PRIZE JURIES

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)

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).

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)  

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)

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)

Angelika Schnieke

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

Mariano Barbacid

AXA-CNIO Professor of Molecular Oncology in the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO).

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)  

Sandrine Bony

Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD) of Sorbonne University (France).

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)

Kirsten Halsnaes

Head of the Climate Program at the Technical University of Denmark.

Gerardo Ceballos

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

Pedro Jordano

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

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).

Jordi Bascompte

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

Joos Vandewalle

President of the 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)

Oussama Khatib

Director of the Robotics Laboratory and 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.

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)

Mateo Valero

Director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación and a professor at BarcelonaTech (UPC), in Spain.

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 and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Spain)

Manuel Arellano

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

Albrecht Ritschl

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

Kenneth J. Arrow

Emeritus Professor of Economics and of Operations Research at Stanford University (United States). Nobel Prize in Economics 1972.

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 (United States) and heads the World Bank Research Hub in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

Pedro L. Alonso

Director of WHO Global Malaria Program (Switzerland)

Cristóbal Halffter

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

Johannes Kalitzke

Composer and conductor.

Edith Canat de Chizy

A member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and the Institut de France.

Dimitri Vassilakis

Member of Ensemble Intercontemporain (France).

Martin Kaltenecker

Associate Professor of Musicology at Université Paris Diderot (France).

Winrich Hopp

Director of Musikfest Berlin (Germany) and artistic director of the concert program Musica Viva run by Bayerischer Rundfunk (Germany).

Ranko Markovic

Professor and Head of the BA in Music Program at Zurich University of the Arts (Switzerland).

Philippe Albèra

Musician and musicologist, director of  Éditions Contrechamps (Switzerland).