Speakers 2010

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

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

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

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

Associate Professor, Department of Physical Electronics, Tel Aviv University

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

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

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

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

Prime Minister of Belgium and President of the EU Council

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

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

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

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

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

Professor, Former German Federal Minister of Education and Research.

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

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

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

Falling Walls Foundation

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

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

Former President of the Federal Republic of Germany