
The Scientific Committee approved during ILS5 conference, June 2026
- Alfonso Clemente, CSIC, Granada, Spain – alfonso.clemente@eez.csic.es
- Diego Rubiales, CSIC, Cordoba, Spain – diego.rubiales@ias.csic.es
- Eric Bishop von Wettberg, University of Vermont, USA – Eric.Bishop–Von–Wettberg@uvm.edu
- Karen Cichy, Michigan State University, USA – karen.cichy@usda.gov
- Klaudija Carović–Stanko, University of Zagreb, Croatia – kcarovic@agr.hr
- Lars Kamphuis, CCDM, Australia – lars.kamphuis@curtin.edu.au
- Maria Carlota Vaz Patto, ITQB, Oeiras, Portugal – cpatto@itqb.unl.pt
- Marion Prudent, INRAE, France – marion.prudent@inrae.fr
- Millicent Smith, School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability, Australia – millicent.smith@uq.edu.au
- Nelson Nazzicari, CREA, Lodi, Italy – nelson.nazzicari@crea.gov.it
- Pei Xu, Jiliang University, China – peixu@cjlu.edu.cn
- Peter Smykal, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic – petr.smykal@upol.cz
- Pietro Iannetta, The James Hutton Institute, Scotland UK – pete.iannetta@hutton.ac.uk
- Salma Rouichi, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco – salma.rouichi@um6p.ma
- Shivali Sharma, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Germany – shivalipbg@gmail.com
- Stefano Pavan, University of Bari, Italy – stefano.pavan@uniba.it
- Sukhjiwan Kaur, La Trobe University, Australia – sukhjiwan.kaur@latrobe.edu.au
- Tom Warkentin, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada – tom. warkentin@usask.ca
The list of the members of the previous (2023-2026) Scientific Committee is available here.

