Ranking of researchers and scientists whose work drives scientific progress and innovation.
This list combines scientific impact, public visibility and presence in major research institutions across all fields: physics, biology, AI, medicine, climate, social sciences and more.
| Rank | Name | Headline | Company | Country | City | Speciality Tags | Influence Note | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Demis Hassabis | CEO & Co-Founder | DeepMind | GBR | London | AI structurale, AlphaFold, RL | Breakthrough Prize 2025 | View profile |
| 2 | John Jumper | Director – AlphaFold3 Lead | DeepMind | USA | London | AlphaFold3, Structural Biology | Breakthrough Prize 2025 | View profile |
| 3 | Yann LeCun | Chief AI Scientist | Meta FAIR | FRA | New York | Vision-IA, Self-Supervised Learning | IEEE Medal 2025 | View profile |
| 4 | Geoffrey Hinton | Emeritus Professor | University of Toronto | CAN | Toronto | Deep Learning, Neural Nets | Turing 2018 → top-cité 2025 | View profile |
| 5 | Yoshua Bengio | Professor & Scientific Director | MILA | CAN | Montréal | GFlow-nets, Generative Modeling | top-cité 2025 | View profile |
| 6 | Andrew Ng | Founder & CEO | Stanford HAI | USA | Palo Alto | AI-fondation, ML Education | Davos 2025 | View profile |
| 7 | Fei-Fei Li | Professor & Co-Director | Stanford | USA | Palo Alto | Vision-IA, éthique AI | ImageNet-3D 2025 | View profile |
| 8 | Andrej Karpathy | Senior Director AI | Microsoft | SVK | Redmond | LLM-compiler, Computer Vision | 9 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 9 | Ilya Sutskever | Co-Founder & Chief Scientist | Safe Superintelligence Inc. | ISR | Palo Alto | Safe-superintelligence, GPT | Safe-AGI 2025 | View profile |
| 10 | Alex Smola | Director – ML Systems | AWS | AUT | Seattle | Scalable-ML, Distributed Training | AWS-ML 2025 | View profile |
| 11 | Ian Goodfellow | Director ML Research | Apple | USA | Cupertino | GANs-v5, Adversarial Training | GANs 2025 | View profile |
| 12 | Rana el Kaliouby | Deputy CEO | Affectiva | EGY | Boston | Emotion-AI, Ethics | Emotion-AI 2025 | View profile |
| 13 | Daphne Koller | CEO & Co-Founder | insitro | USA | South San Francisco | AI-médicament, ML for Drug Discovery | drug-AI 2025 | View profile |
| 14 | Jennifer Doudna | Professor & Nobel Laureate | UC Berkeley | USA | Berkeley | CRISPR-prime-3, Gene Editing | 12 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 15 | Emmanuelle Charpentier | Director & Nobel Laureate | Max-Planck Institute | FRA | Berlin | CRISPR-Cas-Prime, Microbiology | Nobel 2020 → top 2025 | View profile |
| 16 | Feng Zhang | Core Member & Professor | Broad Institute | USA | Cambridge | CRISPR-brain, Neuro-Editing | 11 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 17 | David Liu | Professor & Merkin Institute Director | Broad Institute | USA | Cambridge | Prime-editing-3, Base Editing | base-editing 2025 | View profile |
| 18 | Drew Weissman | Professor & Nobel Laureate | University of Pennsylvania | USA | Philadelphia | mRNA-2025, Vaccinology | Nobel 2023 → top 2025 | View profile |
| 19 | Katalin Karikó | SVP & Nobel Laureate | BioNTech | HUN | Mainz | mRNA-stability, Vaccine Platform | Nobel 2023 → top 2025 | View profile |
| 20 | Carl June | Professor & CAR-T Pioneer | University of Pennsylvania | USA | Philadelphia | CAR-T-next, Immunotherapy | 8 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 21 | Michel Sadelain | Professor & Cellular Engineer | MSKCC | FRA | New York | CAR-T-armored, Cell Therapy | 7 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 22 | Ugur Sahin | CEO & Co-Founder | BioNTech | DEU | Mainz | mRNA-cancer-vac, Onco-Immunology | 10 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 23 | Özlem Türeci | CMO & Co-Founder | BioNTech | DEU | Mainz | mRNA-cancer-vac, Translational Oncology | 9 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 24 | Robert Langer | Institute Professor & Serial Inventor | MIT | USA | Cambridge | Drug-delivery-2025, Biomaterials | 15 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 25 | Martin Green | Professor & Solar Pioneer | UNSW | AUS | Sydney | Silicon-solar-record, PV Efficiency | 11 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 26 | Yang Yang | Professor & OPV Pioneer | UCLA | USA | Los Angeles | OPV-efficiency, Organic Photovoltaics | 10 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 27 | Michael Grätzel | Professor & DSSC Inventor | EPFL | CHE | Lausanne | DSSC-3rd-gen, Photovoltaics | 9 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 28 | Klaus Müller | Professor & Perovskite Lead | EPFL | CHE | Lausanne | Perovskite-2025, Thin Films | 8 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 29 | Gerhard Fettweis | Vodafone Chair Professor | TU Dresden | DEU | Dresden | 6G-Terahertz, Wireless Systems | 9 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 30 | Theodore Rappaport | Professor & Wireless Founder | NYU Wireless | USA | New York | mmWave-6G, Propagation | 8 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 31 | Mérouane Debbah | Chief Researcher | TII | FRA | Abu Dhabi | AI-native-6G, Random Matrix Theory | 7 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 32 | John Bowers | Professor & Photonics Director | UCSB | USA | Santa Barbara | Silicon-nitride-photonics, Integration | 6 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 33 | Michal Lipson | Professor & Photonics Pioneer | Columbia | USA | New York | Silicon-photonics, Nanophotonics | 6 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 34 | Kinam Kim | President & CTO Memory | Samsung | KOR | Seoul | 3D-NAND-300L, Flash Memory | 10 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 35 | Siva Sivaram | President Technology | Western Digital | USA | San Jose | 3D-NAND-300L, Storage | 8 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 36 | Kaizad Mistry | Co-CTO Intel-18A | Intel | USA | Hillsboro | Intel-18A-node, Process Integration | 9 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 37 | An Steegen | Executive VP Process | imec | BEL | Leuven | N2-node-BEOL, Nano-Interconnects | 7 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 38 | Alex Lidow | CEO & Co-Founder | Efficient Power Conversion | USA | El Segundo | GaN-systems-2025, Power Electronics | 6 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 39 | Brice Lechatelier | VP GaN Solutions | Soitec | FRA | Bernin | PowerGaN-2025, Substrates | 4 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 40 | Shuji Nakamura | Professor & Nobel Laureate | UCSB | JPN | Santa Barbara | UV-C-LED-2025, Solid-State Lighting | 8 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 41 | Hiroshi Amano | Professor & Nobel Laureate | Nagoya University | JPN | Nagoya | UV-C-LED-2025, GaN Devices | 7 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 42 | Mario Krenn | Group Leader | Max Planck Institute | AUT | Erlangen | AI-discovered-physics, Quantum ML | 5 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 43 | Giuseppe Carleo | Professor & Neural-QC Lead | EPFL | CHE | Lausanne | Neural-quantum, Many-Body Physics | 4 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 44 | Nathan Killoran | Head of Quantum ML | Xanadu | CAN | Toronto | Quantum-Pennylane, Photonic QC | 6 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 45 | Juan Felipe Carrasquilla | Research Faculty | Vector Institute | COL | Toronto | Quantum-tensorflow, Many-Body ML | 4 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 46 | Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Professor & Chemistry Lead | University of Toronto | MEX | Toronto | Quantum-chemistry, Autonomous Labs | 7 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 47 | Stefano Ermon | Associate Professor | Stanford | ITA | Palo Alto | Generative-energy, Sustainability | 5 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 48 | Yisong Yue | Professor & Neural-Physics Lead | Caltech | USA | Pasadena | Neural-physics, Dynamical Systems | 4 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 49 | Jiajun Wu | Assistant Professor | Stanford | CHN | Palo Alto | 3D-scene-generation, Vision & Graphics | 6 brevets 2025 | View profile |
| 50 | Yuke Zhu | Assistant Professor | UT Austin | CHN | Austin | Embodied-AI, Robotics | 5 brevets 2025 | View profile |