EPCN Committee

EPCN Steering Committee (2025-2027)

Voted in by online vote 14th August 2025 as part of the General Assembly. 

Full steering group members:

  • Zsófia HORVÁTH – President – (HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, HU)
  • Marlene PÄTZIG – Vice-President – (DE)
  • Rob BRIERS – Treasurer – (Edinburgh Napier, GB)
  • Fee Nanett TRAU – Secretary – (Julius Kühn-Institut, DE)
  • Wenfei LIAO – Website manager – (University of Helsinki, FI)
  • Márton UHRIN – Social media officer – (HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, HU)
  • Olivera STAMENKOVIĆ – Membership activities officer – (University of Niš, RS)
  • Lena FEHLINGER – Online seminar coordinator – (University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia, ES)
  • Valentina DELLA BELLA – NCP Coordinator – (IT)

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EPCN Steering Committee (2021-2024)

Voted in by online vote 29th March 2021 as part of the General Assembly; the AGM was delayed by one year due to COVID-19. 

Full steering group members:

  • Sandro LANFRANCO – President – (University of Malta, MT)
  • Helen GREAVES – Secretary – (University College London, GB)
  • Marlene PÄTZIG – Treasurer – (DE)
  • Pascale NICOLET (Freshwater Habitats Trust, GB)
  • Natalia KUCZYNSKA-KIPPEN (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, PL)
  • Raquel ORTELLS (University of Valencia, SP)
  • Carl SAYER (University College London, GB)
  • Zsófia HORVÁTH (WasserCluster Lunz, AT)
  • Margarida CRISTO
  • Rob BRIERS (Edinburgh Napier, GB)

Observers:

  • Dani BOIX (University of Girona, SP)
  • Carla PINTO-CRUZ (University Evora, PT)
  • Simonetta BAGELLA
  • Jeremy BIGGS (Freshwater Habitats Trust, GB)
  • Matthew James HILL (University of Huddersfield, UK)
  • David CUNILLERA MONTCUSÍ
  • Jose TEIXEIRA (CIIMAR, Porto, PT)
  • Gordon COPP (CEFAS-LOWESTOFT, GB)
  • Lucia CABRERA
  • Benedikt SCHMIDT / Dunja LUKIĆ – both with 16 votes

Students:

  • Mohamed BEN BAMMOU
  • Jael PALHAS
  • Andrea Francesca Bellia

 

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EPCN steering committee (2018-2019)

Elected or renewed at the General Assembly of 2018

  • Sandro LANFRANCO – President – (University of Malta, MT)
  • Helen GREAVES – Secretary – (University College London, GB)
  • Marlene PÄTZIG – Treasurer – (Center for Agricultural Landscape Research, DE)
  • Pascale NICOLET (Freshwater Habitats Trust, GB)
  • Thomas KALETTKA (Center for Agricultural Landscape Research, DE)
  • Natalia KUCZYNSKA-KIPPEN (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, PL)
  • Raquel ORTELLS (University of Valencia, SP)
  • Carl SAYER (University College London, GB)
  • Zsófia HORVÁTH (WasserCluster Lunz, AT)
  • Margarida CRISTO

Observers

  • Gordon COPP (CEFAS-LOWESTOFT, GB)
  • Ladislav HAMERLIK (Matthias Belius University, SK)
  • Carla PINTO-CRUZ (University Evora, PT)
  • Benedikt SCHMIDT (KARCH, CH)
  • Jose TEIXEIRA (CIIMAR, Porto, PT)
  • Matthew HILL (University of Huddersfield, UK)
  • Dani BOIX (University of Girona, SP)
  • Jeremy BIGGS (Freshwater Habitats Trust, GB)
  • Laura SERRANO (University of Sevilla, SP)
  • Simonetta BAGELLA
  • Wlodzimierz GOLUS (University of Gdańsk, PL)

Students

  • Linsey HARPER
  • Jonathan LEWIS-PHILLIPS
  • Dunja LUKIĆ
  • David CUNILLERA MONTCUSÍ