• The Grand Jury 2007

 

The President

Ms Claudie Haigneré
Senior advisor to ESA Director-General, France


The members

Professor Jan Balzarini
Rega Institute for Medical Research Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Descartes Prize winner in 2001

Professor Dr Sci. Tatiana Birshtein
Principal Scientist of the Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Professor of the St. Petersburg State University
Winner of the l'Oréal-UNESCO “Women in Science” prize 2007 – Europe

Professor Pierre Coullet
Professor at the University of Nice, France, and Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France

Professor Patrick Cunningham
Chief Scientific Adviser to the Irish Government

Professor Christina Gavrilovici
Associated Professor in Bioethics, University of Medicine and Pharmacy IASI, Romania, and Romanian Bioethics Committee

Mr Andrzej Górski
Vice-president, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Professor of Medicine, The Medical University of Warsaw

Professor Elmars Grens
Scientific Director of the Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre

Professor Nouzha Guessous-Idrissi
Medical Biologist and Parasitologist. Former Professor at the Medical School of Casablanca (1985-2005)
Researcher and consultant in Human Rights and Bioethics
Member of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO (former President 2005-2007)

Professor Lucia Mendoça Previato
Brazilian Academy of Science
Winner of the L'Oréal-UNESCO “Women in Science” prize 2004

Professor Gretty M. Mirdal
Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen Denmark

Professor Mary Osborn
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany
Winner of the L'Oréal-UNESCO “Women in Science” Prize 2002 – Europe
Past President of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB)

Dr Rossella Palomba
Director of Research at the National Research Council- Institute for Population and Social Policies, Italy

Dr Karen Siune
Director of the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy at the University of Aarhus, Denmark

Professor Edward Van den Heuvel
Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Amsterdam (UA), The Netherlands
Descartes prize winner in 2002
 


 

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