Present: Literature

A.B. Yehoshua is one of Israel’s leading fiction writers since his debut in the late 1950s

Future: Astronomy

Prof. Andrzej Udalski is the former Director of the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw and the head of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment.

Past: Archaeology and Natural Sciences

Prof. David Reich, from the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, USA, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is the world’s leading pioneer in analyzing ancient human DNA.

Present: Literature

Jamaica Kincaid is celebrated worldwide as one of the most important and influential writers today.

Future: Astronomy

Prof. Neil Gehrels was the Director of the NASA Astroparticle Physics Laboratory and a leading figure for several decades in the field of gamma ray astronomy.

Future: Astronomy

Shrinivas Kulkarni is the Director of Caltech Optical Observatories and the Director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute.

Past: Archaeology and Natural Sciences

Prof. Svante Pääbo is the Director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany.