Attendees 2026

"EVERYONE THAT HAS TO DEAL WITH SCIENCE IS HERE." (Jean-Claude Burgelman Director of the Frontiers Planet Prize)

Confirmed attendees and speakers for the Falling Walls Science Summit November 6 – 9, 2026.

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German Research Minister

Dorothee Bär

Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, Germany

Danish Research Minister

Christina Egelund

Ministry of Higher Education and Science, Denmark

German Education Minister

Karin Prien

Federal Ministry of Education, Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Germany

Nobel Laureate in Physics

Brian Schmidt

Australian National University

Nobel Laureate Physics

Sir Konstantin Novoselov

Constructor University Bremen / National University of Singapore / University of Manchester

Chief Scientific Adviser

Angela McLean

UK Government

Canadian Industry Minister

Mélanie Joly

Ministry of Industry, Science and Economic Development, Canada

Director General

Mark Thomson

CERN

Bavarian Research Minister

Markus Blume

State of Bavaria

Canadian Artificial Intelligence Minister

Evan Solomon

Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Canada

President

Maria Leptin

European Research Council

President & CEO

Stephen Toope

Canadian Institute For Advanced Research (CIFAR)

Member of the European Parliament

Christian Ehler

European Parliament

Former Head of NASA Science Missions

Thomas Zurbuchen

ETH Zurich

President

Martin Keller

Helmholtz Association

President

Lise Korsten

The African Academy of Sciences

Laboratory Director

John Sarrao

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Laboratory Director

Kimberly Budil

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Director

Thom Mason

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Senator for Science, Health and Care of Berlin

Ina Czyborra

The Senate of Berlin

Editor in Chief

Magdalena Skipper

Springer Nature

Laboratory Director

John Wagner

Idaho National Laboratory

President

Siegfried Russwurm

acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering

Former Minister

Manuel Heitor

Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Portugal

President

Melanie Maas-Brunner

Stifterverband

President

Christoph M. Schmidt

Leibniz Association

President

Thierry Coulhon

Institut Polytechnique de Paris

President-Elect

Robbert Dijkgraaf

International Science Council

President and Vice-Chancellor

Michael Benarroch

University of Manitoba

President

Melanie A. Woodin

University of Toronto

Former Director

France Córdova

National Science Foundation

President

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral

EPFL

Chairman & CEO

Thierry Dauxois

CNRS

Professor

Yifat Merbl

Weizmann Institute of Science

Secretary General

Pavel Kabat

International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO)

Chancellor

Pradeep Khosla

UC San Diego

President

E.M. Mouhoud

PSL University

Professor

Željko Ivezić

Vera C. Rubin Observatory, University of Washington

President

Martin Hetzer

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

President

Holger Hanselka

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Director

Laura Kreidberg

Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

Professor

Yilin Wang

ETH Zürich

President

Katja Becker

German Research Foundation (DFG)

CEO

Jonathan Bagger

American Physical Society

Executive Director

Stéphanie Debette

Paris Brain Institute

Universitätsklinikum Erlangen / Photo: Simone Kessler

Life Sciences Breakthrough of the Year

Georg Schett

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

State Secretary

Martina Hirayama

State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), Switzerland

Rector

Daniel Jutras

Université de Montréal

President and CEO

Sylvain Charbonneau

Canada Foundation for Innovation

Physical Sciences Breakthrough of the Year

David Awschalom

University of Chicago

Deputy Director-General

Saeki Koji

Japan Science and Technology Agency (CRDS)

Rector

Marianne Skjulhaug

Oslo National Academy of The Arts

Chairman

Anne-Isabelle Etienvre

French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission

Director

Andreas Kaufer

European Southern Observatory

Science Director

Vanessa McBride

International Science Council

Sean Decatur

The American Museum of Natural History

Director

Paul Kearns

Argonne National Laboratory

CEO

Ian Chapman

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Director, Division of Science Policy and Basic Sciences

Shaofeng Hu

UNESCO

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry

Karim Bardeesy

House of Commons of Canada

President

Paul Hébert

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

President and Vice-Chancellor

Benoit-Antoine Bacon

University of British Columbia

Rectrice

Sophie D'Amours

Université Laval

Executive Director

Jodi Cooley

SNOLAB

Director, Division of Science Policy and Basic Sciences

Shaofeng Hu

UNESCO

President & CEO, Mitsubishi International GmbH & Mitsubishi Italia S.p.A.

