In the Basic Sciences category

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Avelino Corma, John Hartwig and Helmut Schwarz for their foundational work on the catalysts that are enabling a more efficient, sustainable chemistry

In the Social Sciences category

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Ajzen, Albarracín, Banaji, Greenwald and Petty for contributions that have revolutionized attitude theory and its practical applications

In the Music and Opera category

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Toshio Hosokawa for the extraordinary reach of his music, which tends a bridge between the Japanese tradition and contemporary Western aesthetics

In the Economics, Finance and Management category

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Blanchard, Galí and Woodford in recognition of their profound influence on modern macroeconomics and the design of monetary and fiscal policy rules

In the Information and Communication Technologies category

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Anil Jain and Michael I. Jordan for core contributions in machine learning that have powered the development of biometrics and artificial intelligence

In the Biology and Biomedicine category

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to the four researchers who laid the biological foundations for the treatment revolution in diabetes and obesity

For studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences goes to Daron Acemoglu, winner of the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2016

For computational protein design and protein structure prediction

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, winners of the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine in 2023

For foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks

The Nobel Prize in Physics has gone to Geoffrey Hinton, Frontiers of Knowledge laureate in 2016

Matilde Carlón

Professor of Administrative Law, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Vice-Rector for Institutional Relations and Advanced Courses, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP)

Roberto Colom

Professor of Differential Psychology, Autonomous University of Madrid

Catherine E. De Vries

Professor of Political Science and Generali Chair in European Policies, Bocconi University (Italy)

Jorge Fernández del Valle

Professor of Social Psychology, University of Oviedo

José Muñiz

Chancellor, Nebrija University. Professor of Psychometrics, University of Oviedo

Stephen Sireci

Distinguished University Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Educational Assessment, University of Massachusetts Amherst (United States)

Emmanuel Candès

Barnum-Simons Professor in Mathematics and Statistics of the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics at Stanford University (United States)

María José García Borge

Research Professor. Institute of the Structure of Matter (IEM), CSIC. Spain

Nigel Hitchin

Emeritus Savilian Professor of Geometry in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

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

Aitziber López Cortajarena

Ikerbasque Research Professor, Scientific Director and Biomolecular Nanotechnology Group Leader. CIC biomaGUNE, Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials. Spain

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)

María José Alonso Fernández

Professor of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology. University of Santiago de Compostela. Spain

Lélia Delamarre

Director and Distinguished Scientist, Department of Cancer Immunology, Genentech (United States)

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)

Óscar Marín

Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at the King’s College London (United Kingdom)

Ursula Ravens

Professor Emerita in the Carl Gustav Carus School of Medicine at the Technical University of Dresden (Germany)

Ali Shilatifard

Robert Francis Furchgott Professor of Biochemistry and Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (United States)

Bruce Whitelaw

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

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)

Rudolf Kruse

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

Mario Piattini

Professor of Computer Languages and Systems at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)

Daniela Rus

Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. United States

Bernhard Schölkopf

Scientific Director of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen and Director of the Empirical Inference Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Germany

Alicia Troncoso

President of the Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial. Professor and Head of the Data Science and Big Data Lab at Pablo de Olavide University. Spain

Joos Vandewalle

Honorary President of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (Belgium)

Manuel Arellano

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

Sir Richard Blundell

David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at University College London (United Kingdom). Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management in its 7th edition. 

Antonio Ciccone

Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Mannheim (Germany)

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

Elihu Professor of Economics and Global Affairs at Yale University (United States)

Andreu Mas-Colell

Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pompeu Fabra University and Barcelona School of Economics (Spain)

Eric S. Maskin

Adams University Professor at Harvard University (United States) 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics

Lucrezia Reichlin

Professor of Economics at the London Business School (United Kingdom)

Fabrizio Zilibotti

Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics at Yale University (United States)

Mauro Bucarelli

Artistic Coordinator of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (Italy)

Silvia Colasanti

Composer (Italy)

Víctor García de Gomar

Artistic Director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Spain)

Raquel García-Tomás

Composer (Spain)

Pedro Halffter Caro

Conductor and composer. Member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría. Seville. (Spain)

Joan Matabosch

Artistic Director. Teatro Real (Spain)

Gabriela Ortiz Torres

Composer and Professor of Composition at the National Autonomous University of Mexico

Fabián Panisello

Artistic Director. PluralEnsemble (Spain)