European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB)

The annu­al EMPSEB is sup­por­ted by ESEB to provide a plat­form for PhD stu­dents study­ing Evol­u­tion­ary Bio­logy to present their work and to meet their peers from all over Europe. The meet­ing is held at a dif­fer­ent European city each year and is inde­pend­ently organ­ized by cur­rent PhD stu­dents in this country.

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The 31st European Meet­ing for PhD Stu­dents in Evol­u­tion­ary Bio­logy (EMPSEB) took place in Ober­wiesenth­al, Ger­many, from 8 to 12 June 2026.

The next EMPSEB meet­ing will take place in Slov­e­nia in 2027. More inform­a­tion will fol­low soon.

Past EMPSEB meetings

  1. 2025 – Milovy, CZ
  2. 2024 – Puchberg am Schnee­berg, AT
  3. 2023 – Great Cum­brae, UK
  4. 2022 – Espoo, FI
  5. 2021 – vir­tu­al meet­ing, IE
  6. 2020 – post­poned to 2021
  7. 2019 – Pedrógão Pequeno, PT
  8. 2018 – Bubión, Granada, ES
  9. 2017 – Krasiczyn, PL
  10. 2016 – Visby, SE
  11. 2015 – Stirl­ing, UK
  12. 2014 – La Roche-en-Ardenne, BE
  13. 2013 – Exeter, UK
  14. 2012 – Vir­rat, FI
  15. 2011 – Seia, PT
  16. 2010 – Wierzba, PL
  17. 2009 – Schoo­rl, NL
  18. 2008 – Ein­siedeln, CH
  19. 2007 – Lund, SE
  20. 2006 – St Andrews, UK
  21. 2005 – Bor­deaux, FR
  22. 2004 – Shrews­bury, UK
  23. 2003 – Fiesch, CH
  24. 2002 – Lohja, FI
  25. 2001 – Bernried, DE
  26. 2000 – Vaal­beek, BE
  27. 1999 – Umeå, SE
  28. 1998 – Herak­lion, GR
  29. 1997 – Bar­celona, ES
  30. 1996 – Ams­ter­dam, NL
  31. 1995 – Zurich, CH