5th 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.

Nigel Hitchin

Emeritus Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom).

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.

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).

Ignacio Cirac

Director of the Theory Division of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany).

Avelino Corma

Research Professor at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ),  a joint research center of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

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).

Ursula Ravens

Senior Professor in the Department of Physiology at the Technical University of Dresden (TUD), (Germany).

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).

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).

Sandrine Bony

Senior scientist at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace (LMD/IPSL) in Paris, run jointly by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

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.

Kirsten Halsnaes

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

Gerardo Ceballos

Professor in the Instituto de Ecología at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Pedro Jordano

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

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.

Jordi Bascompte

Professor of Ecology in the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), where he leads an interdisciplinary group on ecological networks.

Joos Vandewalle

Emeritus professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven (Belgium), where he headed a division working on signals, identification, system theory and automation, computer security and industrial cryptography.

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.

Georg Gottlob

Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) (Austria).

Mateo Valero

Director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación and a professor at BarcelonaTech (UPC) (Spain).

Jean Tirole

Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics, Scientific Director of the Institute for Industrial Economics (IDEI) and Chairman of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST).

Andreu Mas-Colell

Professor of Economics at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain).

José Manuel González-Páramo

Visiting Professor at IESE Business School (Spain).

Joel Mokyr

Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics at Northwestern University (Illinois, United States).

Albrecht Ritschl

Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics (United Kingdom).

Kenneth J. Arrow

Emeritus Professor of Economics and of Operations Research at Stanford University (United States).

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).

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).

Maricela Daniel

Spanish Representative of the United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR.

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.

Johannes Kalitzke

Composer and conductor (Germany).

Edith Canat de Chizy

A member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and the first woman composer admitted to the Institut de France.

Dimitri Vassilakis

Member of Ensemble Intercontemporain (France) since 1992.

Martin Kaltenecker

Associate Professor of Musicology at Université Paris Diderot (France).

Winrich Hopp

Director of Musikfest Berlin (Germany), an annual event that brings together orchestras, choirs and ensembles from all round the world.

Ranko Markovic

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

Philippe Albèra

Director of  Éditions Contrechamps (Switzerland).