João Zilhão (University of Lisbon) João Zilhão, professor of archaeology and expert on Neanderthals, received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa on the 24th February 2026. Read more
Frances Separovic (University of Melbourne) Frances Separovic - Professor Emeritus of chemistry and pioneer in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) for the study of membranes - received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa on the 21st November 2024. Read more
Sudha Seshadri (University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) Sudha Seshadri - Founding Director of the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s & neurodegenerative diseases and Director of the South Texas Alzheimer Disease Research Center - received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa on the 24th June 2024. Read more
Anne L’Huillier (Lund University) Anne L’Huillier - Professor of Atomic Physics and 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics - received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa on the 28th March 2024. Read more
Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton University) Orley Ashenfelter - Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics - received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa on the 6th April 2023. Read more
Matthew Tirrell (University of Chicago) Matthew Tirrell - Dean of the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering - received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa on the 17th June 2022. Read more
Martin J. Blaser (Rutgers University) Martin J. Blaser - Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, Director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine and Henry Rutgers Chair of the Human Microbiome - received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa on the 10th May 2022. Read more
Michel L. Tremblay (McGill University) Michel L. Tremblay - biochemist, James McGill Professor, Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Centre, Jeanne and J.-Louis Levesque Chair in Cancer Research, President elect of the Canadian Academy of Science - received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa on the 10th May 2022. Read more
Martin Vetterli (Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne) Martin Vetterli - President of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne and specialist in digital signal processing and wavelet theory - received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa on the 5th October 2021. Read more
Manuela Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University) Manuela Veloso - Head of JP Morgan Chase AI Research and Herbert A. Simon university professor emeritus - received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa on the 5th October 2021. Read more
Daniel Klionsky (University of Michigan) Daniel Klionsky - Professor of Life Sciences - received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa on the 14th November 2019. Read more
Monica Di Luca (University of Milan) Monica Di Luca - Professor of pharmacology - received the title of Honoris Causa on the 15th October 2019. Read more
Tadafumi Adschiri (Tohoku University) Tadafumi Adschiri - Professor of the Advanced Institute for Materials Research - received the title of Honoris Causa on the 21st May 2019. Read more
Ban Ki-moon (Yonseï University) Ban Ki-moon - 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations (2007-2016), Honorary Chair of the Institute for Global Engagement and Empowerment, Yonseï University (Seoul, Korea), Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor - received the title of Honoris Causa on the 17th December 2018. Read more
Marcel Fournier (University of Montreal) Marcel Fournier - Professor of sociology at the University of Montreal - received the title of Honoris Causa on the 15th October 2018. Read more
Robert G. Roeder (Rockefeller University) Robert G. Roeder - Professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Rockefeller University in New York - received the title of Honoris Causa on the 15th of October 2018. Read more
Claudio Franceschi (University of Bologna) Claudio Franceschi - Prof. emeritus of immunology, Director of the Center for Biophysics, Bioinformatics, Biocomplexity, University of Bologna - received the title of Honoris Causa on the 12th of March 2018. Read more
Ofer Bar-Yosef (Harvard University) Ofer Bar-Yosef - Prof. emeritus of Prehistoric Archaeology, Harvard University - received the title of Honoris Causa on the 12th of March 2018. Read more
Michèle Lamont (Harvard University) Michèle Lamont - Prof. of sociology and African/African American studies, Harvard University - received the title of Honoris Causa on the 14th of June 2017. Read more
Toyoki Kunitake (Kyushu University) Toyoki Kunitake - Prof. of Chemistry Institute of advanced study, Kyushu University - was awarded an Honoris Causa on the 4th of May 2017. Read more
Félix Goñi (University of the Basque Country) Félix María Goñi Urcelay - Prof. of Biochemistry, University of the Basque Country - was awarded an Honoris Causa on the 7th December 2016. Read more
David Julius (University of California) David Julius - Prof. of Neurosciences, University of California - was awarded an Honoris Causa on the 23rd September 2015. Read more
George Newkome (University of Akron) George R. Newkome - Prof. of Chemistry & Polymer Sciences, University of Akron - was awarded an Honoris Causa on the 8th July 2015. Read more
Eric Bauce (Université Laval) Eric Bauce - Prof. of Forest Entomology, Executive Vice-Rector for development, Université Laval - was awarded an Honoris Causa on the 4th March 2015. Read more
Thomas Steitz (University of Yale) Thomas Steitz - Prof. of Chemistry, University of Yale - was awarded an Honoris Causa on the 25th of June 2014. Read more
