1st Edition

Douglas Abraham

Professor of Statistical Mechanics in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University (United Kingdom)

Gerardo Delgado

Research Professor and Director of the Instituto de Física Fundamental of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Theodor W. Hänsch

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

Hongkun Park

Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Harvard University (United States)

Martin Quack

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

Sandip Tiwari

Charles N. Mellowes Professor of Engineering at Cornell University (United States) and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (India)

Dario Alessi

Director of the MCR Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit in the College of Life Sciences at Dundee University (United Kingdom)

José Baselga

Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (United States), Director of the Institute of Oncology at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (Spain)

Robin Lovell-Badge, CBE

Principal Group Leader and Head of the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics at the Francis Crick Institute (United Kingdom)

Juan Modolell

Former CSIC Research Professor at the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center (Spain)

Angelika Schnieke

Emerita of Excellence in the School of Life Sciences at the Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Bruce Whitelaw

Director of the Roslin Institute at University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)

Torsten Wiesel

General Secretary of the Human Frontier Science Program (France) 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Andrea Goldsmith

Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University (United States)

Ron Ho

Corporate Vice President, R&D Hardware. Lattice Semiconductor. United States

Oussama Khatib

Professor of Computer Science 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)

Nico de Rooij

Director of the Institute of Microengineering and the Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Vice-President of CSEM SA (Switzerland)

Sergio Verdú

Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University (United States)

Joanna Burger

Distinguished Professor of Biology at Rutgers University (United States)

Daniel P. Faith

Researcher at the Australian Museum (Australia)

Robert D. Holt

Professor of Ecology at the University of Florida (United States)

Pedro Jordano

Research Professor in the Department of Integrative Ecology at Doñana Biological Station, CSIC and an Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Ecology at the University of Seville (Spain)

Gary K. Meffe

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida (United States)

Daniel Pauly

Professor of Fisheries at the University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre (Canada)

Sergio Alonso

Professor of Meteorology in the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain)

Kenneth J. Davis

Researcher in the Department of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University (United States)

Carlos M. Duarte

Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Saudi Arabia

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor for Theoretical Physics at Potsdam University (Germany)

Edward S. Rubin

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

Bjorn Stevens

Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Hamburg, Germany)

Timothy J. Besley

Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom)

José Manuel González-Páramo

Visiting Professor at IESE Business School (Spain)

Hervé Moulin

George A. Peterkin Professor of Economic Theory at Rice University (Houston, United States)

Guido Tabellini

Professor of Economics and Rector at Bocconi University (Italy)

Peyton Young

James Meade Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford, and Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University (United States)

José García Montalvo

Professor of Economics at ICREA-Academia Fellow of the Pompeu Fabra University (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)

Jonathan Morduch

Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University (United States)

Mark R. Rosenzweig

Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University (United States)

Jonathan Temple

Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol (United Kingdom)

Reinhard Brembeck

Music critic for the daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)

Antón García-Abril

Author of the Medina del Campo Auditorium and School of Music and the Music Conservatory and SGAE headquarters in Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

Armin Köhler

Music critic and director of the contemporary music festival Donaueschingen Musiktage (Germany)

Helmut Lachenmann

Composer and member of the teaching staff of the Hannover Conservatory (Germany)

Luis de Pablo

Professor of Composition and member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Spain)

Ramón Sanabria

Professor at the Barcelona School of Architecture (Spain)

Wulf Weinmann

Managing Director of German music label NEOS

Richard Whitehouse

Art critic and columnist with the British magazine Gramophone