The Princess of Asturias Foundation

48 nominations encompassing 17 different nationalities are in the running for this Award, the seventh of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, now in their 44th year

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The Jury responsible for conferring the 2024 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research will meet this coming 4th and 5th June in Oviedo. This is the seventh of the eight international awards convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation this year, now in their 44th year. A total of 48 candidatures encompassing 17 different nationalities are in the running for the Award. The meetings will be held at Barceló Oviedo Cervantes Hotel.

As stated in the Foundation’s Regulations, the Princess of Asturias Awards are aimed at rewarding “the scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanitarian work carried out at an international level by individuals, institutions or groups of individuals or institutions”. In keeping with these principles, the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research is to be granted to “recognizing the work of fostering and advancing research, discovery and/or invention in the field of mathematics, astronomy and astrophysics, physics, chemistry, life sciences, medical sciences, earth and space sciences or technological sciences, including those disciplines corresponding to each of these fields as well as their related technologies.”

Each Princess of Asturias Award comprises a Joan Miró sculpture representing and symbolising the Award, a diploma, an insignia and a cash prize of fifty thousand euros.

On the first day of the meeting at 11:00am on Tuesday 4th, there will be a family photo of the jury members in the hotel’s “Salón Regenta”, followed by a meeting with the media, immediately prior to its formal constitution and the start of its deliberations, which will commence at 11:30am. Each jury shall have a chairperson and an acting secretary. Both shall be appointed by the Princess of Asturias Foundation and shall have voice and vote.

The Jury’s decision will be announced at 12:00 noon (GMT+2:00) on Wednesday 5th, in the “Salón Regenta”, following which the members of the Jury will be available for interview.

Composition of the Jury

The Jury will be made up of the following persons:

Pedro Miguel Echenique Landiríbar (chair)
Cristina Garmendia Mendizábal (acting secretary)
Jesús del Álamo
Alberto Aparici Benages
Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras
Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturáin
Avelino Corma Canós
Elena García Armada
Bernardo Hernández González
Jerónimo López Martínez
Amador Menéndez Velázquez
Ginés Morata Pérez
Peregrina Quintela Estévez
Inés Rodríguez Hidalgo
María Teresa Telleria Jorge
María Vallet Regí
María Paz Zorzano Mier

LIST OF PREVIOUS LAUREATES

List of Laureates

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