Takao Hariya

Mitsubishi International GmbH

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea

Jin Park

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Republic of Korea)

President

Eva Martha Eckkrammer

University of Trier

Executive Vice President

Yuri Tschinkel

Simons Foundation

Member of Parliament

Lina Seitzl

German Bundestag

Former CEO

Joachim Kreuzburg

SARTORIUS AG

President

David Alis

University of Rennes

Professor

Ariel Knafo-Noam

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Founding Director

Barend Mons

LIFES Institute

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Mandë Holford

Harvard University

Member of the Bundestag

Lisa Paus

German Bundestag

Scientific Director

Marcio de Castro Silva Filho

São Paulo Research Foundation

Chief Scientist

Randy Gomez

Honda Research Institute Japan

President

Paul Pauli

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Member of Board

Ursula Heraeus

Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Stiftung

President

Michael Schaepman

University of Zurich

President & CEO

Sam Gill

Doris Duke Foundation

Professor

Sir Geoff Mulgan

University College London

Professor

Emma Motrico

Universidad de Sevilla

CEO

Christian Humborg

Allianz Foundation

President

Günter M. Ziegler

Freie Universität Berlin

Executive Director, North America Policy

Jean-Benoit Leblanc

Global Affairs Canada

Rector

Peter Middendorf

University of Stuttgart

Director, Quantum Sensors Program

Marina Gertsvolf

National Research Council Canada

Senior Vice President

Chitkala Kalidas

Bayer Foundation

Vice Rector for Research

Vasilis Avdikos

Panteion University

Head of Institute

Peter P. Pramstaller

Institute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research

State Secretary

Thomas Jarzombek

Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation

State Secretary (ret.)

Thomas Sattelberger

Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space

Professor

Laure Zanna

New York University

President

Bill Rosehart

University of Waterloo

Director

Nicolas Castoldi

Choose France for Science / AP-HP

Vice President

Mario Pinto

University of Manitoba

Secretary General

Michael Bruno Klein

Wissenschaftliche Kommission Niedersachsen (WKN)

CTO

Oscar-Werner Reif

Sartorius

Chief Scientific Officer

Lene Oddershede

Novo Nordisk Foundation

President

Axel R. Pries

World Health Summit

Senior Fellow

Charity Weeden

NASA, Atlantic Council

Director of International Affairs

Liat Mandelbaum Shor

The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

President

Cornelia Denz

National Metrology Institute of Germany

Scientific Director

Ann-Kristin Achleitner

Technical University of Munich

Member of the Board of Management

Frank Meyer

Robert Bosch GmbH

Managing Director

Martin Mann

Berlin University Alliance

President, German Mathematical Society

Jürg Kramer

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Jury Chair | President

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

WZB Berlin Social Science Center

IT-Leiter

Uwe Konrad

Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V.

Director

Gerald Haug

Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

Director

Jean-Claude Burgelman

Frontiers Planet Prize

Member of the Board

Joachim Faber

Dalfa Munich Office

President

Mohamed H. A. Hassan

Sudanese National Academy of Sciences

President

Michael Hengartner

ETH Board

Dean of Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology

Anat Brunstein Klomek

Reichman University

Chairman, President & CEO

Frank Laukien

Bruker Corporation

Head of Global Research Partnerships

Leah Soroko

The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)

Chief Executive Officer

Heyo Kroemer

Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Chair

Carlo Rizzuto

CERIC-ERIC

Secretary-General

Xing Wang

Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Germany (CHKD)

Acting Director

Emmanuel Stratakis

Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH)

President & CEO

Caroline Montojo

Dana Foundation

Minister Plenipotentiary

Andries Oosthuizen

Embassy of the Republic of South Africa

Chief Representative

Hong He

Helmholtz Association in China

Science-Journalist

Ranga Yogeshwar

Director

Thomas Thum

Hannover Medical School

President & CEO

Rob Annan

Genome Canada

Chief Executive

Tracey Brown

Sense about Science

Executive Vice President for Research

Asako Sugimoto

Tohoku University

General Representative of Flanders in Germany

Bart Brosius

Government of Flanders

Managing Director

Jörg Maxton-Küchenmeister

Schering Foundation

Managing Director

Felix Streiter

Carl Zeiss Foundation

Founding Partner

Christian Reitberger

Matterwave Ventures

President

Hugh Brady

Imperial College London

Vice President

Kathrin Moeslein

FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

President

Tim Florian Horn

Stiftung Planetarium Berlin

Vice President for Academic Affairs

Ambrogio Fasoli

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Corporate Vice President, R&D

Vincenzo Tomarchio

Henkel

Scientific Director

Joachim Schultze

German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)

