Speakers

Professor, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH

Director of Tropical Laboratory Initiative, Earth Institute, Columbia University, Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Coordinator, Millennium Villages Project

Professor at the École Polytechnique and at the Institut d’Optique, Palaiseau; Distinguished Senior Researcher at Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), France

Professor of Physics, Electrical, and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Peter J. Clarke Director of the California NanoSystems Institute

Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria.

Co-director and scientific coordinator, Epode and Epode European Network, France

President of Science Europe

Director of Population Health Sciences at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Professor of Population Health Sciences at the University of Bonn, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts

Executive Director of UNITAID

Professor at the Collège de France, Chaire de Paléontologie humaine, Paris; Member of the Institut International de Paléoprimatologie et Paléontologie Humaine Évolution et Paléoenvironnements (IPHEP), Faculté des Sciences, Université de Poitiers, France

Professor of European Politics, London School of Economics, UK

Editor-in-Chief of Nature and of the Nature Publishing Group

Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages & Civilizations and the College, University of Chicago, USA

Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, USA.

Distinguished University Professor, Tumor and Vascular Biology Research Center, The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa; Nobel Laureate 2004 in Chemistry, Israel

Senior Vice Provost, Dean for the Social Sciences and University Professor, New York University, Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, MA, Senior Advisor to the UN Millennium Project

Professor of History, Department of History, New York University

Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Professor in Mathematics, Duke University, President of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), USA.

Chair of the Board of Directors, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Helmholtz Association, Hamburg

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Technische Universität Berlin, Coordinator of the Cluster of Excellence “Unifying Concepts in Catalysis”, Berlin; Team leader of the Research Unit “Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry” at the Department of Chemistry, Division for Metalorganics and Inorganic Materials, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Artist, Professor, Universität der Künste Berlin, Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin

President, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Scientific Advisor at the European Commission

Dean of The George Washington University School of Business, Professor of Management and International Business, The George Washington University, Washington DC

Professor for Trace Elements and Micro Analysis, Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland

Associate Professor, Department of Physical Electronics, Tel Aviv University

William Sussman Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Director Paleoanthropology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Professor for Theory and Analysis of Large-Scale Brain Signals, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Humboldt-Universität, Germany

Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

Executive Director of GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

Director-General of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland

Principal Deputy Director-General, ITER Organization, St-Paul-lez-Durance, France

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Professor of Applied Mathematics,Technische Universität Berlin, Matheon Berlin Mathematical School

Professor of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

Researcher at the Human Science and Technology Advanced Research Institute, Stanford University

Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Professor, Scientific Executive Director, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, President, acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering, Berlin, Germany.

Provost, Director of the Institute of Science and Technology Research, University Professor, Chubu University, Kasugai City, Japan, Honorary Professor at Keio University, Tokyo

Professor of History, Director, Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA

Professor of Global Governance, Director, Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, London School of Economics, UK.

Founder of Funkfeuer FREE NET, Vienna

Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin

UN Special Envoy for HIV/Aids in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Professor, President, DFG German Research Foundation, Bonn, Germany.

Chief Science Officer (CSO), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), within Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres

Chair of the Supervisory Board, Desertec Foundation; Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation (TREC), Hamburg, Germany

Director, Head of Attosecond- and High-Field Physics Division, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Munich, Chair of Experimental Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

Deputy Head of Cabinet of the European Research Council

Academia Europaea, Fellow and Foreign Secretary

String Cosmology Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam, Germany.

Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Honorary Professor, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken

Director of EMBO and President of Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE)

Chief Executive Officer, AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and Executive Publisher, Science

Prime Minister of Belgium and President of the EU Council

Architect, Studio Daniel Libeskind

Director of the Earth Security Initiative

Associate Professor, History Department, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

University Professor, President of the Leibniz Association, Honorary Professor, Freie Universität Berlin, Stanley B. Resor Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University, Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching

Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

Professor, President, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Berlin, Germany.

Professor, President, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Berlin, Germany.

Head of Neuroscience and Mental Health at The Wellcome Trust; Professor of Neuroscience, University of Edingburgh, UK

Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and the College, University of Chicago, USA; Professor for Greek Philology, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy

U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany

Professor of Law, Chair of Constitutional Law and Legal Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Professor at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen

Professor at the Department of Mechanical Learning, Technische Universität Berlin, Director of Bernstein Center for Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology, Berlin, Germany

Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Neuroengineering, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Duke University Medical Center , USA

Professor em., ETH Zürich, President, European Research Council (ERC), Vienna, Austria

Executive Director, Research Department, China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC)

Founder and Chairman of The Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum Kyoto, former Minister of Science and Technology and former Minister of Finance, Japan.

University Professor, Dean of the TUM School of Education, Technische Universität München

Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics, Università di Trento, Italy

State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research

University Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universität Zürich, Fellow at Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Full Professor for Physics at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Artist, Studio Tomás Saraceno

Professor, Former German Federal Minister of Education and Research.

Professor, Former German Federal Minister of Education and Research.

Professor, Former German Federal Minister of Education and Research

John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Stanford University

Director of ICT for Smart Cities initiative at Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin

Director, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Honorary Professor, Humboldt-Universität and Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

University Professor, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Professor of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

Group Leader, Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology

Professor of Neuroscience, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Chair of the Department of Neuromorphology, Brain Research Institute, University of Zürich, Switzerland

Senegal's Health Minister

Professor of Organic Chemistry at Freie Universität Berlin; Director of the Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany

University Professor, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department Social Neuroscience, Leipzig

Professor of Economics , Chair of Economic Theory, University of Kiel, President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy , Germany

Professor at the Department of Psychology, Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), USA

Professor of Hematology and Oncology, Director of the Medical Clinic for Hematology and Oncology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Professor, Director of the German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research

Falling Walls Foundation

Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (MA), USA

Professor, Groupleader in Chemistry and Physics of Nanostructures, Dept. of Condensed Matter and Interfaces, Debye Institute for NanoMaterials Science, Universiteit Utrecht

Chief Economist at Google Inc.

Professor of Mathematics, Université de Lyon, Director, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, Winner of the Fields Medal 2010, France.

Executive Director at nef (the new economics foundation), London

Dean and Professor of Plant Nematology at School of Agriculture and Enterprise Development, Kenyatta University, Nairobi

Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business, Director, Center for Research On Environmental Decisions, Director, Center for the Decision Sciences, Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York, USA.

Professor of Mathematics, Université Paris-Sud and École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Chair of Image Communication Department, Technische Universität Berlin; Head of Image Processing Department, Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut Berlin, Germany

Full Professor, Bernd Rogge Professor of Global Production Logistics, Jacobs University, Bremen

Former President of the Federal Republic of Germany

Yunus Centre, Grameen Bank, Nobel Peace Laureate, Chittagong, Bangladesh

President of the Weizmann Institute of Science