In the Music and Opera category

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Thomas Adès for his original reinterpretation of the Western musical tradition in a genre-spanning catalogue, and his ability to connect deeply with diverse audiences

In the Humanities and Social Sciences category

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Steven Pinker and Peter Singer for innovative academic contributions in the domains of rationality and moral progress that have achieved a widespread impact in the public sphere

In the Economics, Finance and Management category

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Timothy Besley, Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini for transforming political economy into a modern, empirical, interdisciplinary science

In the Basic Sciences category

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Anne L’Huillier, Paul Corkum and Ferenc Krausz for enabling subatomic particles to be observed in motion over the shortest time scale captured by science

In the Information and Communication Technologies category

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli for transforming chip design from a handcrafted process to the automated industry that powers today’s electronic devices

In the Ecology and Conservation Biology category

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Susan Alberts, Jeanne Altmann and Marlene Zuk for establishing the key role of social behavior in animal evolution and its importance for species conservation

In the Biology and Biomedicine category

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for revolutionizing the study and design of proteins with artificial intelligence, and using this technology to power the development of new therapies

In the Climate Change category

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to James Zachos and Ellen Thomas for identifying a “greenhouse effect” 56 million years ago that serves to predict the destructive impacts of today’s human-induced global warming

Open to the public in the MULTIVERSO space, in Madrid, from 2 June to 30 December

The BBVA Foundation premieres Out of Control. Reports on the Atomic Bomb, a work by video artist Beatriz Caravaggio

Resolution of the 2022 call

Joan Rodés-Josep Baselga Advanced Research Contracts awarded by the BBVA Foundation and Hospital Clínic de Barcelona

Ceremony and lecture of the 4th edition of the BBVA Foundation award

Elizabeth Kolbert, winner of the Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication, warns of the challenges facing a planet transformed by humankind in the ‘age of the Anthropocene’

The BBVA Foundation offers access to its publications through a new digital catalogue

International directors’ forum organized by the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales and the BBVA Foundation

Natural history museums aim to digitally unify their collections into a vast global knowledge base about the environmental crisis