Reinhard Genzel (Nobel Laureate, 2020, for the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole)
Brian Schmidt (Nobel Laureate, 2011, for the discovery of cosmic acceleration)
Shri Kulkarni (2024 Shaw Prize winner in Astronomy for ground breaking discoveries in time domain astronomy).
Matthew Bailes (2024 Shaw Prize winner in Astronomy for discovery of fast radio bursts)
Max Pettini (2025 Gruber cosmology prize, for fundamental work on the universe’s Deuterium abundance and Baryon density)