COMMITTEE
10th Edition
Basic Sciences

Emmanuel Candès
Barnum-Simons Professor in Mathematics and Statistics of the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics at Stanford University (United States)

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

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)

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)

Ali Shilatifard
Robert Francis Furchgott Professor of Biochemistry and Pediatrics at 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)
Information and Communication Technologies

Mario Piattini
Professor of Computer Languages and Systems at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)

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)

Regina Barzilay
Delta Electronics Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)
Ecology and Conservation Biology

Joanna E. Lambert
Professor of Environmental Studies, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder (United States)

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

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

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 / Sorbonne University (France)

Scott Barrett
Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Columbia University (United States)
Economics, Finance and Management

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

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

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)