Chairperson of the Jury
Research professor, Institute of Sciences of the Sea, Superior Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) (Barcelona, Spain) Members
Emeritus professor, Division of Benthonic Ecosystems, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven, Germany)
Professor of Ecology at the Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Seville, (Seville, Spain).
Director of the Ecophysiological Laboratory of the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station of Naples (Italy).
Research Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego (USA).
Research professor at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) (Montreal, Canada).
Research Professor, Founding Member of the Institute of Ecology, Autonomous National University of Mexico, Mexico City.