Pre-selection committee - the Netherlands
| Prof. J.W. Verhoeven | Emeritus Professor, University of Amsterdam and member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Prof. W.P.M. van Swaaij | Professor, University of Twente and member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Prof. R. Coehoorn | Research Fellow, Philips Research Laboratories and part-time professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology at the Molecular Materials and Nanosystems group and member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Prof. D.N. Reinhoudt | Emeritus Professor, University of Twente, member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and chairman of NanoNed |
| Prof. R. Bovenberg | Corporate Scientist Metabolic Engineering & Screening, DSM and honorary professor Synthetic Biology and Cell Engineering, University of Groningen |
| Dr M. Wubbolts | R&D Director DSM Innovation Center |
Pre-selection committee - Belgium
| Dr. M. Janssen | Former Vice President of Discovery Research, Janssen Research Foundation |
| Prof. F.C. De Schryver | Emeritus Professor, Catholic University of Leuven |
| Prof. R. Jérôme | Full Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Liège |
| Prof. J. Fastrez | Emeritus Professor, Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve |
| Dr S. de Wildeman | Scientist Biocatalysis and Biomaterials, DSM |
| Dr K.J.G. Janssen | Director Shared Research Unit Performance Materials, DSM |
Pre-selection committee - Northern Germany
| Prof. K. Schulte | Professor of Polymers and Composite Materials, Hamburg University of Technology |
| Prof. A. Steinbüchel | Professor of Microbiology, Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster |
| Prof. E. Flaschel | Professor of Fermentation Engineering, Bielefeld University |
| Prof. C. Bolm | Professor of Organic Chemistry, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen |
| Dr J. Thies | RT&D manager Drug Delivery, DSM Biomedical |
| Dr O. May | Corporate Scientist Biocatalysis, DSM |
