Hypatia Prize#
The Barcelona Hypatia European Science Prize is awarded by the Barcelona City Council
in collaboration with the Academia Europaea–Barcelona Knowledge Hub. The Hypatia Prize was created in 2018 as one of the measures in the first Barcelona Science Plan. Its goal is to give visibility to excellence in research in Europe and provide a boost for Barcelona as a European Capital of Science and Knowledge.
This year, the 6th Hypatia European Science Prize is awarded to Philippe Aghion MAE, currently professor at the Collège de France, the London School of Economics and INSEAD. Philippe Aghion is an authority in the areas of the economics of innovation and growth. He is co-designer, together with Peter Howitt, of the Schumpeterian growth paradigm, which develops the concept of creative destruction, that is, the way in which technologies and ideas replace old ones, generating advances but also disruptions.
Philippe Aghion is the author of fundamental works such as Endogenous Growth Theory (1998), Competition and Growth (2006) and The Power of Creative Destruction (2021) and has an extensive academic output in the main international journals, with more than 136,000 citations, which show his global impact.
Throughout his career, and in addition to the recent Nobel Prize in Economics, Aghion has received awards in the category of the Yrjö Jahnsson Prize (2001), the John von Neumann Prize (2009), the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2020), the Erasmus Medal (2022) and the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize (2022).
Philippe Aghion was elected as member of the Economics, Business and Management Sciences Section of Academia Europaea in 2016.
Jury members#
The Deputy Mayor’s Office by Mayoral Decrees, Jordi Valls Riera, resolves to appoint the following people as members of the jury of the sixth edition of the Barcelona Hypatia Science European Prize: Jaume Bertranpetit MAE, as its President, Ada Ferrer, Martin Kahanec MAE, Amèlia Polonia MAE and Mònica Rius.
Past awardees#
- 2018 First edition (Science and Technology): Mathematician László Lovász
- 2019 - 2020 Second edition (Life and Health Sciences): Virologist Ilaria Capua
- 2021 Third edition (Humanities and Social Sciences): Philosopher of science Nancy Cartwright
- 2023 Fourth edition (Science and Technology): International expert in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Nuria Oliver
- 2025 Fifth editions (Humanities and Social Sciences): Biologist and geneticist Svante Pääbo
