8th Edition

Sandrine Bony

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

Nina Buchmann

Professor in the Department of Environmental Systems Science at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich (Switzerland).

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)

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)

Rik Leemans

Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis at Wageningen University (Netherlands)

Georgina Mace

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

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)

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

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)

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)

Nina Buchmann

Professor in the Department of Environmental Systems Science at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich (Switzerland).

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)

Rik Leemans

Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis at Wageningen University (Netherlands)

Georgina Mace

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

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)

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

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)

Philippe Albèra

Musician and musicologist, director of  Éditions Contrechamps (Switzerland)

Winrich Hopp

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

Martin Kaltenecker

Associate Professor of Musicology at Université Paris Diderot (France)

Tilman Kuttenkeuler

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

Ranko Markovic

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

Paolo Pinamonti

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

Gianni Possio

Professor of Composition at Milan Conservatory and Artistic Director of music publisher Rugginenti (Italy).

Massimo A. Torrefranca

Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (Israel).

Dimitri Vassilakis

Member of Ensemble Intercontemporain (France)

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)

Clara Menéndez

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

Antoni Plasència

Director General of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) and Medical Advisor in International Health at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (Spain).

Francisco Pérez

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