Director

Suman Chakraborty

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

President

Sascha Spoun

Leuphana University of Lüneburg

Rector

Pia Cecilie Bing-Jonsson

University of South-Eastern Norway

President

Karla Pollmann

University of Tübingen

Secretary General

Franziska Hornig

Leopoldina – German National Academy of Sciences

Co-Founder & Member Board of Trustees

Detlev Ganten

Virchow Foundation

Executive Vice President

Juan de Pablo

New York University

President

Melanie Maas-Brunner

Stifterverband

Investor

Ingo Klöckner

Leaps by Bayer

Vice President I Vice Provost of Global Futures

Peter Schlosser

Arizona State University

President

Ulf Thiele

Industrieverband Pro-Fusion

Director

Jörg Vogel

Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI)

President

Roland Wohlgemuth

Swiss Coordination Committee Biotechnology (SKB)

Member of Parliament

Oliver Kaczmarek

German Bundestag

Director

Dietmar Harhoff

Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

Director International Affairs

Amy Lin

Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)

Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Martin Sonnenschein

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG

Honorary President

Thomas Matussek

Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft

President

Oliver Günther

University of Potsdam

Chairman of the Executive Board

Tobias Ernst

Stiftung Kinder forschen

Managing Director

Stefan Widensohler

KRAUTH Group

Director

Mateo Valero

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Head of Laboratory

Fabian Schweigardt

Boehringer Ingelheim

Professor

Klaus-Robert Müller

TU Berlin / Google DeepMind

Managing Director, NewSpace Initiative

Matthias Johannes Wachter

Federation of German Industries (BDI)

Rector

Jan Danckaert

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Head of Management

Edmundo Omar Matamoros Hernández

National Polytechnic Institute

Director Human Environment

Jesse Ausubel

The Rockefeller University

Managing Director

Imke Rajamani

Hamburg Sustainability Conference gGmbH

Managing Director

Theresa Twachtmann

PD – Berater der öffentlichen Hand

Head of Business Development

Sven Wagner

Sartorius

Director

Karen Willcox

University of Texas at Austin

Professor

Maya Benish Weisman

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Associate Vice-President

Hans-Joachim Wieden

University of Manitoba

Board Member | Managing Director & CEO

Olaf Brock

Hannover re Foundation | Hannover Retakaful B.S.C. (c)

Chairman of the Board

Stefanos Kollias

National Infrastructures for Research and Technology (GRNET)

Former President

Helga Nowotny

European Research Council

Former German Minister of Education and Research

Bettina Stark-Watzinger

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Professor

Barbara Ischinger

University of Cologne

President

Jan Hesthaven

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Managing Director

Beate Wagner

Global Young Academy

President

Katharina Lorenz

Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

Director

Christian Rüegg

Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI)

Director of Research

Philippe Chomaz

French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

Chairman

Vassilis Charmandaris

Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH)

President & CEO

Adam F. Falk

Wildlife Conservation Society

Executive Director

Julie Maxton

The Royal Society

Rector

Michael Hoch

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Deputy Director General for Research and Innovation

Ivan Iordanoff

Arts et Métiers – École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers

Rector

Barbara Albert

University of Duisburg-Essen

Foreign Secretary & Vice-President

Mark Walport

Royal Society

Rector

Frauke Melchior

Heidelberg University

Secretary General

Alexander Bonde

German Federal Environmental Foundation

Executive Director

Martin Müller

GESDA - Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator

President

Walter Rosenthal

German Rectors’ Conference (Hochschulrektorenkonferenz)

President

Stefan Leible

University of Bayreuth

CEO

Antonio Krüger

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

President

Donald Bruce Dingwell

Academia Europaea

VP, Open Source Research

Cat Allman

Digital Science

Research Scientist, Astrophysics

Youssef Moulane

University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P)

Co-Director, Alliance for African Partnership

Amy Jamison

Michigan State University

Jury Chair

Wolfgang Marquardt

RWTH Aachen University

Professor

Nektarios Tavernarakis

University of Crete

Former German Education and Research Minister

Edelgard Bulmahn

Humboldt University Berlin

President

Gur Alroey

University of Haifa

President

Eloísa del Pino

Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Scientific Director

Meeyoung Cha

Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

Founder & CEO

Nicole Büttner

Merantix Momentum

Managing Director

Christian Piel

RI Research Instruments

Fellow / Senior Advisor

Evrim Bunn

University of California San Diego

Professor

JoAnne Hewett

Stony Brook University

President of the Foundation Council

Wolfgang Ischinger

Munich Security Conference Foundation

CEO

Daniel Hook

Digital Science

Head of Department

Sibylle Anderl

Zeit Online

Senior Director, Global Partnerships and Networks

Amanda Ellis

ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory

State Secretary for Higher Education and Research

Henry Marx

Senate Department for Higher Education and Research, Health and Long-Term Care

Vice President (Sustainability & Resilience)

Lian Pin Koh

National University of Singapore

Secretary-General

Christian Suhm

Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS)

