Speakers 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chancellor of the Federal Republic of 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

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

Full Professor for Physics at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

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

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

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

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

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