Research Professor; since 1990 he has carried out his scientific work at the Instituto de Tecnología Química ITQ (CSIC/UPV), a mixed research center created in 1990 by the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Over the last fifty years he has developed his research in Heterogeneous Catalysis, both basic and applied, in collaboration with various companies. He works on molecular design of catalysts and on sustainable catalytic processes in the fields of hydrocarbon refining and biomass derivatives, and fine chemistry; he has worked on fundamental aspects of acid-base and redox catalysis in order to understand the nature of active sites and reaction mechanisms. From this knowledge he has developed a series of catalysts that are being used in various industrial processes. He is an internationally recognized expert in solid acid and bifunctional catalysts applied to petroleum refining, petrochemistry and chemical processes, especially in the synthesis and application of Zeolites. He is a member of the Real Academia de Ingeniería de España, the Academia Europea, the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de España, the National Academy of Engineering (USA), the French Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europea (Chemical Sciences Section) and the Royal Society. He has received numerous awards, among others, the Príncipe de Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research in 2014 and the Fundación BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2024), in the Basic Sciences category, for promoting fundamental advances in the field of catalysis.

PhD in Physical Sciences, with “premio extraordinario”, from Universidad de Salamanca. After predoctoral training as a fellow at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), she carried out extensive postdoctoral training at different prestigious institutions in Europe and the United States. She spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University, United States. She returned to Spain in 2000, obtaining a position at the Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), first as a tenured scientist and later as a research professor, directing the Instituto de Óptica "Daza de Valdés" between 2008 and 2012. Her studies in ocular imaging and diagnostics have led to the development of new intraocular lenses and the detection of ocular pathogens and infections. Among the different technologies she has co-created, a visual simulator of intraocular lenses for presbyopia and cataracts stands out, which checks the result of an eye operation before the operating theatre, developed by 2EyesVision, a company she co-founded. In July 2021, she was appointed director of the Center for Visual Science (CVS) at the University of Rochester, New York, United States.

He studied Economic Sciences at Universidad de Barcelona, doing his PhD at the London School of Economics. He has worked as a professor at the universities of Barcelona, Oxford, the London School of Economics and CEMFI in Madrid, where he has taught econometrics since 1991. He has been editor of Review of Economic Studies, president of the European Economic Association in 2013 and president of the Econometric Society in 2014. He is currently a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC). He is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the Premio Rey Jaime I in Economics.

General Director of Secure e-Solutions at GMV, Aeronautical Engineer from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Executive MBA from Instituto de Empresa, PDG from IESE. He is currently Vice President, and President of the R&D&I Commission, of the Asociación de Empresas de la Electrónica, Tecnologías de la Información, Telecomunicaciones y Contenidos Digitales (AMETIC) and a member of the Executive Committee of the R&D&I Commission of CEOE, President of the Foro de Empresas Innovadoras and a member of HITEC España.

Emeritus Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Academician of the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Associate Researcher at the Field Museum of Chicago. Acharius Medal. Medal of the Universidad Internacional Menéndez y Pelayo. As a Botanist she has developed her research in organismic, evolutionary and systematic biology. She has worked on the morphological homoplasy of lichenized fungi and her work was pioneering in molecular phylogeny and in the discovery of cryptic species in symbiotic fungi. She has belonged to numerous international committees and scientific panels and has collaborated with the main international scientific evaluation agencies. Between 1987–1993 she was Director General of Universidades (Higher Education) of the Gobierno de España and Director General of the Office of the Secretary of State for Universidades e Investigación. She was General Coordinator of CNEAI (2005–2008).

She studied medicine at Universidad de Valencia and currently holds the Robert and Renee Belfer Chair for the study of neurodegenerative diseases at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, where she is a tenured professor of Developmental Molecular Biology and Medicine and co-director of the Center for Studies on Aging. Her research group studies the mechanisms of cellular clearance and recycling and the effect that loss of function with age has on aging and related diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s and metabolic diseases. She has served as a member of the Scientific Council of the National Institute on Aging and of the Council of the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has been elected international corresponding member of the Real Academia de Medicina de la Comunidad Valenciana, member of the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) since 1988, and currently professor emerita. She is one of the figures responsible for the implementation of linguistics as an empirical and theoretical science recognized as such in Spain, through her tireless research work and her work as a promoter of the discipline. She was director, together with Ignacio Bosque Muñoz, of the Gramática Descriptiva de la Lengua Española (1999), a work whose international impact is undeniable and which served as a model for the publication of different grammars in several European languages. She was responsible for the doctoral program ‘Lingüística teórica y sus aplicaciones’ at the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset (1987–2004), a program that acted as a magnet for top-tier researchers worldwide during its years of validity and whose legacy still endures in the doctoral programs of Spain’s most prestigious universities. In addition, she was Director General de Investigación of the Gobierno de España (2004–2007), a position from which she played a decisive role in the internationalization of scientific quality standards in the fields of social sciences and humanities. She received the Premio Nacional de Investigación de Humanidades in 2014, has been an académica correspondiente of the Real Academia Española since 2015 and Doctor Honoris Causa (2022) by Universidad de Alcalá.

