President

Jean-Paul Cadoret - Algama Foods (France)

Vice-Presidents

Sammy Boussiba - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)

Gabriel Acien - University of Almeria (Spain)

Alexandra Mosch - Individual Member / Investments & Bus. Dev. Advisor (Germany)

Honorary President

Mario Tredici - University of Florence (Italy)

Secretariat 

General Manager - Vítor Verdelho - A4F AlgaFuel, S.A. (Portugal)

Assistant Manager - Lisandra Meinerz - Individual Member (Germany / Brazil) 

Steering Board

Andrew Spicer - Algenuity Ltd. (UK)

Carlos Unamunzaga - Fitoplancton Marino S.L. (Spain)

Richard van Kranenburg - Corbion Biotech, Inc. (The Netherlands) 

Joachim Henjes - Alfred-Wegener-Institut (Germany)

John Benemann - Individual Member (USA)

Liliana Rodolfi - University of Florence / F&M, S.r.l. (Italy)

Luis Costa - A4F AlgaFuel, S.A. (Portugal)

Silvio Mangini - Archimede Ricerche S.r.l. (Italy)

The Scientific Committee

Alison Smith - Cambridge University (UK)

David Chiaramonti - RE-CORD / Renewable Energy Consortium for Research and Demonstration (Italy)

Graziella Chini Zittelli - CNR–IBE / National Research Council (Italy)

Herminia Rodriguez - IBVF / University of Sevilla and CSIC (Spain)

Jack Legrand - University of Nantes (France)

Jean-François Sassi - CEA / Commission for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies (France) 

Jiri Masojidek - Institute of Microbiology / The Czech Academy of Science (Czech Rep.)

Leen Bastiaens - VITO / Flemish Institute for Technological Research (Belgium)

Maria Barbosa - WUR / Wageningen University & Research (The Netherlands)

Michele Stanley - SAMS / Scotish Association for Marine Science (UK)

Olaf Kruse - University of Bielefeld (Germany)

Olivier Bernard - INRIA-BIOCORE / French National Institute for Computer Science and Aplied Mathematics (France)

Ulrike Schmid-Staiger - Fraunhofer-IGB / Institut für Grenzflächen- und Bioverfahrenstechnik (Germany)

The Industry Committee

Andrea Moro - Livegreen S.r.l. (Italy)

Arun Nair - AstaReal AB (Sweden)

Carlos Rodríguez-Villa Foerster - AlgaEnergy (Spain)

Edgar Santos - A4F AlgaFuel, S.A. (Portugal)

Hywel Griffiths - Fermentalg, S.A. (France)

João Navalho - Necton, S.A. (Portugal)

Joe McDonald - Varicon Aqua Solutions Ltd. (UK)

Olivier Lépine - Algosource Technologies, SAS (France)

Pedro Escudero - BuggyPower, Lda. (Portugal)

Pi Nyvall Collen - Olmix, S.A. (France)

Robert Reinhardt - AlgEn, d.o.o. (Slovenia)

Board of Auditors

Claudia Thomsen - Individual Member (Germany)

Alberto Bertucco - University of Padua (Italy) 

Board of Arbitrators

Herminia Rodriguez - IBVF / University of Sevilla and CSIC (Spain)

Patricia Harvey - Greenwich University (UK)

Robert Reinhardt - AlgEn, d.o.o. (Slovenia)