Honorary doctorates

Professor Risto Saarinen
Faculty of Theology
University of Helsinki
Finland
Theology

Professor Johannes Schilling
Institute of Church History
Kiel University
Germany
Theology

Director of Research, Professor Cécile Michel
The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
France
Philosophy

Professor Sonia Livingstone
Department of Media and Communications
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
UK
Philosophy

Professor Gonzalo Giribet
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
USA
Science

Professor Karen Vogtmann
Department of Mathematics
University of Warwick
UK
Science

University Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Lang
Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Law

Distinguished Professor of World Religions Michael D. Jackson
Divinity School, Harvard University, USA
Anthropology

Professor Dr. med. Michael A. Nauck
Medical Department I Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Medicine

Professor Dame Janet Thornton
The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), UK
Medicine

Professor Dale B. Martin
Department of Religious Studies, Yale University, USA
Theology

Professor Gilles Kepel
Paris Institute of Political Studies, France
Philosophy

Professor Sianne Ngai
Department of English, Stanford University, USA
Philosophy

Professor Amira Klip
The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada
Science

Professor Cathie R. Martin
John Innes Center, UK
Science

Senior Professor Laurence Helfer
Duke Law School, Duke University, USA
Law

Professor Eivind Smith
Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway
Law

Professor Quentin Skinner
School of History, University of London, UK
Political Science

Senior Scientist Eric Gouaux
Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Pharmaceutical science

Professor Camilla Stoltenberg
Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care
University of Bergen, Norway
Medicine

Ronald M. Kaplan
Senior Director and Distinguished Scientist at Nuance Communications and Consulting Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University 
Palo Alto, USA
Philosophy

Professor Will Kymlicka 
Department of Philosophy
Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada
Philosophy

Rector Lisa Sennerby Forsse 
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
Science

Dr. Peter Jenni 
Physics Department
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Science

Professor Asbjørn Kjønstad
Institutt for offentlig rett 
Universitetet i Oslo, Norway
Law

Professor William A. Schabas 
Department of Law Middlesex 
University of London, UK
Law

Professor Gøsta Esping-Andersen 
Departamento de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales 
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spanien
Sociology

Professor Shitij Kapur 
Institute of Psychiatry 
King´s College London, UK
Medicine

Professor Gunnar Lindahl
Department of Laboratory Medicine 
Lund University, Sweden
Medicine

Professor Eike Wolgast
Historisches Seminar,
Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Theology

Professor Peter Burke 
Emmanuel College 
University of Cambridge, UK
Philosophy

Professor Nikolas Coupland 
Cardiff Scholl of English, Communication 
University of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Philosophy

Professor Doris Jorde 
Institutt for lærerutdanning og skoleforskning 
Universitetet i Oslo, Norway
Science

Professor Lars Mathiassen 
Department of Computer Information Systems 
Georgia State University, USA
Science

Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber 
Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung, Potsdam, Germany
Science

Professor Nico P. E. Vermeulen 
Faculteit der Exacte Wetenschappen Vrije 
Universiteit Amsterdam, Holland
Pharmaceutical science

Professor Harold Steve White 
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology 
University of Utah, USA
Pharmaceutical science

Professor Bernard N. Grofman 
Department of Political Science & Center for the Study of Democracy 
University of California, Irvine, USA
Political Science

Professor Norman Sartorius 
Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes 
University of Zagreb, Kroatien
Psychology

Professor Wendy L. Havran  
Department of Immunology
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA
Medicine

Professor James Matthew Robins 
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics 
Harvard School of Public Health 
Harvard University, USA
Medicine

Professor Donald F. Steiner 
Howard Hughes Medical Institute 
University of Chicago, USA
Medicine

Professor Anne Cooke 
Department of Pathology 
University of Cambridge, UK
Veterinary science

Professor Wangari Muta Maathai
Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies
University of Nairobi, Kenya
Agricultural science

Professor Gunnar Öquist 
Institutionen för fysiologisk botanik 
Umeå universitet, Sweden
Science

Professor Carol A. Newsom  
Candler School of Theology
Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Theology

Professor Alister Cumming 
Modern Language Centre 
University of Toronto, Canada
Philosophy

Professor Patricia Crone 
School of Historical Studies 
Institute for Advanced Study 
Princeton, USA
Philosophy

Professor Ingvild Sælid Gilhus 
Institutt for arkeologi, historie, kulturvitenskap og religionsvitenskap
Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
Philosophy

Professor Jane Lubchenco
Under Secretary of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Washington D.C., USA
Science

Professor Mark A. Ratner 
Department of Chemistry 
Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Science

Professor Richard W. Olsen 
Department of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology 
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Pharmaceutical Science

Professor emeritus Frances Raday
Faculty of Law
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Law

Professor emeritus Thomas J. Scheff
Department of Sociology
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Sociology

Professor Peter Bordier Høj
The University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Science

Professor C. Ronald Kahn
Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, USA
Medicine

Professor Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale
Institute for Cancer Research
Norwegian Radium Hospital, Norway
Medicine

Professor Jayaprakash Muliyil
Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore, India
Medicine

Jens Birch Lyster (dr.theol. h.c.)
M. A. Mohamed Salih (dr.theol. h.c.)
Gustav Konrad von Schultess (dr.med. h.c.)
John W. Lynch (dr.med. h.c.)
Kirsten Sandvig (dr.med. h.c.)
Paolo Matthiae (dr.phil. h.c.)
Orvar Löfgren (dr.phil. h.c.)
Nicoletta Calzolari Zamorani (dr.phil. h.c.)
H. Jeff Kimble (dr.scient. h.c.)
Michael Clark (dr.scient. h.c.)
Professor Patricia Vertinsky (dr.scient. h.c.)
Karin Birte Svensson (dr.scient. h.c.)
Katrin Hinrichs (dr.scient. h.c.)
Magni Martens (dr.scient. h.c.)
Graham A.R. Johnston (dr.scient. h.c.)

Ingolf U. Dalferth, (dr.theol. h.c.)
Viggo Hagstrøm, (dr.jur. h.c.)
Kaarlo Tuori (dr.jur. h.c.)
Yihai Cao (dr.med. h.c.)
Benjamin Rampton (dr.phil. h.c.)
Erika Fischer-Lichte (dr.phil. h.c.)
Riccardo Giacconi (dr.scient. h.c.)
Timothy Wallington (dr.scient. h.c.)