Prof. Miroslav Strnad
Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Prize of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic in the category of scientific workers - laureate 2004
2012 – 2014 – vice-president of the European Phytochemical Society (PSE), in 2014 – 2016 – president of PSE, researcher and co-researcher of several important European projects and member of the European Research Council

Prof. Didem Şohretoğlu
Hacetteppe University, Ankara, Turkey

Didem Sohretoglu studied Pharmacy, at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. She received her Master of Science degree in Pharmacognosy, Hacettepe University and her PhD degree in a sandwich program between Hacettepe University, Turkey and Lund University, Sweden. She worked as a post-doc in the Department of Organic Chemistry, Lund University, Sweden for a short term. She was a visiting associate professor at the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department in Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA, USA for one year. Presently, she works as a full professor in Department of Pharmacognosy, Hacettepe University, Ankara (Turkey). She is also vice manager of Hacettepe University Graduate School of Health Sciences. Her research interests focus on the isolation, structure elucidation of potentially active plant metabolites, investigation of anticancer (apoptosis, cell cycle and mTOR pathway), enzyme inhibitory (topoisomerases, β-glucosidase, tyrosinase) activities natural products and predicting binding positions by using molecular docking studies. She won the Scientific Encouragement Award of Turkish Pharmacists Association TEB in 2018. She is a member of Turkish Pharmacopeia Pharmacognosy Committee.

She is in the editorial board of Phytochemical Analysis, Frontiers in Pharmacology and Hacettepe University Journal of Faculty of Pharmacy.

Prof. Simon Gibbons
Center for Natural Products Discovery at Liverpool John Moores University
In 2022 he won the Phytochemical Society of Europe Medal for his research in phytochemistry. In 2005 he won the Phytochemical Society of Europe Prize for Phytochemistry, the 2012 Pharmanex Prize, and was a Fellow of The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health. From 2010-2019 he was a member of the UK Home Office Advisory Board on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) as a member of the Chemistry Council and was Chair of the ACMD New Psychoactive Substances Working Group (NPSWG).

Prof. Francisco A. Macias
Cadiz, Spain
Head of the Institute of Biomolecules (INBIO) since 2014. In 1999, he received the Rhône-Poulenc Rorer Award, Amsterdam, Netherlands, from the Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE), the 2011 Molish Award, Guangzhou, China. International Allelopathy Society (IAS) and Gold Medal, in recognition of research excellence, dedication and humanity, The European Forum 2001, February 2015.

Prof. Evelyn Wolfram
ZHAW - Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Wädenswil, Switzerland
PSE Secretary, Member of the Board and Scientific Committee ESCOP - European Scientific Society for Phytotherapy