FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE AWARDS

Emmanuel Candès

Barnum-Simons Professor in Mathematics and Statistics. Stanford University (United States)

María José García Borge

Research Professor. Institute for the Structure of Matter (IEM)-CSIC (Spain)

Nigel Hitchin

Emeritus Savilian Professor of Geometry. Mathematical Institute. University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

Theodor W. Hänsch

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

Aitziber López Cortajarena

Ikerbasque Research Professor, Scientific Director and Biomolecular Nanotechnology Group Leader. CIC biomaGUNE, Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials (Spain)

Martin Quack

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

Sandip Tiwari

Charles N. Mellowes Professor in Engineering, Emeritus. Cornell University (United States). 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

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 Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at the King’s College London and MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 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)

Ali Shilatifard

Robert Francis Furchgott Professor of Biochemistry and Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (United States)

Regina Barzilay

School of Engineering Distinguished Professor for AI and Health and MacArthur Fellow. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. United States.

Georg Gottlob

Professor of Informatics at the University of Calabria (Italy) and Emeritus Professor of Informatics at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom).

Ron Ho

Corporate Vice President, R&D Hardware. 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)

Daniela Rus

Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. United States.

Bernhard Schölkopf

Scientific Director of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen and Director of the Empirical Inference Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Germany

Joos Vandewalle

Honorary President of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven.

Manuel Arellano

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

Sir Richard Blundell

David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at University College London (United Kingdom). Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management in its 7th edition. 

Antonio Ciccone

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

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

William Nordhaus Professor of Economics and Global Affairs. Yale University. United States.

Andreu Mas-Colell

Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pompeu Fabra University and Barcelona School of Economics (Spain). BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management.

Eric S. Maskin

Adams University Professor. Departamento de Economía. Universidad de Harvard (Estados Unidos). Premio Nobel de Economía.

Lucrezia Reichlin

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

Fabrizio Zilibotti

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