The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is responsible for the annual evaluation of all nominees and the selection of the winner on behalf of the Marcel Benoist Foundation. For this purpose, the SNSF sets up a new evaluation panel every year, which consists of international experts, two elected representatives, members of the SNSF National Research Council and one member of the Marcel Benoist Foundation.
The eleven members of the 2018 evaluation panel
Ola Söderström
Professor of Culture and Social Geography at the University of Neuchâtel, President of the Humanities and Science division of the SNSF National Research Council and President of this year’s evaluation panel. More information
Madeleine Herren-Oesch
Professor and Director of the Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel, Vice President of the Humanities and Science division of the SNSF National Research Council, More information
Martine Rahier
Professor of Entomology and Animal Ecology at the University of Neuchâtel, former Rector of the University of Neuchâtel, representative of the Marcel Benoist Foundation in this year’s evaluation panel, More information
Christine Beerli
Lawyer, former member of the cantonal parliament of Bern and former Vice President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, non-academic member of this year’s evaluation panel, More information
Claudia Comte
Swiss artist, non-academic member of this year’s evaluation panel, More information
Barbara Dauner-Lieb
Lawyer, Professor and Director of the Institute of Employment, Business and Corporate Law at the University of Cologne, More information
Markus Gabriel
Professor and Director of the International Centre for Philosophy at the University of Bonn, More information
Thomas Abel
Professor of Public Health at the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Bern, More information
Morten Ravn
Professor of Macroeconomics at University College London, Deputy Chairman of the Danish National Research Foundation, More information
Lourens de Vries
Professor of General Linguistics and Bible Translation and Dean of Research in the Faculty of Humanities at the Free University of Amsterdam, More information
Jaan Valsiner
Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, More information