14th edition Frontiers of Knowledge Awards

This publication presents the winners in the 12th edition of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards, honoring fundamental disciplinary or interdisciplinary advances across a broad expanse of the knowledge map of the 21st century, as represented by their eight categories:

• Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics)
• Biology and Biomedicine
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Ecology and Conservation Biology
• Climate Change
• Economics, Finance and Management
• Humanities and Social Sciences
• Music and Opera

The Frontiers of Knowledge Awards recognize and reward world-class research and artistic creation, prizing contributions of singular impact for their originality and significance. The name of the scheme is intended to denote not only research work that substantially enlarges the scope of our current knowledge – pushing forward the frontiers of the known world – but also the meeting and overlap of different disciplinary areas and the emergence of new fields.

In Humanities and Social Sciences, the award alternates annually between these two disciplinary domains, with the 14th edition devoted to the Social Sciences.