Roman Krahne, Teresa Pellegrino and Liberato Manna
IIT aims to promote excellence in basic and applied research and to foster the development of the national economy. IIT is an interdisciplinary research institute that unites expertise from different fields such as material science, robotics, drug development, neuroscience and nanotechnologies that attracts top scientist from all over the world.
Jochen Feldmann, Alexander Urban, Theobald Lohmüller
LMU is recognized as one of Europe's premier academic and research institutions. Since our founding in 1472, LMU has attracted inspired scholars and talented students from all over the world, keeping the University at the nexus of ideas that challenge and change our complex world.
Zeger Hens, Dries Van Thourhout, Isabel Van Driessche, Edouard Brainis and Iwan Moreels
Ghent University is a top 100 university and one of the major universities in Belgium. Our 11 faculties offer a wide range of courses and conduct in-depth research within a wide range of scientific domains.
Daniël Vanmaekelbergh
Utrecht University is an international research university of the highest quality and the alma mater of many leading names, academics and scientists who have made an important contribution to the quality of society.
Stefano Cabrini, Alexander Weber-Bargioni, Emory Chan
The Molecular Foundry is a Department of Energy-funded nanoscience research facility that provides users from around the world with access to cutting-edge expertise and instrumentation in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment.
Peidong Yang
From a group of academic pioneers in 1868 to the Free Speech Movement in 1964, Berkeley is a place where the brightest minds from across the globe come together to explore, ask questions and improve the world.
Frank Wise, Tobias Hanrath, Poul Pedersen, Ulrich Wiesner and Andrej Singer
Cornell is the federal land-grant institution of New York State, a private endowed university, a member of the Ivy League/Ancient Eight, and a partner of the State University of New York. It has been described as the first truly American university because of its founders' revolutionarily egalitarian and practical vision of higher education, and is dedicated to its land-grant mission of outreach and public service.
Jonathan Owen, P. James Schuck and Timothy Berkelbach
Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields.