General Prize Committee

Sommario

Working within the “Prize” Foundation in Milan, the General Prize Committee is composed of twenty members of international renown from all over Europe, who are selected from among the most distinguished figures in the humanities, sciences, and arts.

The General Prize Committee establishes the subject areas for the awards and decides on the winners from among the nominations entered by the world’s most important international cultural institutions – universities, research institutes, and academies – at the Foundation’s request.

Marta Cartabia
Italy Chair

Marta Cartabia

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

Bonhoeffer2
Switzerland/Germany Vice Chair

Sebastian Bonhoeffer

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

Peter Kuon
Austria/Germany Vice Chair

Peter Kuon

Professor Emeritus of Romance Philology at the University of Salzburg

Adler
The Netherlands/USA

Nanci Adler

Professor of Memory, History and Transitional Justice, University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of the Humanities, a chair established in partnership with the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam

Frances Ashcroft
United Kingdom

Frances Ashcroft

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

Sierd Cloetingh
The Netherlands

Sierd A.P.L. Cloetingh

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

Debernardis2019
Italy

Paolo de Bernardis

Full Professor at the Department of Physics, Sapienza Università di Roma; 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

Borge Diderichsen
Denmark

Børge Diderichsen

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

Salwa Castelo Branco
Portugal/Egypt

Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco

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, International Honorary Member of the American Academy for Arts and Sciences

Nathalie Heinich
France

Nathalie Heinich

Directeur de recherche émérite 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

Inguscio
Italy

Massimo Inguscio

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; Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, and of the Academia Europæa

Mantovani72
Italy

Alberto Mantovani

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; Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, of the Academia Europæa, and of the US Academy of Sciences

Margetts
United Kingdom

Helen Margetts

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)

Riedweg-rid
Switzerland

Christoph Riedweg

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

Maria Stromme
Sweden/Norway

Maria Strømme

Full Professor and Nanotechnology Chair of 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

vonMutius72
Germany

Erika von Mutius

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)

Weddigen2025
Switzerland

Tristan Weddigen

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

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