SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

ESA President: Paola Rossi Pisa (Chairman)

• Mariusz Fotyma (ESA Past President)
• Jacques Wery (ESA President Elect)
• Marcello Donatelli (ESA General Secretary)
  
  
• Andrea Segrè (Agriculture Faculty )
  
  
• Marco Acutis
• Marco Bindi
• Pietro Catizone
• Holger Meinke
• Maria Inés Mínguez Tudela
• John Porter
• Pier Paolo Roggero (SIA President )
• Graham Russell
• Hartmut Stützel
• Francisco Villalobos

ESA: Division Chairmen

• Division 1 - Crop physiology, production and management - Sven Eric Jacobsen
• Division 2 - Agroclimatology and agronomic modelling - Marco Bindi
• Division 3 - Plant-soil relationships - Witold Grzebisz
• Division 6 - Agriculture-environment relationships - Olaf Christen

Session 1 – Agriculture to preserve environment

Chairmen:

• Olaf Christen (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
• Witold Grzebisz (University of Poznań, Poland)
• Sven Eric Jacobsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Pier Paolo Roggero (Sassary University, Italy)
• Hartmut Stützel (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)
  
  Keynote speaker:
  
  
• Markus Flury (Washington State University Pullman, USA)
• Maria Inés Mínguez Tudela (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
• Alicja Pecio (Institute of soil science and plant cultivation, Pulawy, Poland)

Session 2 – New frontiers in crop production

Chairmen:

• Giovanni Dinelli (University of Bologna, Italy)
• Melvyn Askew (Agricultural Rural Strategies, York, UK)
• Roberto Tuberosa (University of Bologna, Italy)

Keynote speaker:

• Alejandro Cifuentes (Inst. of Industrial Fermentations, Madrid, Spain)
• Merja Penttilä (VTT, Finland)
• Calliope Panoutsou (Imperial College London, UK)
• Francois Tardieu (INRA, Montpellier, France)
• Geoff Fincher (University of Adelaide, Australia)
  

Session 3 – Climate change and agriculture

Chairmen:

• Giampiero Maracchi (CNR-IBIMET, Firenze, Italy)
• Francisco Villalobos (University of Cordoba, Spain)
• John Roy Porter (KVL, Taastrup, Denmark)

Keynote speaker:

• Frank Chmielewski (Humboldt Universität, zu Berlin, Germany)
• Jorgen Olesen (University of Tjele, Denmark)
• Peter Kuikman (ALTERRA, Wageningen, The Netherlands)

Final discussion

• Marco Bindi (University of Firenze, Italy)