Director

Johannes Krause

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Founder & Secretary General

Anna Nilsson Vindefjärd

Research!Sweden

Professor and Principal Investigator

Sascha P. Quanz

ETH Zürich

Member of Parliament

Andrea Lübcke

German Bundestag

Rector

Johannes Wessels

University of Münster

Founder & CEO

Parag Khanna

AlphaGeo

Secretary General

Markus Zanner

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Member of the Presidential Board

Annette Röttger

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)

Vice President

Thomas Hirth

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Managing Director

Michael Peiniger

ProZukunft Ventures GmbH

Vice President

Jeanne Rubner

Technical University of Munich

Geschäftsführer Hauptstadtbüro Berlin

Norbert Theihs

Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. (VCI)

Member of the Board

Nikolaus Turner

Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Distinguished Professor

Andrea Alù

City University of New York

Professor

Mel Heyman

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital

Professor

Francesco Gianoli

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

President

Ralph Bruder

Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

Chairman Supervisory Boards

Bernd Scheifele

Heidelberg Materials AG & PHOENIX Pharma SE

Director Foundation Council ISREC

Susan Gasser

Friedrich Miescher Institute

President

Klaus Schilling

Zentrum für Telematik e.V.

Director, Research and Impact

Julia Lalande

Ontario Science Centre

Managing Director

Michael Pekeler

RI Research Instruments GmbH

Director, Vice President of the MPS

Christian Doeller

Max Planck Society

Chairman

Michael Baumann

German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

Women's Impact Award

Omneya Attallah

Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT)

CEO

Helmut Schönenberger

UnternehmerTUM

Local & Global Engagement Officer

Alexander Betts

University of Oxford

Member of the Executive Management

Henrike Hartmann

VolkswagenStiftung

Head of R&D

Wolfram Münch

EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG

Falling Walls Lab Antananarivo, Madagascar

André Randrianirina

Youth Association for the Promotion of Renewable Energy (AJPER)

Chair German Science and Humanities Council

Wolfgang Wick

Wissenschaftsrat

Member of the German Bundestag

Stephan Albani

German Bundestag

Founder & CEO / Assoc. Chief Scientist, NASA

Kartik Sheth

Aix Marseille University

Professor

Georg Holländer

University of Oxford

President

Bettina Rockenbach

Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina

CEO & Managing Partner

Katie Rae

Engine Ventures

President

Simone Menne

American Chamber of Commerce in Germany

Administrative Director

Christian Scherf

Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research

Senior VP Innovations

Kim Nguyen

Bundesdruckerei

Alberto Pascual

Fundación CoMunidad

Vice President Research

Ibrahim Yimer

National Research Council Canada

Vice President for Natural Sciences

Matthew Walhout

John Templeton Foundation

Head of Walther Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Thomas Gudermann

LMU Munich, Faculty of Medicine

Deputy Secretary General

Andrea Frank

Stifterverband

Professor

Alice Aiken

Dalhousie University

Director

Sherri Aldis

United Nations

General Manager Research Policy

Matthias Meergans

Verband Forschender Arzneimittelhersteller (vfa)

Professor, EPS President

Mairi Sakellariadou

King's College London

Chief Scientific Officer

Thomas Bjørnholm

Villum Foundation

Director

Sherri Aldis

United Nations

CEO

Georg Schütte

Volkswagen Foundation

Research Professor of Pharmacology

Michelle Hastings

University of Michigan

Director of the Board

Michael Madeja

Else Kröner Fresenius Stiftung

Deputy Director for Finance and International Cooperation

Michał Młynarczyk

SOLARIS Centre / Jagiellonian University

Founding Director

Ernst Rietschel

Berlin Institute of Health

Professor and Director

Julia Stoyanovich

New York University

Former President

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

European Research Council

DESY Director of Astroparticle Physics

Christian Stegmann

DESY

President

Hauke Heekeren

University of Hamburg

Head of Sustainable Underwriting

Aurélie Fallon Saint-Lo

AXA Group

Managing Director

Stefan Jorda

Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation

Investor

Pierluigi Freni

LIFTT

Director

Ian Walmsley

Oxford Quantum Institute

Co-Founder

Manuel Linder

Families for Nature Foundation

CEO

Anna Wetterbom

Ragnar Söderbergs Foundation

Research Director

Anja Böckmann

CNRS/ Lyon University

Full Professor / Institute Director

Klaus Kopka

Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)

Executive Director

Claudia Eckert

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security AISEC

Head of Sector

Eleni Zika

European Research Council

Director

Ylann Schemm

The Elsevier Foundation

Innovation Manager

Andreas Zaby

Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND)

