Lord Lewis
Chairman of the judging panel, Lord Lewis, is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry in the University of Cambridge, having held the chair of inorganic chemistry for 25 years. He has been Warden of Robinson College since its inception in 1975. He is currently very involved in environmental issues, and serves on a number of environmental committees.
Prof Paul Engel
A professor of biochemistry at University College Dublin since 1994, Prof Engel's research interests include enzymology and protein engineering. He received a DPhil in 1968 from Oxford and was a NATO post-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. He was on the staff of Sheffield University from 1970 to 1994 and was a founding director of the Krebs Institute.
Prof George Walmsley
Dean of the Faculty of Science and Agriculture at Queen's University Belfast, Prof Walmsley's research interests are in the physics of solids, superconductivity and the electron tunnel effect. He graduated from Queen's and did his PhD at McMaster University in Canada. He spent periods visiting at Iowa State University, the University of Paris and the Autonomous University of Madrid.
Prof Werner Rathmeyer
Professor of Biology and dean of the Biology Faculty at the University of Konstanz in Germany, Prof Rathmayer's main area of research is in the neurobiology of invertebrates. He chairs the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology section of the Academia Europaea and is a member of the German Academy Leopoldina. He is past president of the German Zoological Society.
Prof Dervilla Donnelly
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at University College Dublin, Prof Donnelly chaired the initial judging panel which selected the three finalists. She is chairman of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, is a past president of the RDS, a member of the European Science & Technology Assembly and a Council Member of the Royal Irish Academy.