The IAVS 2026 symposium is organized by the Vegetation & Biodiversity Lab, a research group of the University of Oviedo associated with the Biodiversity Research Institute (IMIB-CSIC), and the Atlantic Botanic Garden of Gijón.
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chair
Deputy Chair
Commitee
Pedro Álvarez Álvarez
Jose Manuel Álvarez Martínez
Ángel Argüelles Longo
Luis Carlón
Clara Espinosa del Alba
Víctor González García
Jorge González Le Barbier
Adrián Lázaro Lobo
José Valentín Roces Díaz
Giacomo Trotta
Alicia Valdés
Additional excursion guides
Tomás Emilio Díaz González
Eduardo Fernández Pascual
Javier Loidi
Chair
Deputy Chair
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Pedro Álvarez Álvarez
Jose Manuel Álvarez Martínez
Ángel Argüelles Longo
Luis Carlón
Clara Espinosa del Alba
Eduardo Fernández Pascual
Víctor González García
Jorge González Le Barbier
Gonzalo Hernández
Adrián Lázaro Lobo
José Valentín Roces Diaz
Giacomo Trotta
Alicia Valdés
EXTERNAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Gianmaria Bonari (University of Siena, Italy)
Alessandro Bricca (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Jorge Capello (Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal)
Stefano Chelli (University of Camerino, Italy)
Alessandro Chiarucci (University of Bologna, Italy)
Frederick Curtis Lubbe (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
Jürgen Dengler (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)
Johanne Gresse (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Jitka Klimešova (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
Anna Kuzemko (MG Kholodny Institute of Botany, Ukraine)
Aleš Lisner (University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic)
Corrado Marcenò (University of Perugia, Italy)
Robert K. Peet (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. USA)
Josep Padullés-Cubino (Botanical Institute of Barcelona (IBB), Spain)
Francesco Petruzzellis (University of Padova, Italy)
Giacomo Puglielli (University of Trieste, Italy)
Enrico Tordoni (University of Bologna, Italy)
Gabriela Santos da Silva (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
Sandra Saura Mas (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB, CREAF)
Denys Vynokurov (University of Halle, Germany)
IAVS Advisory Committee
Susan Wiser (New Zealand) – IAVS President
David Zelený (Taiwan) – IAVS Secretary
Irena Axmanová (Czech Republic) – IAVS Vice President
Martin Diekmann (Germany) – IAVS Vice President
Peter Minchin (USA) – IAVS Vice President
Teresa Cunha – IAVS Administrator
