European Society for Evolutionary Biology

Organisation to support the study of organic evolution

The European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) was founded in 1987 in Basel (Switzerland) with around 450 evolutionary biologists attending the inaugural congress. It is an academic society that brings together more than 1500 evolutionary biologists from across Europe and beyond. The founding of the society was closely linked with the launch of the society's journal, the Journal of Evolutionary Biology with the first issue appearing in 1988. ESEB aims at supporting the study of evolution. Beside publishing the journal and co-publishing Evolution Letters, the society organises a biannual congress and supports other events to promote advances in evolutionary biology. ESEB also supports activities to promote a scientific view of evolution in research and education.^[1]

Its objectives are to "Support the study of organic evolution and the integration of those scientific fields that are concerned with evolution: molecular and microbial evolution, behaviour, genetics, ecology, life histories, development, paleontology, systematics and morphology."^{[citation needed]}

ESEB supports young researchers through sponsoring the annual EMPSEB (European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology) research conference for Ph.D. students.^[2]^[3]

Presidents

Source: ESEB

1987–1989 : Arthur Cain (first president)
1989–1991 : Bengt Bengtsson
1991–1993 : John Maynard Smith
1993–1995 : John L. Harper
1995–1997 : Wim Scharloo
1997–1999 : Stephen Stearns
1999–2001 : Godfrey Hewitt
2001–2003 : Deborah Charlesworth
2003–2005 : Rolf Hoekstra
2005–2007 : Paul Brakefield
2007–2009 : Isabelle Olivieri
2009–2011 : Siv Andersson
2011–2013 : Brian Charlesworth
2013–2015 : Roger Butlin
2015–2017 : Laurent Keller
2017–2019 : Nina Wedell
2019–2021 : Ophélie Ronce

References

^ "Society - ESEB | European Society for Evolutionary Biology". eseb.org. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
^ "Home page". ESEB. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
^ "About EMPSEB". EMPSEB. Retrieved 15 January 2017.