gyorgyey.janos@brc.hu

János Györgyey is the president of the Hungarian Plant Biology Society since 2006, national representative since 2012. He have got his diploma at the University of Szeged as biologist in 1985. He obtained Ph.D. at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1996 for his thesis entitled "Gene expression changes during hormone activated cell division and somatic embryogenesis in alfalfa". He began his research carrier in the same year in the Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary where he is senior researcher now and principal investigator of the research unit working on Brachypodium distachyon. His main interests are plant molecular biology, developmental genetics, and abiotic stress physiology. With his colleagues, currently they are studying root development of Brachypodium focusing on LOB-domain transcription factor family, the effects of limiting water supply on root architecture, as well as the involvement of circadian clock in drought stress adaptation in roots. His publications and citation data can be find in the Hungarian Scientific Bibliography database (https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=10002548&view=pubTable).

l.degara@unicampus.it

Relevant Scientific Professional Services:

2007-2009 Elected President of the Plant Oxygen Group of the Society for Free Radical Research – Europe

2008–2013 Member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Society of Plant Biology

2008-2010 Member of the Grants & Awards Committee of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB).

2012–2019 Member of the Executive Committee of the FESPB as Chair of the Grants & Awards Committee

2014 Member of the Plant Biology Panel for the evaluation of projects on Plant Biology in Space presented for founding by NASA, ESA, JAXA

2015-2017 President of the Evaluation Committee of the Research Centers controlled by Italian Ministry of Agriculture

2017-2021 Member of the Scientific Committee or the Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria (CREA)

2019 Elected Vice-president for the year 20-21and President for the years 22-23 of the Italian Society of Plant Biology

2019- Member of the Scientific Council of the Department of Biology, Agriculture and Food Sciences (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)

2020-Elected Secretary General of the FESPB

Scientific interests:

Redox signaling in plant, plant-environment interaction, plant resilience, bio-active molecules (fructans, polyphenols): characterization and metabolism in plants.

christian.zoerb@uni-hohenheim.de - treasurer@fespb.org

Research interests: Crop Plants, Abiotic Stress Physiology, Viticulture, Wheat, Climate Change, Quality Aspects, Plant Nutrition

h-index Jan 2021, 34

Please see list of more than 100 peer reviewed articles at Goolge Scholar.

Since 2014 – Professor of Quality of Plant Products and Viticulture, Univ. of Hohenheim
2012–2014 – Professor of General and Applied Botany, Univ. of Leipzig, Institute of Biology
2012–2013 – Senior Scientific Fellow, School of Biology, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, UK
2007–2012 – Research Associate, Univ. of Kiel, Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science
2005–2007 – Research Associate, Bundesanstalt für Ernährung und Lebensmittel, Detmold
1999–2007 – PostDoc experience in several labs including UK, USA and Germany
Habilitation, Justus Liebig Univ. Giessen, Venia legendi in Plant Nutrition
1998 – Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), Justus Liebig Univ. Giessen, Faculty of Biology
1988 – Diploma in Biology (Plant Science), Justus Liebig Univ. Giessen

i.diaz@upm.es

My research scientific carrier, currently focused in molecular, biochemical and functional aspects on the plant-pest interaction, is supported by 97 SCI articles, 20 book chapters and 2 books as editor. Index h: 38, total number of cites: 4,202 (source WOS). I have participated in 31 projects and collaborated with national and international research groups. I am “Garante” of the Severo Ochoa awarded project (SEV-2016-0672) for the CBGP-UPM-INIA for 2017-21. In parallel, I have developed teaching duties, I have participated in different research committees, I have been Gestor de Agriculture for the AEI (Agencia Estatal de Investigación) of Spanish Ministry of Science and I have collaborated as reviewer of articles and projects for public and private institutions.

Pending new appointment

gyorgyey.janos@brc.hu

János Györgyey is the president of the Hungarian Plant Biology Society since 2006, national representative since 2012. He have got his diploma at the University of Szeged as biologist in 1985. He obtained Ph.D. at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1996 for his thesis entitled "Gene expression changes during hormone activated cell division and somatic embryogenesis in alfalfa". He began his research carrier in the same year in the Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary where he is senior researcher now and principal investigator of the research unit working on Brachypodium distachyon. His main interests are plant molecular biology, developmental genetics, and abiotic stress physiology. With his colleagues, currently they are studying root development of Brachypodium focusing on LOB-domain transcription factor family, the effects of limiting water supply on root architecture, as well as the involvement of circadian clock in drought stress adaptation in roots. His publications and citation data can be find in the Hungarian Scientific Bibliography database (https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=10002548&view=pubTable).