COMMITTEE
1st Edition
Basic Sciences

Martin Quack
Head of Molecular Kinetics and Spectroscopy Group, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry at ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

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

Gerardo Delgado
Research Professor and Director of the Instituto de Física Fundamental of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Biology and Biomedicine

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)

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)

Dario Alessi
Director of the Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit in the College of Life Sciences at Dundee University (United Kingdom)
Information and Communication Technologies

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

Ramón López de Mántaras
Research Professor with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Director of its Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (Spain)

Sergio Verdú
Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University (United States)
Climate Change

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

Carlos M. Duarte
Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia)

Kenneth J. Davis
Researcher in the Department of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University (United States)
Economics, Finance and Management

Timothy J. Besley
Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom)

Hervé Moulin
George A. Peterkin Professor of Economic Theory at Rice University (Houston, United States)
Arts

Armin Köhler
Music critic and director of the contemporary music festival Donaueschingen Musiktage (Germany)

Luis de Pablo
Professor of Composition and member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Spain)