COMMITTEE
6th Edition
Basic Sciences

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

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
Biology and Biomedicine

Óscar Marín
Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders 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)
Information and Communication Technologies

Joos Vandewalle
Honorary President of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (Belgium)

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

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)
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)

Sandrine Bony
Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Sorbonne University (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

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