5th Edition

Douglas Abraham

Professor of Statistical Mechanics in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University (United Kingdom)

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

Hongkun Park

Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Harvard 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)

Dario Alessi

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

Werner Arber

Emeritus Professor of Molecular Microbiology at Biozentrum (Switzerland) 1978 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Mariano Barbacid

AXA-CNIO Professor of Molecular Oncology in the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO)

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)

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

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)

Ramón López de Mántaras

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

Mateo Valero

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

Joos Vandewalle

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

Joanna Burger

Distinguished Professor of Biology at Rutgers University (United States)

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)

Gary K. Meffe

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida (United States)

Daniel Pauly

Professor of Fisheries at the University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre (Canada)

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

Kirsten Halsnaes

Head of the Climate Program at the Technical University of Denmark

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)

Kenneth J. Arrow

Emeritus Professor of Economics and of Operations Research at Stanford University (United States) Nobel Prize in Economics 1972

José Manuel González-Páramo

Visiting Professor at IESE Business School (Spain)

Andreu Mas-Colell

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

Joel Mokyr

Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics at Northwestern University (Illinois, United States)

Albrecht Ritschl

Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics (United Kingdom)

Jean Tirole

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

Philippe Albèra

Musician and musicologist, director of  Éditions Contrechamps (Switzerland)

Edith Canat de Chizy

A member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and the Institut de France

Cristóbal Halffter

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

Winrich Hopp

Director of Musikfest Berlin (Germany) and artistic director of the concert program Musica Viva run by Bayerischer Rundfunk (Germany)

Johannes Kalitzke

Composer and conductor

Martin Kaltenecker

Associate Professor of Musicology at Université Paris Diderot (France)

Ranko Markovic

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

Dimitri Vassilakis

Member of Ensemble Intercontemporain (France)

Pedro L. Alonso

Director of WHO Global Malaria Program (Switzerland)

Maricela Daniel

Spanish Representative of the United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR

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)

Francisco Pérez

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