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2026 Kavli Prize
Committees
Kavli Prize Committee Appointments
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters appoints three Kavli Prize Committees on the basis of nominations received by leading international academies and other equivalent scientific organizations. Nominations for the committees were provided by:
The Kavli Prize in Astrophysics
- Per Barth Lilje (chair), University of Oslo, Norway
- Beatriz Barbuy, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil (new)
- Martha Haynes, Cornell University, USA
- Thomas Henning, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy,
- Germany Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge, UK (new)
The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
- Mari-Ann Einarsrud (chair), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Lifeng Chi, Soochow University, China (new)
- Daniel Esteve, CEA, France
- Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University, USA (new)
- Tanja Weil, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
- Edvard Moser (chair), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Peter Dayan, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany (new)
- Mary E. Hatten, Rockefeller University, USA
- Christine Petit, Institut Pasteur, France
- Carla Shatz, Stanford University, USA (new)