CSIC research professor at the Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas – ICMAT. Awarded the Premio José Luis Rubio de Francia of the Real Sociedad Matemática Española in 2011, the Premio Antonio Valle of the Sociedad Española de Matemática Aplicada in 2013, the Premio Príncipe de Girona de Investigación Científica in 2014 and the first edition of the Premio Barcelona de Sistemas Dinámicos (2015). He has been invited or plenary speaker at around 60 conferences and has given about 50 seminars and colloquia. He has been part of various scientific councils, such as those of the Agencia Española de la Ciencia and the Real Sociedad Matemática Española, and a corresponding member of the Academia Española de Ciencias. His research interests focused on analysis, partial differential equations and dynamical systems. An important part of his work revolves around geometric questions in PDEs, especially in fluid mechanics and spectral theory. Co-author of around one hundred articles, including publications in Annals of Mathematics, Acta Mathematica, Duke Mathematical Journal, Journal of Differential Geometry, JEMS and Annales Scientifiques de l’École Normale Supérieure. Many of his results have attracted considerable international attention.

PhD in Pharmacy from Universidad de Barcelona (UB) and PDD from IESE. He belongs to the seventh generation of the Esteve family, linked to pharmacy since 1787. He also trained in Pennsylvania (USA), where he discovered pharmaceutical marketing, which he later applied in Spain. He was president of Farmaindustria between October 2014 and October 2016. He chaired the pharmaceutical company Esteve between 2005 and 2012, where he currently serves as director. He is president of Esteve Teijin Healthcare and vice president of the business association Feique, as well as a full academician of the Reales Academias de Medicina de Cataluña, de Farmacia de Cataluña and de Doctores de España.

Historian of religion and culture. PhD in Árabe e Islam from Universidad Complutense, she completed a postdoctoral stay at SOAS, London. She has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (USA). Her written output is abundant in books and articles published in international journals. She has been PI of two European projects, ERC AdvancedGrant and ERC Synergy. She has belonged to various national and international evaluation bodies and committees, such as secretary of the CNEAI commission, ICREA promotion, or ERC panels. Member of the Comité Científico Asesor of CSIC.

PhD from Universidad de Santiago de Compostela and has been a postdoctoral researcher at the van't Hoff Laboratory (Universidad de Utrecht) and visiting professor at various institutions around the world. After an extensive academic career at Universidad de Vigo, in 2012 he joined the Centro Vasco de Investigación Cooperativa en Biomateriales (CIC biomaGUNE) in San Sebastián, as an Ikerbasque research professor and scientific director, a position he held until December 2021. Since 2015 he has also been principal investigator of the CIC biomaGUNE node of the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red: Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (Ciber-BBN) and since 2022 he holds a part-time chair at Universidad de Vigo. Liz-Marzán is recognized for his work in applying colloidal chemistry to the nowadays very crowded field of nanoplasmonics. He has been one of the pioneers in the colloidal synthesis of metallic nanoparticles, with important contributions to controlling the morphology of such nanoparticles, as well as adapting the surface chemistry of nanoparticles and their self-assembly.

Founder of the Instituto de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial. Electronic Engineer from Universidad de Mondragón, PhD in Physics from Universidad Paul Sabatier de Toulouse, Master of Science in Computer Science from University of California–Berkeley and PhD in Computer Science from Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña. He has been Associate Professor at the Facultad de Informática de Barcelona and Professor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. He has received, among others, the following distinctions: Premio "Ciudad de Barcelona de Investigación" (1982), "Robert S. Engelmore Award" from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (2011), "Distinguished Service Award” from the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) (2016), "Donald E. Walker Award" from IJCAI (2017) and Premio Nacional de Investigación “Julio Rey Pastor” in Mathematics and Information Technologies (2018). He is an honorary member of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence and a full member of the Instituto de Estudios Catalanes. Co-author of the outreach book "Inteligencia Artificial" within the CSIC series "Qué Sabemos de” published by Los Libros de la Catarata.