Program Manager

Bonita de Swardt

South African Radio Astronomy Observatory

secretary general

Kai Sicks

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst | DAAD

Senior Vice President, Research Networks

Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz

Elsevier Ltd

Venture Partner

Antti Vasara

Kvanted

Professor of Physics

Young-Kee Kim

The University of Chicago

Professor, Member of the Board of Trustees

Jens Martin Gurr

University of Duisburg-Essen

Professor

Cigdem Issever

Humboldt University Berlin

Eric Isaacs

Carnegie Science

Arik Willner

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

Head of Higher Education Initiative

Dolores Volkert

EIT Higher Education Initiative

Oscar Contreras-Villarroel

Fundación Ciencia Joven, Giant Magellan Telescope

Managing Director

Kyra Constanze Pauly

Bayer Foundation

Falling Walls Lab Ibadan, Nigeria

Henry Danwawo Lamba

Schrodinger Technologie Ltd

Ulrika Björkstén

Public & Science Sweden

Rector

Battsengel Baatar

German-Mongolian Institute for Resources and Technology

Principal Investigator

Thomas Elsaesser

Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie

Investor

Valerie Schuster

Valerie Schuster Consulting

Professor

Stefanie Dimmeler

Goethe University Frankfurt

Jan Wöpking

German U15

Yik-Ying Teo

National University of Singapore

Jakob Edler

Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI

President

Matthias Tschöp

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Scientific Director

Maike Sander

Max Delbrück Center

Ricarda Gaentzsch

IQVIA

President

Georg Krausch

Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

Engineering & Technology Breakthrough of the Year

Yu Huang

University of California Los Angeles

Luca Beverina

University of Milano-Bicocca, MUSA

Adenike Oladosu

I Lead Climate Action Initiative

Associate Vice-Provost for Research

Nina Gray

NYU

Secretary-General

Jan Palmowski

The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities

Thomas Wiegand

Fraunhofer HHI & TU Berlin

Carla Seidel

BASF SE

MD Semiconductor & Electronics / Industrials

Klemens Brunner

Heraeus Group

Art & Science Breakthrough of the Year

Isidora Correa

Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Professor

Markus Arndt

University of Vienna

Jury Chair

Michael Schuetz

Queensland University of Technology Brisbane

Co-Founder

Horst Kreuter

Vulcan Energy

Head of the board

Ursula Gather

Krupp-Stiftung

President & CEO

Regina Dugan

Wellcome Leap

Naveed Syed

ENHANCE Alliance

President and Vice Chancellor

Joy Johnson

Simon Fraser University

Executive Director

Tuomas Olkku

KAUTE Foundation - The Finnish Science Foundation for Economics and Technology

Steffen Krach

Senatskanzlei Wissenschaft und Forschung

Global Head

Detlev Mennerich

Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund

Director

Lin Zhang

Global Fundamental Research Observatory, Wuhan University

CEO

Stefan von Holtzbrinck

Holtzbrinck

Isayvani Naicker

Evisights

Founding Principal

Iris ten Have

Visionaries Tomorrow

Vasilis Ntziachristos

Helmholtz Munich

Alexandros Kentikelenis

Bocconi University

Director | Jury Chair

Mario Andrés De Leo-Winkler

Autonomous Metropolitan University

President

Volker Epping

Leibniz University Hannover

Frederick Fenter

Frontiers

EVP R&D

Matthias Müller

SCHOTT AG

Dean’s Chair Professor

Ming Joo Koh

National University of Singapore

Science Breakthrough

Elaine Chew

King's College London

CTO

James Spall

Lumai

Quarraisha Abdool Karim

CAPRISA, Durban

Senior Research Manager

Detlef Berner

ROLEX SA

Director

Tanja Rosenmund

SPARK – Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH)

Joachim Ullrich

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt

Hermann Hauser

Amadeus Capital

Executive Director

Jorge Cortell

TECH Tokyo

Jury Chair

Rokia Raslan

University College London

Carsten Hucho

Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik

Jury Chair

Christina Landbrecht

Schering Stiftung Berlin

Marcus Lobbes

Academy for Theatre and Digitality

Carrie Boyce

Royal Canadian Institute for Science (RCIScience)

President

Fatma Deniz

Technische Universität Berlin HQ

Michael Bruter

London School of Economics and Political Science

Director

Michael Rosemann

Centre for Future Enterprise, Queensland University of Technology

Science Breakthrough

Saw Wai Hla

Ohio University and Argonne National Laboratory

Science Breakthrough

Tammy Ma

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Partner

Marcus Remmers

Novo Holdings

Chief of Linkage Department

Gylmar Mariel Cárdenas

Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí

Co-Founder & Partner

Christian Nagel

Earlybird Venture Capital

Managing Director, CEO

Carsten Schicker

WHS Foundation GmbH

Vice-Rector

Vincent Poitout

Université de Montréal

President and CEO

Mehrdad Hariri

Canadian Science Policy Centre

Chair Research Fellow

Rongping Mu

Faculty of Business for Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China

Pro Vice-Chancellor

Dan Johnson

Macquarie University

Secretary General

Natia Gamkrelidze

EULiST European University Alliance

President

Måns Svensson

Jönköping University

Director

Sergio I. Valdés-Ferrer

TecSalud, Instituto Tecnológico

Vice-President

Dominique Bérubé

McGill University

Vice Chancellor for Research

Steve Griffiths

American University of Sharjah

President

Alejandro Adem

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Executive Director

Jessica Bönsch

Stiftung Jugend forscht e.V.

