PRIZE JURIES

Emmanuel Candès

Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics of the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics at Stanford University (United States).

Xueming Yang

Distinguished Fellow at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China).

Sandip Tiwari

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

Martin Quack

Head of Molecular Kinetics and Spectroscopy Group at ETH Zurich (Switzerland).

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).

Theodor W. Hänsch

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

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).  

Hagan Bayley

Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom).

Óscar Marín

Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King’s College London (United Kingdom).

Bruce Whitelaw

Deputy Director (Partnerships) and Genus Chair of Animal Biotechnology in the The Roslin Institute and RDSVS at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom).

Ali Shilatifard

Robert Francis Furchgott Professor of Biochemistry and Pediatrics at Northwestern University (United States).

Ursula Ravens

Senior Professor at the Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine at the University Heart Center of the University of Freiburg (Germany).

Robin Lovell-Badge

Senior Group Leader and Head of 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 in the College of Life Sciences at Dundee University (United Kingdom).

Angelika Schnieke

Chair of Livestock Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), in Germany.

Julie Winkler

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

Edward S. Rubin

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

Martin Heimann

Director Emeritus of the Department of Biogeochemical Systems at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (Germany).

Miquel Canals

Chairman of the Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics at the University of Barcelona (Spain).  

Sandrine Bony

Director of Research at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France)

Scott Barrett

Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, 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).

Joanna E. Lambert

Professor of Biological Anthropology and Environmental Studies University of Colorado Boulder (United States).

Anna Liisa Laine

Professor in Plant Ecology of the Research Program in Organismal and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Helsinki (Finland).

Julia Fischer

Professor of Primate Cognition at the University of Göttingen (Germany).

Guangchun Lei

Dean of the School of Nature Conservation at the Beijing Forestry University (China).  

Rik Leemans

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

Pedro Jordano

Research Professor in the Department of Integrative Ecology at the Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC (Spain).

Emily Bernhardt

Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor in the Department of Biology at Duke University (United States).

Paul Brakefield

Professor of Zoology and Director of the University Museum of Zoology at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom).

Jordi Bascompte

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

Mario Piattini

Professor of Computer Languages and Systems at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain).

Joos Vandewalle

President of Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium.

Rudolf Kruse

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

Liz Burd

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

Regina Barzilay

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

Georg Gottlob

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

Ron Ho

Senior Director of Engineering at Programmable Solutions Group in Intel Corporation (United States).

Jean Tirole

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

Andreu Mas-Colell

Emeritus Professor of Economics at Pompeu Fabra University & Barcelona GSE (Spain).

Lucrezia Reichlin

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

Pinelopi K. Goldberg

Elihu Professor of Economics at Yale University (United States).

Manuel Arellano

Professor of Economics 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). 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Fabrizio Zilibotti

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

Isabel Noguer

Director of the National Center for Epidemiology (Spain).

Vicente Larraga

Research Professor of the Vaccine and Gene Expression Unit at the Center for Biological Research (CSIC), (Spain).

José García Montalvo

Professor of Economics at ICREA-Academia Fellow of the Pompeu Fabra University (Spain).

Francisco Pérez

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

Norman Loayza

Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).

Antonio Ciccone

Chair for Macroeconomics and Financial Markets at the University of Mannheim (Germany).  

Joachim von Braun

Director at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) of the University of Bonn (Germany).

Pedro L. Alonso

Director of WHO Global Malaria Program (Switzerland).

Alex Ross

Music critic and staff writer of The New Yorker (United States).

Andrew McGregor

Broadcaster at BBC Radio 3 (United Kingdom).

Leila Josefowicz

Professional concert violinist (United States).

Tom Huizenga

Producer, reporter and editor for NPR Music (United States).

Pwyll AP Siôn

Professor in Music at the School of Music of Bangor University (United Kingdom).

Nicholas Cook

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