Presentation ceremony of the 12th and 13th editions in Bilbao

The Frontiers of Knowledge Awards champion knowledge as humanity’s best tool to confront global challenges like the environmental crisis and the tech revolution

The BBVA Foundation recognizes psychologists Susan Fiske and Shelley Taylor, the pioneers of social cognition

The BBVA Foundation recognizes Arvo Pärt, creator of ‘tintinnabuli’, a new musical language centered on the voice and stripped of all ornament that has connected with a wide public

The BBVA Foundation recognizes Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt for developing an economic growth theory based on the innovation that emerges from the process of creative destruction

The BBVA Foundation recognizes Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard and Peter Shor for their fundamental role in the development of quantum computation and cryptography

The BBVA Foundation recognizes Isabelle Guyon, Bernhard Schölkopf and Vladimir Vapnik for work that has advanced the field of artificial intelligence by teaching machines the human skill of classifying data

The BBVA Foundation recognizes ecologists Duarte, Hughes and Pauly for their fundamental contributions to our understanding of marine ecosystems and the challenges facing their conservation

The BBVA Foundation recognizes Hall and Sabatini for discovering the mechanism that regulates cell growth, opening up new therapeutic approaches against cancer, diabetes and ageing

The BBVA Foundation recognizes Kerry Emanuel for detecting and predicting the intensification of hurricanes as a consequence of climate change

Emmanuel Candès

Barnum-Simons Professor in Mathematics and Statistics. Stanford University (United States)

Ignacio Cirac

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

Nigel Hitchin

Emeritus Savilian Professor of Geometry. Mathematical Institute. 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

Hongkun Park

Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Harvard University (United States)

Martin Quack

Professor and Head of the Molecular Kinetics and Spectroscopy Group. Laboratory of Physical Chemistry. ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

Sandip Tiwari

Charles N. Mellowes Professor in Engineering, Emeritus. Cornell University (United States). 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)

Robin Lovell-Badge

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 and MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 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)

Angelika Schnieke

Emerita of Excellence in the School of Life Sciences at the Technical University of Munich (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)

Liz Burd

Pro Vice-Chancellor in Learning and Teaching at the University of Newcastle (Australia)

Georg Gottlob

Professor of Informatics at the University of Calabria (Italy) and Emeritus Professor of Informatics at the University of Oxford (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)

Joos Vandewalle

Honorary President of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven.

Emily S. Bernhardt

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Biology at Duke University (United States)

Paul M. Brakefield

Professor of Zoology and Emeritus Director of the Museum of Zoology at the University of Cambridge

Pedro Jordano

Research Professor in the Department of Integrative Ecology at Doñana Biological Station, CSIC and an Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Ecology at the University of Seville (Spain)

Anna-Liisa Laine

Professor of Ecology in the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich (Switzerland)

Joanna E. Lambert

Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder (United States)

Rik Leemans

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

Sandrine Bony

Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Sorbonne University (France)

Miquel Canals

Director of the Sustainable Blue Economy Chair. University of Barcelona (Spain)  

Carlos M. Duarte

Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Saudi Arabia

Martin Heimann

Director Emeritus of the Department of Biogeochemical Systems at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (Germany)

Edward S. Rubin

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

Bjorn Stevens

Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Hamburg, Germany)

Julie A. Winkler

Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University (United States)

Manuel Arellano

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

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)

Jean Tirole

Honorary Chairman of the Fondation Jean-Jacques Laffont-Toulouse School of Economics (France) Nobel Prize in Economics 2014

Fabrizio Zilibotti

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

Dolores Albarracín

Amy Gutmann University Professor. University of Pennsylvania. 

Bruno Cautrès

Research Fellow of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), attached to CEVIPOF, the Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po in Paris (France)

Jon Krosnick

Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences. Stanford University. United States.

Cees J. H. Midden

Professor Emeritus of Human-Technology Interaction at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands)

Brian Parkinson

Professor of Social Psychology. University of Oxford. United Kingdom.

Simone Schnall

Professor in Experimental Social Psychology. Department of Psychology. University of Cambridge. United Kingdom.

Mauro Bucarelli

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

Víctor García de Gomar

Artistic Director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Spain)

Pedro Halffter Caro

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

Paul Hillier

Artistic Director. Theatre of Voices. Denmark.

Andrew McGregor

Presenter at BBC Radio 3 (United Kingdom)

Robert Sholl

Professor of Music at University of West London (United Kingdom)