Planetary geologist; Courtesy Research Professor, University of Central Florida; Vice-Chair of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology; Former Lead Program Executive for NASA’s New Frontiers Program; Member of the Colombian Academy of Sciences; National Hispanic Scientist of the Year (2016)

Physicist; President of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; Professor at Vilnius University; Former Acting Rector of Vilnius University; Full Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; Foreign Member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences; Corresponding Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences; twice recipient of the Lithuanian Science Prize

Nutrition scientist; Professor Emeritus, University of Sydney; Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science; Officer of the Order of Australia; Founding President of the Glycemic Index Foundation; internationally recognised for research on the glycaemic index and carbohydrate nutrition

Chemist and nanoscientist; ICREA Research Professor and Group Leader at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology; Member of the Academy of Sciences of Albania; Member of the European Academy of Sciences; Co-Editor-in-Chief of Biosensors and Bioelectronics

Mathematician; Chair Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology; Chief Researcher, V. I. Romanovsky Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan; Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences; Recipient of Uzbekistan’s State Prize in Science and Technology

Theoretical physicist; Nobel Laureate in Physics (1973); Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Fellow of the Royal Society; Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Linguist; Director of the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS); Professor of General Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Member of Leopoldina German National Academy of Sciences; Member of Academia Europaea; Member of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; Recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

Chemist; Full Member and President of the Romanian Academy; Director of the “Costin D. Nenitzescu” Institute of Organic and Supramolecular Chemistry; Emeritus Professor, University of Bucharest; Member of Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences; Honorary Member of Academy of Sciences of Moldova

Biochemist; Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (2001); Emeritus Group Leader, Francis Crick Institute; Fellow of the Royal Society; International Member of the US National Academy of Sciences; Member of Academia Europaea; International Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Honorary Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh

Plant scientist; Professor of Agronomy, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University; Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences; Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences; Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology; Recipient of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences Gold Medal

Materials scientist; Senior Scientist, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences; Former President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and European Ceramic Society; Member of the European Academy of Sciences; Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics; Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and European Ceramic Society

Materials scientist; Professor of Industrial Chemistry, University of Trieste; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering; Member of Academia Europaea; Fellow of European Academy of Sciences; Fellow of TWAS; Foreign Fellow; Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering