- Eberhard Schnepf (Heidelberg University), 1984
- Federico Mayor (Autonomous University of Madrid), 1994
- Niki Goulandri (Goulandri Museum of Natural History), 2001
- Ioannis Papakonstantinou (Texas University, Medical Branch, Galveston), 2001
- Konstantinos Kribas (Academy of Athens), 2003
- Daniel Pauly (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), 2005
- Kevin J. Gaston (University of Exeter), 2017
- Nikolaos Kyrpides (US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute), 2017