Judges 2019 | Innovators Under 35

The thirty-five Innovators Under 35 Europe have been selected by a committee of judges from over 800 candidates. They expertly evaluated each project in order to find the most talented people who are developing innovative technological solutions for the problems of modern society.

What the thirty-five have in common is that they are developing new projects that will change all areas of society, and they are disrupting our current and future way of living and making the world a better one. The thirty-five innovators are selected from five different categories: entrepreneurs, humanitarian, pioneers, visionaries, and inventors.

Recognition by MIT Technology Review gives these young people a platform to present themselves and their achievements to industry leaders, academic experts, and the global public.

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Meet the judges

Here is the list of judges and experts in the tech ecosystem that make the competition possible:

Juan Antonio Fernández Madrigal

Full Professor, System Engineering and Automation Department at University of Málaga (Spain)

Cécile Tharaud

Innovation Consultant, Aludel and associates

Janusz Marszalec

Founder and CEO at Edison Centre, Lecturer of Entrepreneurship at Warsaw University of Technology

Laurent Hermoye

CEO of Imagilys

Ferhan Cook

Co-founder of m-Spark.org

François Jouen

Senior Researcher at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes

Bernat Ollé

CEO at Vedanta Biosciences

Piotr Kaczmarek

Assistant Professor at Poznan University of Technology, Head of Biomedical Engineering and Biocybernetics Team

Renata Krzyzynska

Head of the Department of Air Conditioning, Heating, Gas Supply, and Air Protection at Wroclaw University of Technology, ‎Faculty of Environmental Engineering

Alain Picasso

Director for Economic Development & Innovation EDF Hydro

Luis Alonso Pastor

Research Scientist at City Science Group at MIT Media Lab

Emmanuelle Tognoli

Research Professor at the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic Univeristy

Dariusz Nachyla

Entrepreneur, Investor and Consultant

Mikele Brack

Founding Partner, Urban Living Futures

Gabriel Weinstein

Ambassador of Singularity University in Argentina

Rodomiro Ortiz

Faculty Professor and Chair of Genetics & Plant Breeding at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Jorge Bravo-Abad

Associate Professor of Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Maciej Wiesner

Associate professor in Adam Mickiewicz University

Daniel Pardo

Business Development Electronics and Integrated Products at Grupo Antolin

Olivier Leclerc

Innovation catalyst & Intrapreneurship activist at SAFRAN

Yves Van Ingelgem

CEO of Zensor

Arturo Baroncelli

Business Development Manager at Comau Robotics

Luis Enrique Moreno Lorente

Full Professor at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid

Erick Brethenoux, Gartner

Research Developer

Grzegorz Wróblewski

Assistant Professor at Warsaw University of Technology

José Domingo Carrillo Verdún

Profesor "Ad Honorem" at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Kumardev Chatterjee

Founder & President at European Young Innovators Forum

Beata Czarnacka-Chrobot

Professor, Warsaw School of Economics, Collegium of Economic Analysis

Joe Haslam

Executive Director of the Owners & Enterpreneurs Management Program at the IE Business School in Madrid

John Janas

President at Janas International Enterprises, Inc.

Duygu Kayaman

Microsoft Dynamics Inside Sale Specialist, Microsoft Accessibility Team Project Coordinator, Consultant for The Young Guru Academy

Luis Buznego

International Bussines Manager, Advisor at Imasa Ingeniería y Montajes, s.a. President at Innovasturias

Paloma Cabello

Partner, Finance and Strategy Sr. Advisor and Tech Angel Investor at CALLIGRAM

Rodrigo de Alvarenga

CEO & Founder of HAG Consulting & Ventures and Startup Grind Brazil Director

Nathalie De Ceulaer

CFO - growth financing and scale-up mentor

Koenraad Debackere

Managing Director KU Leuven Research & Development

Izabela Disterheft

Director of Gdansk Science & Technology Park

Abdennour Abbas

Professor of Bionanotechnology at the University of Minnesota

Isabel Michiels

Lead expert within the expertise center innovation of Agoria

Diego Lafuente

Technology Lead at Hotelbeds Group and Celera founder

Alex Villazon

Full professor at Bolivian Private University

Jean-Yves Aubé

Administrator and President of the Jury of the Price Norbert Ségard , Vice president Icam alumni

Rubén Criado

CEO at Luz Wavelabs

Yrjö Ojasaar

Investment Partner at Change Ventures

Gregorio Moreno Vecina

Capital Partners & Ventures Managing Partner

Juan Miguel Jiménez

Senior Scientist at Repsol

Manuel Moliner

Tenured Scientist at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ)

Julien de Wit

Professor at MIT, Associate Member at the Broad Institute, and Founder of Morpheus, LLC

Tom Colin Schapira

Founder and General Partner of Imagine Capital Group

Victoria Hernandez

Head of the investment Committee, Rising Tide Europe 3

José Rivera

Associated Professor Biomedical Sciences Universidad Europea Visiting Scientist Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC)

Leona Gilbert

Docent of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Jyväskylä and CEO Te?ed Oy

Joan Bigorra

Director of Strategy and Innovation at the Barcelona Global Health Institute

Michel Duchateau

Founder of CreaDelta

William McQuillan

Partner at Frontline Ventures

Carlos Viniegra Beltrán

Founder at High Performance Analytics

Stephanie Teughels

New Ventures and Business Advisor, Healthtech Nanotech and Sensorsystems.

Rubén Costa

Head of the Hybrid Optoelectronic and Materials Lab at IMDEA Materials (Madrid)

Giovanni Traverso

Biomedical engineer and gastroenterologist

Ernest Lara

Executive Director at Richi Entrepreneurs

Bogusław Węgliński

CEO of IP Management Poland

Miguel Gonzalez Andrades

Clinician-scientist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Schepens Eye Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Maimonides Biomedical Research Institute of Cordoba (IMIBIC), Department of Ophthalmology, Reina Sofia University Hospital and University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain.