The Princess of Asturias Foundation

40 nominations encompassing 16 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 43rd year

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The Jury responsible for conferring the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research will meet this coming 6th and 7th June in Oviedo. This is the seventh of the eight international awards convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation this year, now in their 43rd year. A total of 40 candidatures encompassing 16 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 “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.

The members of the Jury will hold an initial meeting with the media at 11:00am on Tuesday 6th in the hotel’s “Salón de Consejos” reception room (first floor) immediately prior to its formal constitution and the start of its deliberations, which will commence at 11:30am, after the group photograph. 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 7th, in the “Salón Covadonga” reception room in 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 (chair)
Cristina Garmendia Mendizábal (acting secretary)
Jesús A. del Álamo
Alberto Aparici Benages
Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras
Avelino Corma Canós
Miguel Delibes de Castro
Sandra Myrna Díaz
Clara Grima Ruiz
Bernardo Hernández González
Jerónimo López Martínez
Inmaculada Martínez Rubio
Amador Menéndez Velázquez
Concepción Alicia Monje Micharet
Ginés Morata Pérez
Inés Rodríguez Hidalgo
María Teresa Telleria Jorge
María Vallet Regí
María Paz Zorzano Mier

APPENDICES: LIST OF PREVIOUS LAUREATES

List of previous Laureates

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