COMMITTEE
4th 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

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)
Biology and Biomedicine

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)

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

Francisco Sánchez Madrid
Professor of Immunology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Head of the Department of Immunology in La Princesa University Hospital and group leader in the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC)
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)
Ecology and Conservation Biology

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-CSIC (Spain)
Climate Change

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

Miquel Canals
Director of the Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics. University of Barcelona (Spain)
Economics, Finance and Management

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)

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)

François Bourguignon
Director of the Paris School of Economics and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)
Music and Opera

Cristóbal Halffter
Associate Composer to the Madrid Symphony Orchestra and a member of the board of the Prince Pierre Foundation of Monaco

Dieter Torkewitz
Emeritus Professor of Music Theory at Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts (Austria)

Siegfried Mauser
President of the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts and Head of the Music Department of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (Germany)

Hugues Dufourt
Composer and Emeritus Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
Development Cooperation

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)