PRIZE JURIES

Xueming Yang

Distinguished Fellow at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)

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)

Carmen Menoni

University Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University (United States)

Zakya H. Kafafi

Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh University (United States)

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).

Francisco Guinea

Research Professor at the IMDEA Nanoscience Institute (Spain).

Theodor W. Hänsch

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

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)

Ali Shilatifard

Chairman, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (United States)

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)

Lélia Delamarre

Group leader in the Department of Cancer Immunology at biotech company Genentech (United States)

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)

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 at Stanford University (United States).

Liz Burd

Pro Vice-Chancellor in Learning and Teaching at the University of Newcastle (Australia)

Regina Barzilay

Delta Electronics Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (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 Informatics at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

Yonglong Lu

Research Professor and Co-Director at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Guangchun Lei

Dean of the School of Nature Conservation at the Beijing Forestry University (China)  

Hanna Kokko

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

Gerardo Ceballos

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

Wilhelm Boland

Professor in the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (Jena, Germany).

Julie Winkler

Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University (United States)

Edward S. Rubin

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

Martin Heimann

Director Emeritus of the Department of Biogeochemical Systems at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (Germany)

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).

Scott Barrett

Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Columbia 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)

Jean Tirole

Honorary Chairman of the Fondation Jean-Jacques Laffont-Toulouse School of Economics (France) Nobel Prize in Economics 2014

Andreu Mas-Colell

Professor of Economics at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain)

Lucrezia Reichlin

Professor of Economics at the London Business School (United Kingdom)

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

Elihu Professor of Economics at Yale University (United States)

Manuel Arellano

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

Eric S. Maskin

Adams University Professor at Harvard University (United States) 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics

Colin Matthews

Music Director of the Britten-Pears Foundation, Founder and Executive Producer of NMC Recordings, and Executive Administrator of the Holst Foundation.

Nicholas Kenyon

Managing Director of the Barbican Centre (London, United Kingdom).

Tom Huizenga

Producer, reporter and editor for NPR Music (United States)

Cristóbal Halffter

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

Claire Chase

Flutist and founder of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), United States.

Pwyll AP Siôn

Professor in Music at the School of Music of Bangor University (United Kingdom)

Christina Scheppelmann

Artistic Director General of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (Spain).

Nicholas Cook

Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

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)

Antonio Ciccone

Chair for Macroeconomics and Financial Markets at the University of Mannheim (Germany)  

Joachim von Braun

Director at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) of the University of Bonn (Germany)