PRIZE JURIES

Xueming Yang

Distinguished research fellow at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, where he chairs the Department of Chemical Physics.

Sandip Tiwari

Charles N. Mellowes Professor of Engineering at Cornell University (United States).

Martin Quack

Professor at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), where he heads the Molecular Kinetics and Spectroscopy Group.

Carmen Menoni

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

Zakya H. Kafafi

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

Nigel Hitchin

Emeritus Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom).

Trevor Hastie

John A. Overdeck Professor, Professor of Statistics, and Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University (United States).

Francisco Guinea

Research Professor at the IMDEA Nanoscience Institute (Spain).

Theodor W. Hänsch

Director of the Division of Laser Spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany) and professor in the Faculty of Physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Oscar Marín

Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King’s College London.

Bruce Whitelaw

Deputy Director and Head of the Developmental Biology Division at The Roslin Institute and Genus Chair of Animal Biotechnology in the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom).

Ali Shilatifard

Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at Northwestern University (United States), where he is also Robert Francis Furchgott Professor.  

Ursula Ravens

Senior Professor in the Department of Physiology at the Technical University of Dresden (TUD), (Germany).

Robin Lovell-Badge

Head of the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics at the Francis Crick Institute (London, United Kingdom).  

Lélia Delamarre

Group leader in the Department of Cancer Immunology at biotech company Genentech (United States).

Dario Alessi

Director of the Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, a Medical Research Council unit in the College of Life Sciences at Dundee University (United Kingdom).

Angelika Schnieke

Chair of Livestock Technology in the Department of Animal Sciences at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) (Germany).

Julie Winkler

Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University (United States).

Edward S. Rubin

Professor of Engineering and Public Policy and Alumni Chair Professor of Environmental Engineering and Science at Carnegie Mellon University (United States).

Martin Heimann

Director of the Department of Biogeochemical Systems at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and professor at Friedrich Schiller University (both Jena, Germany).

Miquel Canals

Chairman of the Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Marine Geosciences Department at the University of Barcelona (Spain).

Sandrine Bony

Senior scientist at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace (LMD/IPSL) in Paris, run jointly by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

Scott Barrett

Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at the School of International and Public Affairs and the Earth Institute of Columbia University (United States).

Carlos M. Duarte

Director of the Red Sea Research Center and holder of the Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

Bjorn Stevens

Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Hamburg, Germany), where he heads the Atmosphere in the Earth System Department.

Yonglong Lu

Research Professor and Co-Director at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Guangchun Lei

Dean of the School of Nature Conservation at Beijing Forestry University (China) and Vice Chairman of the National Wetland Science Committee.

Rik Leemans

Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis at Wageningen University (Netherlands).

Hanna Kokko

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

Gerardo Ceballos

Professor in the Instituto de Ecología at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Wilhelm Boland

Professor in the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (Jena, Germany).

Pedro Jordano

Research Professor in the Department of Integrative Ecology at the Estación Biológica de Doñana (Sevilla) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

Emily Bernhardt

Professor in the Department of Biology at Duke University (United States).

Joos Vandewalle

Emeritus professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven (Belgium), where he headed a division working on signals, identification, system theory and automation, computer security and industrial cryptography.

Rudolf Kruse

Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Magdeburg (Germany).

Oussama Khatib

Director of the Robotics Laboratory and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University (United States).

Liz Burd

Pro-Vice Chancellor in Learning and Teaching at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Regina Barzilay

Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States).

Ramón López de Mántaras

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

Georg Gottlob

Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) (Austria).

Jean Tirole

Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics, Scientific Director of the Institute for Industrial Economics (IDEI) and Chairman of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST).

Andreu Mas-Colell

Professor of Economics at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain).

Lucrezia Reichlin

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

Pinelopi K. Goldberg

William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Economics at Yale University (United States).

Manuel Arellano

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

Eric S. Maskin

Adams University Professor at Harvard University (United States).

José García Montalvo

Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics and Business at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain) and Research Professor at the Valencian Institute of Economic Research (Ivie).

Francisco Pérez

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

Norman Loayza

Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank (United States), he currently heads the World Bank Research Hub in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Vicente Larraga

Research Professor and former director of the Center for Biological Research of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), where he heads the Molecular Parasitology Laboratory (Madrid, Spain).

Antonio Ciccone

Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Mannheim (Germany) and the Department of Economics and Business at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain).

Joachim von Braun

Professor and Director of the Department for Economic and Technological Change at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) of the University of Bonn (Germany).

Colin Matthews

Music Director of the Britten-Pears Foundation, Founder and Executive Producer of NMC Recordings, and Executive Administrator of the Holst Foundation.

Nicholas Kenyon

Managing Director of the Barbican Centre (London, United Kingdom) since 2007.

Tom Huizenga

Music producer and reporter for NPR Music (United States).

Cristóbal Halffter

A guest conductor with Europe’s top orchestras since 1970, he is also Associate Composer to the Madrid Symphony Orchestra and a member of the board of the Prince Pierre Foundation of Monaco.

Claire Chase

Flutist and founder of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) (United States).

Pwyll AP Siôn

A musicologist and composer, he is currently Professor in Music at the School of Music of Bangor University (United Kingdom).

Christina Scheppelmann

Artistic Director General of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (Spain).

Nicholas Cook

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