3rd 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).

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).

Werner Arber

Emeritus Professor of Molecular Microbiology at Biozentrum (Switzerland), and Nobel Laureate in Medicine for the discovery of restriction enzymes.

Mariano Barbacid

AXA-CNIO Professor of Molecular Oncology in the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO).

Edward S. Rubin

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

Miquel Canals

Chairman of the Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Marine Geosciences Department at the University of Barcelona (Spain).

Bjorn Stevens

Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Hamburg, Germany), where he heads the Atmosphere in the Earth System Department.

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).

Kirsten Halsnaes

Head of the Climate Program at the Technical University of Denmark.

Wilhelm Boland

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

Daniel Simberloff

Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Tennessee (United States), where he is also Director of the Institute for Biological Invasions.

Paul Brakefield

Professor of Zoology at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), where he is also the Director of the University Museum of Zoology.

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.

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).

Andreu Mas-Colell

Professor of Economics at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain).

Manuel Arellano

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

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).

Francisco Pérez

Professor of Economic Analysis at the University of Valencia (Spain) and Research Director of 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.

Vicente Larraga

Research Professor and former director of the Center for Biological Research of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), where he heads the Molecular Parasitology Laboratory (Madrid, Spain).

José Lasa

Research Professor in the Aula Dei Experimental Center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

Ruth Rama

Research Professor at the Institute of Geography, Economics and Demography of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

Pedro Alonso

Director of the World Health Organization’s Global Malaria Programme in Geneva (Switzerland).

Cristóbal Halffter

A guest conductor with Europe’s top orchestras since 1970, he is also Associate Composer to the Madrid Symphony Orchestra and a member of the board of the Prince Pierre Foundation of Monaco.

Dieter Torkewitz

Emeritus Professor of Music Theory at Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts (Austria).

Siegfried Mauser

German pianist and musicologist, he is a celebrated performer of the works of 20th-century authors like Paul Hindemith and Wolfgang Rihm.

Hugues Dufourt

Composer and Emeritus Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France).

Jürg Stenzl

Professor of Musicology at the University of Salzburg (Austria).

Ranko Markovic

Professor and Head of the BA in Music Program at Zurich University of the Arts (Switzerland).