ESEB members are welcome to join our committees. If you are interested to join, please contact the ESEB Office Manager Ute Friedrich (office@eseb.org) at any time and Ute will forward your message to the committee chair.
Committee guidelines
- All committee and panel members must be ESEB members.
- A committee should have at least three members and, as a guide, not more than 10 members.
- Ideally, the chair of a committee should be an ESEB Council member. If this is not possible, the committee should comprise at least one ESEB Council member, who can represent the committee at ESEB Council meetings.
- Committee chairs should be appointed from among the existing committee members to facilitate continuation, except if a new committee is being established.
- The term of a committee chair and member starts/ends in August of the relevant year.
- Committee members and chairs should serve a minimum term of two years, with the standard being 4 years, and with a possible re-appointment for an additional term of two years, if required.
- All committees should request volunteers every second year during the summer Council meeting, at the time when a new cohort of council members has just joined. Committees may additionally recruit members at any other time to fill vacancies or to strengthen the diversity of a committee.
Conference Travel Award Committee
Inon Scharf, Chair, Tel Aviv University, IL
Trine Bilde, Aarhus University, DK
Rui Faria, University of Porto, PT
Visit the Conference Travel Award website.
Election Committee 2025–2026
Trine Bilde, Chair, Aarhus University, DK
Hannah Dugdale, University of Groningen, NL
Inon Scharf, Tel Aviv University, IL
Visit the Election Committee website.
Environmental Impact Panel
Tom Tregenza, Chair, University of Exeter, UK
Luisa Diele-Viegas, University of Mississippi, US
Dieter Ebert, University of Basel, CH
Claudia Fricke, University of Halle, DE
Myranda Murray, NTNU, NO
Rita Ponce, ICNova, PT
Ophélie Ronce, Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution, FR
Sakshi Sharda, University of Lausanne, CH
Aurélien Tellier, Technical University of Munich, DE
Tom Van Dooren, iEES Paris, University of Sorbonne, FR
Anja Westram, Institute of Science and Technology, AU
Visit the Environmental Impact Committee website.
Equal Opportunities Initiative Committee
Anne Charmantier, Co-Chair, CEFE, CNRS, FR
Kelley Leung, Co-Chair, University of Groningen, NL
Camila Beraldo, University of Helsinki, FI
Trine Bilde, Aarhus University, DK
Noah Hensen, University of Stockholm, SE
Michael Jennions, Australian National University, AU
Öncü Marachi, University of Bielefeld, DE
Harihar Jaishree Subrahmaniam, Aarhus University, DK
Visit the Equal Opportunities Initiative website.
Global Evolutionary Biology Initiative Committee
Nina Sletvold, Co-chair, Uppsala University, SE
N.N., Co-Chair
Leonardo Bacigalupe, Universidad Austral, CL
Tadeusz Kawecki, University of Lausanne, CH
Simone Immler, University of East Anglia, UK
Yannis Michalakis, IRD CNRS, FR
Mehmet Somel, Middle East Technical University, TR
Elio Sucena, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência/University of Lisbon, PT
Visit the Global Evolutionary Biology Initiative website.
Godfrey Hewitt Mobility Award Committee
Andrea Betancourt, Chair, University of Liverpool, UK
Richard Nichols, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Inês Fragata, University of Lisbon, PT
Visit the Godfrey Hewitt Mobility Award website.
John Maynard Smith Prize Committee
Deepa Agashe, Chair, NCBS, IN
more members to be announced soon
Visit the John Maynard Smith Prize website.
Outreach Initiative Funds Committee
Florence Débarre, Chair, iEES-Paris, FR
Trine Bilde, Aarhus University, DK
Hannah Dugdale, University of Groningen, NL
Andy Gardner, University of St Andrews, UK
Efe Sezgin, İzmir İnstitute of Technology, TR
Visit the Outreach Initiative website.
Policy Committee
Jon Bridle, Chair, University College London, UK
John Pannell, University of Lausanne, CH
more members TBA
Visit the Policy Committee website
Special Topic Networks Initiative Committee
Yuval Sapir, Tel-Aviv University, IL
Luis-Miguel Chevin, CNRS, FR
Troy Day, Queen’s University, CA
Simone Immler, University of East Anglia, UK
Visit the Special Topic Networks Initiative website.
Stearns Graduate Student Prize Panel
Max Reuter, Chair, University College London, UK
and a panel of Editors of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
Visit the Stearns Prize website.
Evolution Letters Oversight Committee
Inter-Society Committee
Rhonda Snook (ESEB) (Chair)
Tracey Chapman (ESEB)
Andrew McAdam (SSE)
Amber Rice (SSE)
Thomas Flatt (Member-appointed)