COMMITTEE
12th Edition
Basic Sciences

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

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
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)

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)
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)

Oussama Khatib
Professor of Computer Science and and Director of the Robotics Laboratory at Stanford University (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)
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)

Eric S. Maskin
Adams University Professor at Harvard University (United States) 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics
Humanities and Social Sciences

Simone Schnall
Reader in Experimental Social Psychology. Department of Psychology. University of Cambridge. United Kingdom.

Brian Parkinson
Professor of Social Psychology. Medical Sciences Division. University of Oxford. United Kingdom.

Cees J. H. Midden
Professor of Human-Technology Interaction. Eindhoven University of Technology. The Netherlands.