General Prize Committee

Chair

Full Professor of Constitutional Law at Bocconi University, Milan; President Emeritus of the Italian Constitutional Court; former Minister of Justice of Italy

Vice Chair

Professor Emeritus of Romance Philology at the University of Salzburg

Vice Chair

Full Professor of Theoretical Biology, ETH Zurich; Director of Collegium Helveticum; member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and International Honorary Member of the US Academy of Arts and Sciences

Professor of Physiology at the University of Oxford; Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, the Royal Society of London and the Academy of Medical Sciences, London

Distinguished Utrecht University Professor; former President of Academia Europæa; former President of the European Association for Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST); former Vice-President of the European Research Council (ERC); Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech); Foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona, and honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Full Professor at the Department of Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”; Italian Principal Investigator of the international stratospheric balloon experiment BOOMERanG; Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and of the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Rome

Former Vice President, Novo Nordisk, Denmark; former Chairman of the International Advisory Board of VIB (Flemish Institute of Biotechnology) in Ghent; former President of the European Federation of Biotechnology; former Adjunct Professor at the University of Aarhus; Member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences

Professor Emeritus of Ethnomusicology, NOVA University of Lisbon; former President of the International Council for Traditional Music and former Vice President of the Society of Ethnomusicology; Founder and President Emeritus of the Institute of Ethnomusicology – Center for Studies in Music and Dance of the NOVA University of Lisbon

Honorary President of the Museo Galileo-Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence; former Professor of History of Science at the University of Florence; Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Stockholm, and of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Venice; member of the Académie internationale d’histoire des sciences, Paris, of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, and of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia

Directeur de recherche de classe exceptionnelle in Sociology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris; Member of the Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris

Professor Emeritus of Matter Physics at the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome; President Emeritus of the National Research Council (CNR), Rome; former President of the National Institute of Metrological Research (INRIM), Turin; co-founder, fellow and former Director of the European Laboratory of Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS), Florence; national member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, and of the Accademia Europæa

Professor Emeritus of Pathology at the Humanitas University in Milan, Scientific Director of the Istituto Clinico Humanitas; Chair of Inflammation and Therapeutic Innovation, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University, London, UK; Fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, and of the Academia Europæa

Professor of Society and the Internet at Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford; former Director of the Oxford Internet Institute; Director for Public Policy, Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and AI; Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College, University of Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)

Professor Emeritus of Classics / Greek at the University of Zurich; former Chairman of the ZAZH – Center for the Study of the Ancient World, UZH; former Director of the Istituto Svizzero di Roma

Permanent professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Université Paris-Saclay; member of the Académie des Sciences, Institut de France, of the Academia Europæa, and of the European Academy of Sciences; international member of the US Academy of Sciences

Professor Emeritus of Political and Cultural History of the Twentieth Century, Utrecht University; former Director of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome; former Director of the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam

Professor of Nanotechnology, Head of Nanotechnology and Functional Materials Division, and Chairperson of Upptech, The Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University; Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

Director of the Institute of Asthma and Allergy Prevention, Head of the Environmental Health Center, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich; Member of the Academia Leopoldina, of the Academia Europæa, of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI)

Director at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome; Professor of History of Early Modern Art at the Institute of Art History, University of Zurich