Meeting of the jury for the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research

The Jury responsible for conferring the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research will meet this coming 11th and 12th June in Oviedo. This is the seventh of the eight international awards convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation this year, now in their 45th year. A total of 59 candidatures encompassing 23 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 astronomy and astrophysics, chemistry, earth and space sciences, life sciences, mathematics, medical sciences, physics 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 Wednesday 11th, 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 Thursday 12th, 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)
• Manuel Toharia Cortés (acting secretary)
• Jesús del Álamo
• Alberto Aparici Benages
• Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras
• Avelino Corma Canós
• Elena García Armada
• Bernardo Hernández González
• Rosa Menéndez López
• Amador Menéndez Velázquez
• Concepción Alicia Monje Micharet
• Ginés Morata Pérez
• Erika Pastrana Izquierdo
• Noemí Pinilla Alonso
• Lluis Quintana-Murci
• Peregrina Quintela Estévez
• María Teresa Telleria Jorge
• María Vallet Regí