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

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)  

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

Zakya H. Kafafi

Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh University (United States)

Carmen Menoni

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

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)

Xueming Yang

Distinguished Fellow at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)

Dario Alessi

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

Hagan Bayley

Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Oxford (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)

Regina Barzilay

School of Engineering Distinguished Professor for AI and Health at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)

Liz Burd

Pro Vice-Chancellor in Learning and Teaching at the University of Newcastle (Australia)

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)

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)

Joos Vandewalle

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

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

Julia Fischer

Professor of Primate Cognition at the University of Göttingen (Germany)

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)

Anna-Liisa Laine

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

Joanna E. Lambert

Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder (United States)

Rik Leemans

Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis at Wageningen University (Netherlands)

Guangchun Lei

Dean of the School of Nature Conservation at the Beijing Forestry University (China)  

Scott Barrett

Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Columbia University (United States)

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

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)

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)

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)

Jean Tirole

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

Fabrizio Zilibotti

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

Nicholas Cook

Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

Tom Huizenga

Producer, reporter and editor for NPR Music (United States)

Leila Josefowicz

Professional concert violinist (United States)

Andrew McGregor

Presenter at BBC Radio 3 (United Kingdom)

Alex Ross

Music critic and staff writer of The New Yorker (United States)

Pwyll AP Siôn

Professor in Music at the School of Music of Bangor University (United Kingdom)

Pedro L. Alonso

Director of WHO Global Malaria Program (Switzerland)

Joachim von Braun

Director at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) of the University of Bonn (Germany)

Antonio Ciccone

Chair for Macroeconomics and Financial Markets at the University of Mannheim (Germany)  

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)

Isabel Noguer

Director of the National Center for Epidemiology (Spain)

Francisco Pérez

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