The ICOS Science Conference Programme Committee consists of experts from the community and contributes to the organisation of the conference programme.
Tommy Bornman
Prof Thomas Bornman manages the Elwandle Coastal Node of the South African Environmental Observation Network (NRF–SAEON) and the Shallow Marine and Coastal Research Infrastructure (SMCRI), funded by South Africa’s Department of Science, Technology and Innovation. His research spans a broad range of topics, including (1) carbon sequestration and the biological pump, (2) blue carbon in coastal habitats, (3) greenhouse gas fluxes in estuaries, and (4) coastal surface pCO₂ and air–sea fluxes. He leads the development and implementation of a long-term Coastal Greenhouse Gas Observation Network for South Africa.
Carolina Cantoni
Carolina Cantoni is a senior researcher in marine chemistry at the Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR-ISMAR), within the National Research Council of Italy. Her research focuses on the drivers and variability of air–sea CO₂ fluxes and the marine carbonate system, with study areas ranging from Mediterranean coastal zones to the open sea and Arctic fjords. She is Principal Investigator of the ICOS station PALOMA in the Northern Adriatic Sea and currently serves as co-chair of the ICOS Ocean Marine Station Assembly.
Lukas Emmenegger
Dr. Lukas Emmenegger is Head of the Laboratory for Air
Pollution / Environmental Technology at Empa. His team operates the Swiss National Air Pollution Monitoring Network and a World Calibration Centre within the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) program of WMO. His primary research interest lies in integrating measurements and modeling of anthropogenic air pollutants relevant to climate change and human health. Dr. Emmenegger serves as a member of the Swiss Federal Commission for Air Hygiene and the Jungfraujoch Commission of the Swiss Academy of Sciences. He is also co-founder of two spin-off companies specializing in laser spectroscopy for trace gas analysis.
Arnoud Frumau
Arnoud Frumau is a scientist at the Environmental Modelling, Sensing and Analysis (EMSA) expertise group, part of the System Solutions and Environment (SSE) division at the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). Arnoud’s research interests include the development and application of measurement techniques, the determination of emission factors for anthropogenic sources using (mobile) measurements, and the study of greenhouse gas and nitrogen fluxes between ecosystems and the atmosphere. Mitigation strategies, such as groundwater level control, are being explored to influence these fluxes. Arnoud is also the Principal Investigator of the ICOS station Cabauw.
Alexander Graf
Dr. Alexander Graf is a senior scientist at the institute of Bio- and Geosciences 3 (Agrosphere) at Forschungszentrum Jülich, a major German multidisciplinary research centre. He co-manages four ICOS and FLUXNET Eddy-Covariance sites monitoring carbon and other fluxes in representative low- and upland ecosystems of Western Germany. His research interests are the methodological development of hard- and software for profile, turbulence and chamber measurements and multi-site analyses enabling conclusions on climate-smart land use. He currently serves terms as a Member Station Assembly chair in ICOS and as a Community council member in FLUXNET.
Eija Juurola
Dr. Eija Juurola is the Director General of ACTRIS ERIC. ACTRIS, the Aerosol, Clouds and Trace Gases Research Infrastructure, is an European research infrastructure delivering high-quality integrated datasets and access services in the field of atmospheric sciences. Before joining ACTRIS during its implementation phase, she worked in ICOS ERIC. She obtained the PhD in University of Helsinki. Dr. Juurola was the Chair of the ENVRI Board in 2025 and is the Vice Chair of the ERIC Forum.
Natascha Kljun
Natascha Kljun is a
professor at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, Lund University in Sweden. She is an expert in land surface - atmosphere interactions; her current research focuses on biospheric feedback mechanisms and the impact of disturbances (e.g. forest fire, but also forest management) on the regional carbon cycle. Natascha Kljun has over 20 years of experience in footprint/source-area modelling. She is PI & co-PI of the ICOS-Sweden ecosystem stations Norunda and Hyltemossa. She also co-coordinates the Swedish Strategic Research Area MERGE (ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system).
Michel Ramonet
Michel Ramonet is a senior
scientist at the CNRS working at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) in Saclay, France. He is the scientific coordinator of the national greenhouse gas measurement network, which comprises 20 measuring stations mainly in France, South America and Africa. He is also developing measurements of greenhouse gases vertical profiles (Aircore) and total columns in France and tropical areas. Strongly involved in ICOS-France he also contributes to atmospheric measurements as part of the ICOS-Cities and NUBICOS projects, as well as leading the evaluation of CO2 and CH4 simulations in CAMS, using ICOS observations.
Matthew Saunders
Dr Matthew Saunders is an Associate Professor in Plant Ecophysiology in the School of Natural Sciences, Botany Discipline and is the Head of the School of Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Matthew's research interests focus on the ecosystem to atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gases using micrometeorological techniques and how these fluxes change with land use, management and climatic variability. He is the PI of the ICOS Associated Ecosystem Station, Clara raised bog, and contributes to the coordination of the national network of ICOS ecosystem stations.
The Programme Committee also includes representatives from the ICOS Head Office - Werner Kutsch (Director General), Hannele Laine (Director General elect) and Sindu Raj Parampil (Science Integration Officer).
The work of the programme committee is supported by Maiju Tiiri and Theresia Bilola (ICOS Head Office organising team), and Jutta Holst, Claudio D'onofrio and Tim Arnold (local organising team).