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She currently holds a Chair of Excellence in the Department of Mathematics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. With over twenty years of experience in mathematical cryptography, she has collaborated with national and international institutions such as Philips Crypto B.V., the IAKS Institute in Karlsruhe, Florida Atlantic University, and the IMDEA Software Institute. Her research focuses on provable security for both classical and post-quantum cryptographic tools. In this field, she is the author or co-author of more than 60 scientific publications, including four presented at top-tier international conferences and 31 articles published in journals indexed in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), six of which are ranked in the first quartile. She is also co-inventor of two patents. Some of her recent work explores verification techniques aimed at enhancing the security of artificial intelligence systems .

She is currently the Principal Investigator of the Spanish node of the project Secure Communication via Classical and Quantum Technologies, funded by NATO's Science for Peace and Security Programme. Since 2017, she has served on the Board of the Spanish Royal Mathematical Society (RSME), where she currently holds the position of Vice President. Also, she is co-director of the NATO SPS project  “Secure Communication via Classical and Quantum Technologies” and General Co-Chair of  IACR Eurocrypt 2025.

Raimundo Pérez-Hernández y Torra, diplomat and ambassador, he  has been Director General of the Ramón Areces Foundation since 2008. A Law graduate from the Complutense University in Madrid, he joined the Diplomatic Corps in 1976.

Until he joined the Ramón Areces Foundation, his professional career was in Public Administration, where he held the positions of adviser at the Spanish Permanent Delegation to the United Nations; economic and trade adviser at the Spanish Embassy in France; Head of Protocol in the Spanish Prime Minister's Office, with the rank of director-general; executive chairman of the Organising Committee for the Spanish Presidency of the European Union Council, with the rank of under-secretary; Ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations and other international organisations based in Geneva; chairman of the Executive Committee of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. He has served as Spanish Ambassador to the Republic of Austria and Chief of Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAEC), with the rank of ambassador.

Adam Smith is Chief Scientific Officer at Nobel Prize Outreach. After fellowships in molecular biology, neuroscience and physiology in Oxford, Harvard and Heidelberg, he pursued research in developmental neuroscience at Oxford University before moving into science publishing. At Nature Publishing Group he launched ‘Nature Reviews Drug Discovery’ as chief editor and then, as publisher, ran Nature’s biopharma portfolio of journals. Prior to joining Nobel Prize Outreach, he was journals publishing director at Informa Healthcare.

In his current role, his projects include directing the Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative, an educational programme that takes laureates to meet and inspire the next generation of scientists around the world, curating the content of Nobel Prize Outreach’s global science and society meeting series, the Nobel Prize Dialogue, and hosting the ongoing Nobel Prize Conversations series of podcasts.

Serge Haroche was born in 1944 in Casablanca. He graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), receiving his doctorate from Paris VI University in 1971. After a post-doctoral visit to Stanford University in the laboratory of Arthur Schawlow (1972-73), he became full professor at Paris VI University in 1975, a position he held until 2001, when he was appointed Professor at Collège de France in the chair of quantum physics. He has been part time professor at Yale University (1984-1993), member of Institut Universitaire de France (1991-2000) and chairman of the ENS Department of Physics (1994-2000). In September 2012, he has been appointed Administrateur du Collège de France, equivalent to President of this institution, a position he held until September 2015. Since then, he has been Professor Emeritus at Collège de France.

Haroche’s research has mostly taken place in the laboratory Kastler Brossel at ENS. His main research activities have been in quantum optics and quantum information science. He has made important contributions to cavity quantum electrodynamics (cavity QED), the domain of quantum optics which studies the behaviour of atoms interacting strongly with the field confined in a high-Q cavity, a box made of highly reflecting mirrors. An atom-photon system isolated from the outside world by metallic walls realises a very simple experimental model which Haroche has used to test fundamental concepts of quantum physics such as state superposition, entanglement, complementarity and decoherence. Some of these experiments are actual realisations in the laboratory of the ‘thought experiments’ imagined by the founding fathers of quantum mechanics.

Haroche’s main achievements in cavity QED include the observation of single atom spontaneous emission enhancement in a cavity (1983), the direct monitoring of the decoherence of mesoscopic superpositions of states (so-called Schrödinger cat states) (1996) and the quantum-non-demolition counting of photons (2007). By manipulating atoms and photons in high-Q cavities, he has also demonstrated elementary steps of quantum information procedures such as the generation of atom-atom and atom-photon entanglement (1997) and the operation of quantum logic gates involving photons and atoms as ‘quantum bits’ (1999).

Haroche has received many prizes and awards, culminating in the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with David Wineland for “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”. Haroche is a member of the French and European Academies of Sciences. He is also a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Brazilian, Colombian, Russian and Moroccan Academies of Sciences. He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the Weizmann Institute and of the Universities of Montreal, Patras, Strathclyde and Bar Ilan.

Geoffrey Hinton, physics laureate and the “Godfather of AI,” is internationally renowned as a pioneer in the field of deep learning as a mode of artificial intelligence. With John J. Hopfield, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks,” including his invention of the Boltzmann machine using statistical physics techniques.

In 2018, Hinton received the Association for Computing Machinery’s A.M. Turing Award, often called the “Nobel Prize in Computing,” alongside Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun “for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.” Hinton received his BA in experimental psychology from the University of Cambridge in 1970 and his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1978. After completing postdoctoral work at Sussex University and the University of California San Diego, he spent five years as a faculty member in the Computer Science department at Carnegie Mellon University. He then became a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and moved to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto in 1987.

Hinton spent three years from 1998 until 2001 setting up the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London and then returned to the University of Toronto, where he was named a university professor in 2006 and is now university professor emeritus. Since 2017, Hinton has been chief scientific advisor at the Vector Institute in Toronto. Photo: Johnny Guatto, University of Toronto.

She currently holds a Chair of Excellence in the Department of Mathematics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. With over twenty years of experience in mathematical cryptography, she has collaborated with national and international institutions such as Philips Crypto B.V., the IAKS Institute in Karlsruhe, Florida Atlantic University, and the IMDEA Software Institute. Her research focuses on provable security for both classical and post-quantum cryptographic tools. In this field, she is the author or co-author of more than 60 scientific publications, including four presented at top-tier international conferences and 31 articles published in journals indexed in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), six of which are ranked in the first quartile. She is also co-inventor of two patents. Some of her recent work explores verification techniques aimed at enhancing the security of artificial intelligence systems .

She is currently the Principal Investigator of the Spanish node of the project Secure Communication via Classical and Quantum Technologies, funded by NATO's Science for Peace and Security Programme. Since 2017, she has served on the Board of the Spanish Royal Mathematical Society (RSME), where she currently holds the position of Vice President. Also, she is co-director of the NATO SPS project  “Secure Communication via Classical and Quantum Technologies” and General Co-Chair of  IACR Eurocrypt 2025.