11th Edition

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

Antonio Ciccone

Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Mannheim (Germany)

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)

Dieter Birnbacher

Emeritus Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Germany)

Isabel Burdiel

Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Valencia (Spain)

Christian Illies

Chair of Philosophy at Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg (Germany)

Stephen Mumford

Professor of Metaphysics in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University (United Kingdom)

Scott Soames

Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Southern California (United States)

Mauricio Suárez

Professor in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

Mauro Bucarelli

Artistic Coordinator of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (Italy)

Joana Carneiro

Principal Conductor of the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa (Portugal)

Víctor García de Gomar

Artistic Director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Spain)

Pedro Halffter Caro

Conductor and composer (Spain)

Andrew McGregor

Presenter at BBC Radio 3 (United Kingdom)