Announcement of the 18th Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Humanities

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards are intended to recognize and reward excellence in research and cultural creation, especially contributions that have achieved broad impact due to their originality and significance. The name of the awards refers equally to research work that successfully enlarges the scope of knowledge – moving forward the frontiers of the known world – and the meeting and overlap of disciplinary domains. The Frontiers Awards distinguish fundamental disciplinary or supradisciplinary advances in eight categories: Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics) Biology and Biomedicine Information and Communication Technologies Climate Change and Environmental Sciences Economics, Finance and Management Humanities Social Sciences Music and Opera The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards are decided by committees made up of internationally reputed experts in their respective fields, who deliberate in complete independence relying solely on the standards and metrics of excellence proper to the subject area. Their members are appointed by the BBVA Foundation together with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the country’s premier public research organization, which proposes the committee chair and is consulted by the Foundation on the designation of remaining members. The partnership between the CSIC and the BBVA Foundation endorses the objectivity, independence and standards of excellence informing each stage of the candidate selection process. It also rests on a shared conviction of the fundamental role played by advanced scientific research and artistic creation in the opening decades of the 21st century as a force for the ongoing advancement of society. #humanities