Science Breakthrough of the Year 2023

Alessandro Grillini-Kromm

Reyedar

President, Polish Physical Society

Stanislaw Kistryn

Jagiellonian University

Head of International Relations

Dominic Hurley

Institute of Physics (IOP)

Vice-President, Arts, Sciences, Culture and Society

Pierre-Marie Chauvin

Sorbonne University

Vice President, Head of Global Sustainability & Human Rights Officer

Corinna Wolf

Infineon Technologies AG

Director, Centre for the Future of Work

Wesley Rosslyn-Smith

University of Pretoria

Chief Innovation and Technology Officer

Benoît Pirenne

Ocean Networks Canada

Vice-President, Strategy, Regions and Policy

Maggie Gorman

International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

President and CEO

Tijs Creutzberg

Council of Canadian Academies

Knowledge Transfer (TRIANGEL)

Manuel Köcher

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Dean, Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences

Elisabet Syverud

University of South-Eastern Norway

Dean, School of Business

Ingunn Elvekrok

University of South-Eastern Norway

Managing Director

Beatrice Lugger

NaWik – National Institute for Science Communication

Director of the Institute; Research Fellow

Xuejiao Feng

Jiangxi Academy of Sciences

Head of the Department of International Cooperation

Dobrivoje Lale Erić

Center for the Promotion of Science

Director

Wenke Weinreich

Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS

Scientific Director; Member, German Science Council

Oliver Zielinski

Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon

CEO

Jens Junker

ROTOP Pharmaka GmbH

Director, SAP for Startups MEE

Tino Albrecht

SAP

Member of the Executive Board

Eva Nemela

Körber-Stiftung

Vice-Rector

Valérie Amiraux

University of Montreal

Director of the First Research Office; Associate Research Fellow

Yaofei Chen

Jiangxi Academy of Sciences

Executive Director

Nisha Owen

Global Greengrants Fund UK

Board Chair

Rose Wurong Wang

New Cornerstone Science Foundation

CEO

Nadav Douani

ScienceAbroad

Chief Executive Officer

Renai Grace

Queensland Museum

R&D Platform Lead, Purina Petcare

Brittany Vester Boler

Nestlé Purina Global R&D

Head of National and International Relations

Melanie dos Santos Mendes

Forschungszentrum Jülich

Vice President for Digital Strategy

Julia Dittrich

LMU Munich

Director of Education & Skills

Stephanie Levy

EIT RawMaterials

Associate Director for International Research; Director, Fogarty International Center

Steven Schiff

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Deputy Director

Mariana Dyakova

WHO Collaborating Centre on Investment for Health and Well-being

Director, NYU Berlin

Gabriella Etmektsoglou

New York University

Vice President

Zhi Liu

ShanghaiTech University

Deputy Director

Sebastian Ulbert

Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI)

State Secretary (retired)

Cornelia Quennet-Thielen

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Vice-President for Research

Laurent Counillon

Université Côte d'Azur

Vice-President for International Relations

Raphael Terreux

Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

Head of Misinformation Programmes

Nina Grassmann

UK Government Office for Science

Director, EMEA – Government, Funders and Non-Profits

James Kenney

Digital Science & Research Solutions

General Manager Germany

Markus Vossmann

Illumina

Director of Research & Head of Public Engagement, Institute for Ethics in AI

Caroline Emmer De Albuquerque Green

University of Oxford

Vice President for Utilisation, Innovation and Life-long Learning

Mats Lundqvist

Chalmers University of Technology

Director, Policy and Government Relations

Kori St Cyr

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Director, Office of Special Initiatives, NCATS

Danilo Tagle

National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NIH)

Global Manager AI

Nestor Bustamante

Springer Nature

Vice Rector for Research, Innovation & Impact (Rector-elect)

Dirk Leuffen

University of Konstanz

Deputy Secretary General

Heidi Esca-Scheuringer

Austrian University of Applied Sciences Conference (FHK)

SVP & Ambassador to Europe

Guido Boehmelt

Curie.Bio

Executive Director, Government and Public Sector Partnerships

Véronique Dault

CIFAR

Member of the Bundestag (CDU)

