1st edition

Sandip Tiwari

Charles N. Mellowes Professor of Engineering at Cornell University (United States).

Martin Quack

Professor at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), where he heads the Molecular Kinetics and Spectroscopy Group.

Theodor W. Hänsch

Director of the Division of Laser Spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany) and professor in the Faculty of Physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Gerardo Delgado

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

Hongkun Park

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics at Harvard University (United States).

Douglas Abraham

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

Bruce Whitelaw

Deputy Director and Head of the Developmental Biology Division at The Roslin Institute and Genus Chair of Animal Biotechnology in the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom).

Robin Lovell-Badge

Head of the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics at the Francis Crick Institute (London, United Kingdom).  

Dario Alessi

Director of the Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, a Medical Research Council unit in the College of Life Sciences at Dundee University (United Kingdom).

Angelika Schnieke

Chair of Livestock Technology in the Department of Animal Sciences at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) (Germany).

Juan Modolell

A former CSIC research professor at the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center (Spain).

Torsten Wiesel

Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the visual area of the cerebral cortex.

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 (Barcelona).

Edward S. Rubin

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

Carlos M. Duarte

Director of the Red Sea Research Center and holder of the 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), where he heads the Atmosphere in the Earth System Department.

Kenneth J. Davis

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

Hans J. Schellnhuber

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

Sergio Alonso

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

Pedro Jordano

Research Professor in the Department of Integrative Ecology at the Estación Biológica de Doñana (Sevilla) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

Daniel P. Faith

Researcher at the Australian Museum.

Robert D. Holt

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

Ilkka Hanski

Researcher at the University of Helsinki (Finland), where he teaches zoology and animal ecology.

Gary Meffe

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

Joanna Burguer

Distinguished Professor of Biology at Rutgers University (United States).

Daniel Pauly

Professor of Fisheries at the University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre (Canada) and Principal Investigator of the ‘Sea Around Us’ project.

Oussama Khatib

Director of the Robotics Laboratory and Professor of Computer Science 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.

Sergio Verdú

Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University (United States), where he teaches and conducts research on information theory in the Information Sciences and Systems Group.

Nico de Rooij

Director of the Institute of Microengineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), where he heads the Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Laboratory. He is also Vice-President of the Swiss research and development company CSEM SA.

Ronald Ho

Hardware Architect at Oracle (United States).

Andrea Goldsmith

Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University (United States).

Timothy J. Besley

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

Guido Tabellini

Professor of Economics at Bocconi University (Italy), where he also serves as Rector.

Hervé Moulin

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

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 Manuel González-Páramo

Visiting Professor at IESE Business School (Spain).

José García Montalvo

Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics and Business at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain) and Research Professor at the Valencian Institute of Economic Research (Ivie).

Norman Loayza

Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank (United States), he currently heads the World Bank Research Hub in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Mark R. Rosenweig

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

Jonathan Temple

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

Jonathan Morduch

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

Richard Whitehouse

Art critic and columnist with the British magazine ‘Gramophone’, founded 1923, one of the world’s foremost classical music publications.

Armin Köhler

Music critic and director of the world’s leading contemporary music festival, Donaueschingen Musiktage (Germany).

Wulf Weinmann

Managing Director of German music label NEOS, specializing in 20th and 21st century music and the recording of unpublished works, since the company was founded in 2007.

Ramón Sanabria

Professor at the Barcelona School of Architecture (Spain).

Luis de Pablo

One of Spain’s foremost composers and professor at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música in Madrid.

Helmut Lachenmann

One of Germany’s most internationally renowned composers.

Antón García-Abril

Studied architecture in Madrid (Spain), where he went on to found the studio Ensamble Studio/Materia Inorgánica in the year 2000.

Reinhard Brembeck

Music critic for the daily newspaper ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’ (Germany).