Meeting of the jury for the 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research

The Jury responsible for conferring the 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research will meet this coming 12th and 13th May in Oviedo. This is the third of the eight international awards convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation this year, now in their 46th year. A total of 56 candidatures encompassing 24 different nationalities are in the running for the Award. The meetings will be held at the Reconquista 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 “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 Tuesday 12th, there will be a family photo of the jury members in the hotel’s “Salón de Consejos”, 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 13th, in the “Salón Covadonga” of the same Hotel (Ground Floor), 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 (presidente)
• Manuel Toharia Cortés (secretario)
• Arturo Álvarez-Buylla Roces
• Alberto Aparici Benages
• Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras
• Mar Capeáns Garrido
• 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
• Peregrina Quintela Estévez
• María Vallet Regí