Florian Müller

Deutscher Bundestag

Professor, Chair of Innovation Management

Carsten Dreher

Freie Universität Berlin

Editorial Lead, Research.Table

Nicola Kuhrt

Table.Briefings

Vice-Rector for Teaching and Studies

Beatrix Busse

University of Cologne

President

Susanne Menzel-Riedl

Osnabrück University

Director

Gift Laura Obanda

Pint of Science Kenya

Executive Director, Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Ian Henderson

The University of Queensland

Secretary General

Catherine Saracco

Udice – French Research Universities

Professor of Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Ulrich Beuers

Amsterdam UMC (University of Amsterdam)

Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman to Germany

Maitha Saif Majid Al Mahrouqi

Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman

Deputy Director General for Strategy and International Affairs

Naomi Beck

Council for Higher Education (Israel)

Professor of Online Communication

Thorsten Quandt

University of Münster

Director General

Barbara Massing

Deutsche Welle

Secretary General of the DAAD (retired)

Christian Bode

DAAD

Rector

Jens Kreisel

University of Luxembourg

Secretary General

Katrin Dircksen

ECIU University Alliance

Special Advisor, Science Diplomacy and Engagement

Richard Stone

Human Frontier Science Program

President

Thomas Fetzer

University of Mannheim

Secretary General

Esther Seng

German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat)

Professor of Artificial Intelligence

Raúl Rojas González

Freie Universität Berlin

Professor of Geophysics

James Hammond

Birkbeck, University of London

President

Rivoarison Randrianasolo

University of Antananarivo

Founder & Managing Director

Jürgen Kluge

Kluge & Partner

Policy Adviser

Hanna Gers

Embassy of New Zealand

Chief Scientific Officer

Guntram Bauer

Human Frontier Science Program

Dean of the Faculty of Science

Marcel Dinger

University of Sydney

Interim President and Vice-Chancellor

Jino Distasio

University of Winnipeg

Member of the Bundestag (SPD)

Maja Wallstein

Deutscher Bundestag

Member of the European Parliament (CDU)

Andrea Wechsler

European Parliament

VP, Head of Development & Engineering

Alex Schafgans

ASML

Member of the Bundestag (SPD)

Holger Mann

Deutscher Bundestag

Managing Director

Markus Wener

Berthold Leibinger Stiftung

Innovation & Research Policy

Torsten Bathmann

vfa (German Association of Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies)

Executive Director (CEO)

Lars Bo Nielsen

Villum Foundation

Executive VP for Research and Innovation

Gerhard Kramer

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Deputy Chief Executive

Matthew Brown

Group of Eight (Go8) Australia

Director, Paris Office

Shihoko Hasegawa

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

President & Scientific Director

Morag Park

Gairdner Foundation

Executive Director, Global Health Policy Lab

Branwen Hennig

Virchow Foundation

Executive Director

Kristina Notz

Social Entrepreneurship Akademie

Head of Strategic Market Access Programmes

Tina Taube

EFPIA

Director

Alexander Kordyuk

Kyiv Academic University

Global Head of Science & Startup Collaborations

Philipp Lill

Siemens AG

Member of the Bundestag; former Federal Minister of Health

Karl Lauterbach

Deutscher Bundestag

Rector

Jens Ringsmose

University of Southern Denmark (SDU)

Ambassador of Canada to Germany

Vera Alexander

Embassy of Canada

Head of Startup Division

Amine Mokri

CNRS Innovation

Rector

Kaarlo Hildén

University of the Arts Helsinki

Chief Acceleration Manager

Anika Vooes

REWE digital

Vice President for Research

Jack Horack

Ohio State University

Executive Director

David Lang

Experiment Foundation

Professor of Sociology

Armin Nassehi

LMU Munich

Vice-Chancellor

Sibongile Muthwa

Nelson Mandela University

President

Caspar van den Berg

Universities of the Netherlands

Professor & Dean, School of Humanities

Emmanouel Koutouzis

Hellenic Open University

Director, Academic Planning

Anthony Amaechi Attama

University of Nigeria, Nsukka

CEO

Keyvan Maleki

Community Circle on Scaling Business Innovation for Humanity

Supervisory Board Member

Martina Merz

Robert Bosch GmbH

Vice-Rector

Katarina Vukojević

University of Split

First Secretary, Science & Technology

Georgia Watson

UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Research Sector

Nipun Vats

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)

Rector

Katharina Riedel

University of Greifswald

Former President, German Research Foundation (DFG)

Ernst Ludwig Winnacker

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

CEO (Secretary General)

Ingrid Ross

Norwegian Cancer Society

Vice President

Marcin Jakub Pałys

European University Association (EUA)

