Committees

Conference Chairs

© Andreas Krone

  • Frank A. Ewert

  • Scientific Director of Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany
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© Thünen-Institut
Nadine Zirbes

  • Birgit Kleinschmit

  • President of the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Germany
    German Federal Institute for Rural Studies, Forestry and Fisheries (TI)

© Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI) Isabel Haberkorn

  • Frank Ordon

  • President of the Julius Kühn Institute, Germany
    German Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI)

Scientific Committee

Chair of Scientific Committee

  • Johannes Isselstein
  • University of Goettingen, Germany
    Head of the Institute of Grassland Science
  • Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath-Kimura

  • Co-Head of Research Area ‘Land Use and Governance’ at Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany

    Professor of Land Use Systems at Humboldt University zu Berlin, Germany

  • Joana Bergmann

  • Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany
    Head of working group ‘Sustainable Grassland Systems’

  • Michelle Chevelev-Bonatti

  • Deputy head of working group ‘Sustainable Land Use in Developing Countries’ at Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany

    Associate Professor at Universidade de Vila Velha, Brazil

  • Chabi Djagoun

  • University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin

    Associate Professor at Laboratory of Applied Ecology

  • Jørgen Eriksen

  • Aarhus University, Department of Agroecology, Denmark

    Professor and Head of Section Agroecology – Soil Fertility

  • Friederike Fenger

  • Thünen Institute (TI), Germany

  • Alessandra Fidelis

  • Universidade Estadual Paulista, Instituto de Biociências, Brazil

    Assistant Professor at Department of Botany

  • Piotr Goliński

  • Poznań University of Life Sciences (PULS), Poland

    Professor and Head of Department of Grassland and Natural Landscape Sciences

  • Harald Grethe

  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

    Professor and Head of Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences

  • Deirdre Hennessy

  • University College Cork

    Professor at School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ireland

  • Dana Kelly

  • University of Southern Queensland

    Adjunct Professor at Centre for Applied Climate Sciences (Operations), Australia

  • Warren King

  • Ruakura Research Centre, New Zealand

  • Katrin Kuka

  • Julius Kühn Institute (JKI), Germany

    Grassland Unit and Institute for Plant Production and Soil Science

  • Harald Laser

  • South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences, Germany

    Professor of Crop Production, Grassland, and Renewable Raw Materials

  • Andreas Lüscher

  • Agroscope, Switzerland

    Head of research group ‘Forage production and grassland systems’

    Professor at the Department of Environmental Systems Science of ETH Zurich

  • Jürgen Pickert

  • Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany

  • Frances Siebert

  • North-West University, South Africa

    Associate Professor in the Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management

  • Karl-Heinz Südekum

  • University of Bonn, Germany

    Professor and Head of Institute for Animal Sciences

  • Jan Thiele

  • Thünen Institute (TI), Germany

    Institute for Biodiversity

  • Edzard van Santen

  • Auburn University, Alabama, USA

    Professor in the Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences

  • Ingrid Vervuert

  • Leipzig University, Germany

    Professor of Animal Nutrition and Nutritional Diseases

  • Michael Wachendorf

  • University of Kassel, Germany

    Professor and Head of Section Grassland Science and Renewable Plant Resources

  • Mirja Wilkens

  • Leipzig University, Germany

    Professor for Animal Nutrition and Nutritional Diseases

  • Nicole Wrage-Mönnig

  • University of Rostock, Germany

    Professor, Chair of Grassland and Fodder Sciences

  • Gaowen Yang

  • China Agricultural University, China

    Professor in the College of Grassland Science and Technology

Organizing Committee

Chair of Organizing Committee

  • Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath-Kimura

  • Co-Head of Research Area ‘Land Use and Governance’ at Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany

    Professor of Land Use Systems at Humboldt University zu Berlin, Germany

  • Joana Bergmann

  • Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany

    Head of working group ‘Sustainable Grassland Systems’

  • Lisa Brandt

  • Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany

  • Stephan Hartmann

  • Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, Germany

  • Detlef Kampf

  • DLG – German Agricultural Society, Germany

  • Julie Klötzli

  • Berner Fachhochschule, School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (HAFL), Switzerland

  • Arno Krause

  • CEO of Grassland Center Lower Saxony/Bremen, Germany

  • Katrin Kuka

  • Julius Kühn Institute (JKI), Germany

    Grassland Unit and Institute for Plant Production and Soil Science

  • Stefan Lange

  • Thünen Institute (TI), Germany

    Research Coordinator

  • Jürgen Pickert

  • Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany

  • Erich M. Pötsch

  • Austrian Working Group for Grassland and Livestock Farming (ÖAG), Austria

  • Gerhard Riehl

  • Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture, and Geology, Germany

    Grassland and Grazing group

  • Inga Schleip

  • Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany

    Professor for Sustainable Grassland Utilisation Systems and Grassland Ecology

  • Manuel Schneider

  • Agroscope, Switzerland

    Research group ‘Forage production and grassland systems’

    Director at ‘Working group for the Support of Fodder Production’ (AGFF)

  • Heike Schobert

  • Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany

  • Corinna Schulz

  • Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany

  • Sabrina Weinert

  • Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany

  • Mirja Wilkens

  • Leipzig University, Germany

    Professor for Animal Nutrition and Nutritional Diseases

  • Nicole Wrage-Mönnig

  • University of Rostock, Germany

    Professor, Chair of Grassland and Fodder Sciences