PRIZE JURIES

Sandip Tiwari

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

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).

Hongkun Park

Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Harvard University (United States)

Douglas Abraham

Professor of Statistical Mechanics in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University (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)

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)

Angelika Schnieke

Chair of Livestock Technology at the Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Juan Modolell

Former CSIC Research Professor at the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center (Spain).

Torsten Wiesel

General Secretary of the Human Frontier Science Program. 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

José Baselga

Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (United States), Director of the Institute of Oncology at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (Barcelona).

Oussama Khatib

Professor of Computer Science 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.

Sergio Verdú

Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University (United States).

Nico de Rooij

Director of the Institute of Microengineering and the Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). Vice-President of CSEM SA.

Ron Ho

Director of Silicon Engineering at Facebook (United States)

Andrea Goldsmith

Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University (United States).

Daniel P. Faith

Researcher at the Australian Museum.

Robert D. Holt

Professor of Ecology at the University of Florida (United States).

Ilkka Hanski

Researcher at the University of Helsinki (Finland).

Gary K. Meffe

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida (United States).

Joanna Burger

Distinguished Professor of Biology at Rutgers University (United States).

Daniel Pauly

Professor of Fisheries at the University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre (Canada).

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)

Bjorn Stevens

Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Hamburg, Germany)

Kenneth J. Davis

Researcher in the Department of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University (United States).

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor for Theoretical Physics at Potsdam University (Germany).

Sergio Alonso

Professor of Meteorology in the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain).

Timothy J. Besley

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

Guido Tabellini

Professor of Economics and Rector at Bocconi University (Italy).

Hervé Moulin

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

Peyton Young

James Meade Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford, and Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University (United States).

José Manuel González-Páramo

Visiting Professor at IESE Business School (Spain)

José García Montalvo

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

Norman Loayza

Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank (United States) and heads the World Bank Research Hub in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

Mark R. Rosenzweig

Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University (United States).

Jonathan Temple

Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol (United Kingdom).

Jonathan Morduch

Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University (United States).