Vice President (April 2023 – November 2024). Civil Engineer (caminos, canales y puertos), Chair of Hydraulic Engineering at Universidad de Cantabria and Director of Research at the Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de la Universidad de Cantabria (IHCantabria), where he conducts research in coastal and ocean engineering and climate change. He is also Scientific Director of the Gran Tanque de Ingeniería Marítima de Cantabria, one of Spain’s Instalaciones Científicas y Técnicas Singulares (ICTS). Among other recognitions, in 2017 he received the John G. Moffat–Frank E. Nichol Harbor & Coastal Engineering Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) “for his internationally recognized contributions to coastal engineering, including the creation of one of the most prestigious research centers in the world, the development of numerical models widely used in the profession and the education and mentoring of future generations of coastal engineers worldwide,” being the first researcher to receive it working outside the USA since its creation in 1977. He also received the Premio Rey Jaume I for Environmental Protection (2018), “for his important contribution to environmental improvement, as well as to the fight against climate change. His studies on coastal dynamics lay the foundations for their protection.”

Research Professor at the Instituto de Neurociencias (CSIC–UMH) in Alicante and coordinator of the Conexión Cáncer–CSIC. She studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and earned her PhD from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 1987 (CBM SO CSIC–UAM). In 1988, she moved to the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Sols–Morreale (CSIC–UAM) in Madrid and in 1989 to the National Institute for Medical Research in London. In 1993 she returned to Spain, to the Instituto Cajal in Madrid. She leads a research group interested in cellular plasticity during embryonic development and disease. Her main contribution has been the impact that the reactivation of embryonic programs has on adult pathologies, including cancer progression, fibrosis and the growth and mineralization of bones. Member of the Organización Europea de Biología Molecular (EMBO) and of the Academias de Ciencias de España (RAC), Europa, Francia and Latinoamérica. Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidades de Jaén and Jaume I de Castellón. Scientific delegate for Spain at the laboratorio Europeo de Biología Molecular (EMBL–EMBC Councils) and currently vice president of the EMBL Council. Member of Editorial Committees of several international journals (EMBO J; Sem. Cancer Biol.; Trends in Genetics) and of the advisory committees of numerous scientific institutions and Foundations in Spain and Europe. She has received more than 52,000 citations to her work (Google Scholar) and numerous awards, including the “Rey Jaime I” in Basic Research (2009); Premio Méjico de Ciencia y Tecnología (2017); Premio Nacional de Investigación Ramón y Cajal (2019) and Premio por Europa L’Oréal–UNESCO for Women in Science (2022).

Graduate in Chemistry in 1978 from Universidad de Zaragoza and PhD in Biochemistry from the same Universidad. He carried out postdoctoral stays at Harvard and MIT before moving to Tufts University. He has developed his professional career as Professor of Nutrition, a pioneer and one of the world’s leading specialists in nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics, being Director of the Laboratorio de Nutrición y Genética at Tufts University (Boston, United States), Scientific Director of the Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados (IMDEA) and researcher at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) in Spain. Doctor Honoris Causa by Universidad de Córdoba and awarded numerous prizes such as the Medalla de Oro of the Sociedad Española de Cardiología and the Nutrition Science Award of the American Society of Nutrition, among others. His studies confirm the close relationship between nutrition, genes and the onset of diseases.

Her research has been seminal in advancing knowledge about the mechanisms that control thyroid function, tissue-specific transcription and signaling pathways involved in response to hormones and growth factors. Her work has had translational projection applied to thyroid pathologies such as congenital hypothyroidism and cancer. Principal Investigator of competitive research projects funded by the Plan Nacional de I+D+i, the Instituto de Salud Carlos III and the Comunidad de Madrid, as well as by the Biotechnology Program (EU) and Fulbright (Spain–USA). She has participated and/or participates in bodies and evaluation committees among which the following stand out: Programa de Biología Fundamental, Consolider–Ingenio 2010, ICREA, CNEAI, Profarma, Consejo de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Comunidad de Madrid and Agencia de Calidad Universitaria de Cataluña (AQU). She has been vice president of the Sociedad Española de Endocrinología, president of the Sociedad Europea de Tiroides and Spanish delegate on the Steering Council of the Joint Research Centre (JRC). She has received different awards for her scientific career in the area of thyroid research, among which the Medalla de la Sociedad Española de Endocrinología y Nutrición stands out.

Mathematician and writer specializing in artificial intelligence and robotics, she combines literary writing with scientific research. She studied mathematics at Universidad de Barcelona (UB), Computer Science in Massachusetts at Amherst (UMASS) and Informatics at Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC). She is currently a research professor at the Instituto de Robótica (CSIC–UPC). In the scientific field, she has published books and articles on neural models, computer vision, artificial intelligence and robotics. She has been awarded the Premio Divulga of the Museo de la Ciencia de Barcelona, the Premio Rafael Campalans of the Instituto de Estudios Catalanes, and the Medalla Narciso Monturiol of the Generalitat de Cataluña. She is a full member of the Academia Europea and an elected member of the Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona.