8th edition

Sandip Tiwari

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

Martin Quack

Professor and Head of the Molecular Kinetics and Spectroscopy Group at ETH Zurich (Switzerland).

Nigel Hitchin

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

Trevor Hastie

John A. Overdeck Professor, Professor of Statistics, and Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University (United States).

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. 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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).

Óscar Marín

Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King’s College London.

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 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), in Germany.

Edward S. Rubin

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

Martin Heimann

Director of the Department of Biogeochemical Systems at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and professor at Friedrich Schiller University (both Jena, Germany).

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.

Rik Leemans

Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis at Wageningen University (Netherlands).

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, Spain) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

Nina Buchmann

Professor in the Department of Environmental Systems Science at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich (Switzerland).

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.

Georgina Mace

Professor of Biodiversity and Ecosystems at University College London (United Kingdom), where she also heads the Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research.

Joos Vandewalle

Emeritus professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven (Belgium).

Rudolf Kruse

Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Magdeburg (Germany).

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), in 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)

Pinelopi K. Goldberg

William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Economics at Yale University (United States)

Manuel Arellano

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

Eric S. Maskin

Adams University Professor at Harvard University. 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Fabrizio Zilibotti

Chair of Macroeconomics and Political Economy in the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich (Switzerland)

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).

Antonio Ciccone

Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Mannheim (Germany) and the Department of Economics and Business at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain).

Antoni Plasència

Director General of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) and Medical Advisor in International Health at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (Spain).

Clara Menéndez

Director of the Maternal, Child and Reproductive Health Initiative and Research Professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).

Dimitri Vassilakis

Member of Ensemble Intercontemporain (France) since 1992.

Massimo A. Torrefranca

Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (Israel).

Gianni Possio

Professor of Composition at Turin Conservatory and Artistic Director of music publisher Rugginenti (Italy).

Paolo Pinamonti

Professor since 1992 at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy), where he teaches contemporary music history.

Tilman Kuttenkeuler

Managing Director of Fundación Canaria Auditorio y Teatro de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain).

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).