The Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize, worth one million Swiss francs, acknowledges scientific work of high social relevance to the development of children and young people. The Jacobs Foundation attaches great importance to scientific findings from interdisciplinary research which can yield practical applications.
An expert jury that is comprised exclusively of internationally recognized scientists elects each year the recipient of the Research Prize after a multi-stage selection process.
Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, USA and Professor of Social Behavior and Development at Kings College London, United Kingdom.
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics and Sociology, Population Studies Center Research Associate at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Professor of Demography and Dean of the Faculty, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.
Professor of Biological Psychology at the Department of Biological Psychology of the VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Computer-Human Interaction Lab for Learning & Instruction, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL.
Professor Emeritus at the University College London, United Kingdom.
DIPF, Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education
Professor of Sociology, Director Jacobs Center, Zurich University.
| Professor Albert Bandura, Stanford University, USA | 2009-2014 |
| Professor Jürgen Baumert, Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin, Germany | 2015-2017 |
| Professor Monique Boekaerts, Leiden University, Netherlands | 2009-2014 |
| Professor W. Thomas Boyce, University of California, San Francisco, USA | 2012-2014 |
| Professor Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Columbia University, USA | 2009-2011 |
| Professor Kathleen Kiernan, Ph.D. Professor of Social Policy and Demography and Chair of the Departmental Research Committee at the University of York, United Kingdom | 2012-2017 |
| Professor Meinrad Paul Perrez, University of Fribourg, Switzerland | 2009-2014 |
| Professor Anne C. Petersen, University of Michigan, USA | 2009-2015 |
| Professor Rainer K. Silbereisen, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany | 2009-2014 |
| Professor William Julius Wilson, Harvard University, USA | 2009-2011 |
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