is professor of forest genetics and tree breeding since 1991 and the Head of the Deaprtment of Phytology at the Technická univerzita vo Zvolene (TUZVO). Main research activity has been focused at the population and evolutionary genetics, gene flow and mating system in tree populations. He has participated in the EU projects Fraxigen as coordinator of the Slovak team, Fossilva and Treebreedex. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Forest Genetics.

is Regional Director for Europe since 2000, and responsible for development and implementation of strategies for programme delivery in the area of plant genetic resources in Europe. Previously he was the Coordinator of the European Forest Genetic Resources Programme (EUFORGEN) for eight years. He has background in forest genetics, and he holds a PhD from Georg- August-University of Göttingen in Germany. He is also member of editorial board of the International Forestry Review.

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studied forest science. He is Director of the Institute and has a 12 year experience in forest genetics with focus on population genetic, modelling and data analysis in temperate and tropical forest. He has also a long experience as head of molecular lab in the tropical South-America. He participated and partly co-ordinated 10 international research projects. He is the author of more than 25 reviewed publications in scientific journals. He is currently the National coordinator of Germany for EUFORGEN. He is Editor in Chief of the international journal Silvae Genetica.

is Professor of Genetics with particular expertise in plant genomics and molecular population genetics and Scientific Director of the newly founded Institute of Applied Genomics (IGA). His research group has been instrumental in establishing a number of genetic technology platforms that are now being widely deployed in plant genomic research. Over 60 publications on plant genetics in journals such as Nature Genetics, Nature Reviews Genetics, PNAS, Plant Cell, Genetics with high impact in the field (over 2600 citations reported by the ISI Web of Science).