President, SEBBM

Antonio Ferrer Montiel

Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM)

Founder & President

Patrick Awuah

Ashesi University

Interim President

Normand Labrie

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Secretary General

Elena Del Giorgio

4EU+ European University Alliance

Institute Director; Fusion Program Spokesperson

Christoph Kirchlechner

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Ambassador

Andries Oosthuizen

Embassy of South Africa, Berlin

Senior VP, New Materials and Markets

Martin Arndt

Heraeus Covantics

Professor of Sustainability Science

Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir

University of Iceland

Rector

Jens Schneider

TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology)

Vice-President for International Relations

Antoine Kouchner

Université Paris Cité

Chairman & Managing Director

Declan Kirrane

ISC Intelligence in Science

Rector Magnificus

Silvia Lenaerts

Eindhoven University of Technology

Director of Entrepreneurship

Ben Mumby-Croft

Imperial College London

Director of Business Development

Tavis Ezell

Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY

Futurist & Head of Media

Sofie Hvitved

Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

Chief Analysis Officer; Grant Area Director

Mette Lindgaard

Villum Foundation

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (External Engagement)

Jessica Gallagher

University of Adelaide

CEO

Hans Snijder

Dutch Heart Foundation

Creative Director

Kathrin DiPaola

1014 (New York)

CEO

Uwe Bau

Gauss Fusion

Director, Learning Health System Leadership Centre

Laura Desveaux

Trillium Health Partners

Director

Venkata Amarnadh Surapaneni

Morphik Altmatter

Chairman of the Council

Mikołaj Cześnik

Stefan Batory Foundation

Chief Executive

Vicki Thomson

Group of Eight (Go8) Australia

R&D Innovation Lead

Denis Favez

Rolex SA

Vice-Rector for Research

Sven Meuth

University of Münster

CEO

Lars Hultman

Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)

Associate Vice-President, Innovation

Darren Fast

University of Alberta

CTO & Co-Founder

Yonatan Cohen

Quantum Machines

Director of Partnerships and Development

Marcel Lewicki

Munich Security Conference

Vice-President for International Affairs

Isabel Martínez

CSIC

Head of Transfer Service

Lars ten Bosch

HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts

CEO

Carlos Graeff

FAPESP – São Paulo Research Foundation

Rector

Nino Doborjginidze

Ilia State University

Oxford–Novo Nordisk Fellow

Xhoela Bame

University of Oxford

Ambassador of Ireland to Germany

Maeve Collins

Embassy of Ireland

General Manager

Junko Miyazawa

Mitsubishi International GmbH

Managing Director

Gunther Friedl

Dieter Schwarz Stiftung

Investment Director

David Urry

Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade)

CEO

Stéphane Duguin

CyberPeace Institute

Head of Department, Environmental Communication & International Funding

Cornelia Soetbeer

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

President

Uri Sivan

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

CEO

Charles McGill

ElectraLith

Vice President for International Affairs

Milette Shamir

Tel Aviv University

CSO & Co-Founder

Glenn King

Infensa Bioscience

Managing Director

John Thomas

German Primate Center (DPZ)

Team Leader

Jooseop Lee

Chey Institute for Advanced Studies

Director

Christoph Platz-Gallus

Kunstverein Hannover

Director, Center for European and Eurasian Studies

Volodymyr Tarabara

Michigan State University

Division Head

Holger Junge

VDI Technologiezentrum

Head of Science, Technology and Innovation

Brando Okolo

AUDA-NEPAD

Founder & CEO

Prantar Tamuli

Tattva Bio

Visiting Professor

Guangcun Shan

City University of Hong Kong

Founder and Chairman

Atallah Kuttab

SAANED for Philanthropy Advisory in the Arab Region

Director, Chain Reaction Innovations

Dick Co

Argonne National Laboratory

Secretary General

Maria-Valerie Schegk

YUFE European University Alliance

Vice-Présidente Recherche

Muriel Hissler

Université de Rennes

Deputy Director

Steffen Rupp

Fraunhofer IGB

Country Representative for Sweden

Tetsushi Abe

Mitsubishi International GmbH

Executive Vice President Strategy and Business Development @ ID Quantique

Axel Foery

IonQ

Executive Director, Office for Public Engagement and Scholarship

Burton Bargerstock

Michigan State University

Minister der Finanzen und für Wissenschaft

Jakob von Weizsäcker

Ministerium für Finanzen und Wissenschaft des Saarlandes

Chief Executive Officer

Michael Moloney

American Institute of Physics

Associate Vice-President (Innovation and Strategic Partnerships)

David Muir

Western University

President

Antje Krause

Technische Hochschule Bingen

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