Committees:
- Board
- Executive Committee
- Advocacy
- Awards
- Budget
- Conference
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- EcoEvoRxiv Committee
- Education and Outreach
- Fundraising
- Media
- Member Engagement Committee
- Senior Advisory Board
- Past Board Members
Annual Reports on Committee Activities:
Board of Directors
This is an elected committee that is ultimately responsible for SORTEE. Three positions on the board come open each year and are elected by the members of SORTEE in November. These terms last for three (3) years.
Members serving from 2025 through 2027 are:
Michael Bertram (he/him) is an Assistant Professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, where he investigates the impacts of human-induced environmental change on wildlife populations.
Stephanie Flaman is a MSc student at the University of Regina in conjunction with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
Marija Purgar (President-Elect) is a PhD student in Oceanology at the Faculty of Science and a research assistant at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb.
Members serving from 2024 through 2026 are:
Matthieu Paquet, (he/him) is a researcher working on behavioural ecology and population dynamics at the Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station (SETE,CNRS).
Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz (she/her) is a Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales Sydney, where she works on meta-research and evidence synthesis.
Members serving from 2023 through 2025 are:
Ed Ivimey-Cook (he/him) (President) is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow.
Patrice Pottier is a PhD student at the University of New South Wales.
Alfredo Sánchez Tójar is a researcher at Bielefeld University, where he focuses on evidence synthesis and meta-research in ecology and evolution.
Members serving from 2022 through 2024 are:
Kaija Gahm (Secretary) is a PhD student at UCLA, studying spatiotemporal dynamics of vulture social networks in the Pinter-Wollman lab.
Alexa Fredston (Treasurer) is a quantitative ecologist and Assistant Professor at the University of California Santa Cruz.
Executive Committee
As specified in the SORTEE bylaws, the Executive Committee is chosen by the Board of Directors.
Current officers are:
Ed Ivimey-Cook (he/him), University of Glasgow, UK (President)
Marija Purgar (President-Elect)
Rose O’Dea (Past President)
Alexa Fredston (Treasurer)
Kaija Gahm (Secretary)
Advocacy Committee
The Advocacy committee will develop policy statements and propose advocacy projects for improving the openness, reliability, and transparency of research in ecology and evolutionary biology.
Current members are:
Chair: Joel Pick (he/him), University of Edinburgh, UK (Website)
Christian John (he/him), University of California, USA
Ed Ivimey-Cook (he/him), University of Glasgow, UK
Julia Sharapi (she/her), Stanford University, USA
Kevin Bairos-Novak
Leyla Cabugos (she/her), California Polytechnic State University, USA
Marija Purgar
Sarah Hasnain (no pronouns), Sorbonne University, France
Shinichi Nakagawa (he/him), University of Alberta, Canada
Awards Committee
The awards committee is responsible for managing the SORTEE awards program https://www.sortee.org/awards/.
Current members are:
Chair: Hannah Dugdale (Website)
Elina Takola
Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz (she/her), The University of New South Wales, Australia; University of Alberta, Canada
Sandra Hamel (she/her), Université Laval, Canada
Budget Committee
The Budget Committee reviews and approves funding requests.
Current members are:
Alexa Fredston
Kaija Gahm
Tim Parker
Ed Ivimey-Cook (he/him), University of Glasgow, UK
Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz (she/her), The University of New South Wales, Australia; University of Alberta, Canada
Conference Committee
The Conference committee organizes the virtual SORTEE Conference, held in October.
Current members are:
Chair: Juliette Tariel-Adam (she/her), Macquarie University, Australia (Website)
Anita Tarandek (she/her), Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia
Ineta Kačergytė
Magdalena Wutkowska
Marija Purgar
Sofia Paraskevopoulou (she/her), University of Lund, Sweden
Stephanie Flaman
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion within SORTEE’s activities and committees.
Current members are:
Co-Chair: Friederike (freddy) Hillemann (Website)
Charlotte Recapet (they/them), Université Pau Pays de l’Adour, France
Elvira D’Bastiani (she/her), University of California, USA
Frigg Speelman
Manasee Weerathunga
Sarah Hasnain (no pronouns), Sorbonne University, France
Sofia Paraskevopoulou
Suz Everingham
Mark Young
EcoEvoRxiv Committee
EcoEvoRxiv (EcoEvo“archive”) is a not-for-profit subject-matter specific research repository for works related to ecology, evolution and conservation and is the official preprint server of SORTEE.
Current members are:
Co-Chair: Daniel Noble (he/him), The Australian National University, Australia (Website)
Co-Chair: Stefan Vriend (he/him), Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), The Netherlands (Website)
Birgit Szabo (they/them), Gent University, Belgium
Elvira D’Bastiani (she/her), University of California, USA
Félicie Dhellemmes
Jenna Braun
Mark Young
Marta Acácio
Melina de Souza Leite
Nicholas Wu, Murdoch University, Australia
Niladri Mondal (he/him), Katholic University at Leuven, Belgium
Pablo Recio Santiago
Yseult Héjja-Brichard (she/they), University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria; University of Vienna, Austria
Brooke Long-Fox (she/her/hers), MorphoBank, Phoenix Bioinformatics; South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA
Education and Outreach Committee
The Education & Outreach committee provides educational resources to individuals and organizations interested in learning more about improving research by making it more open, reliable, and transparent.
Current members are:
Chair: Saoirse Kelleher (she/her), University of Melbourne, Australia (Website)
Elizabeth Hrycyna
Giulia Masoero (she/her), Swiss Ornithological Institute, Switzerland
Leonardo Capitani, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland
Leveda Cheng
Nusrath Jahan Emu
Philip Ogbevire
Zuzanna Zagrodzka
Fundraising Committee
The Fundraising committee develops and implements plans for raising funds to support SORTEE.
Current members are:
Chair: Matthieu Paquet (he/him) (Website)
Aidan Tan
Dominique Roche
Michael Bertram (he/him), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Ruby Krasnow (she/her), University of Maine, US
Snata Chakraborty
Barbara Class (she/her), National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France
Media Committee
The Media committee develops content (for the website, social media, and newsletter), designs and maintains the website, and develops new ideas for spreading the word about SORTEE and open, reliable, and transparent science.
Current members are:
Chair: Tim Parker (Website)
Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar
Caleb Onoja Akogwu
Gabe Winter
Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz (she/her), The University of New South Wales, Australia; University of Alberta, Canada
Manasee Weerathunga
Oakleigh Wilson
Swastika Issar
July Pilowsky (they/he/she), Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, USA
Member Engagement Committee
The Member Engagement Committee oversees opportunities for SORTEE members to interact throughout the year. The motivation behind starting this committee is to increase the benefits of SORTEE membership (e.g., camaraderie and the opportunity to join collaborative projects).
Current members are:
Chair: Natalie van Dis (Website)
Cecilia Baldoni
Charlotte Recapet
Corné de Groot
Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz (she/her), The University of New South Wales, Australia; University of Alberta, Canada
Rachel Turba
Senior Advisory Board
The purpose of the SAB is to provide senior counsel and advice to SORTEE leadership (Officers, Directors, and Chairs), and to facilitate strategic connections with related organizations and individuals. The Terms of Reference for the Senior Advisory Board can be found here.
Current members are:
Allen Moore
Ben Sheldon
Bob Montgomerie
Bob Wong
Fiona Fidler
Julia Koricheva
Klaus Reinhold
Loeske Kruuk
Mark Burgman
Michael Jennions
Nicolas Galtier
Richard McElreath
Tracey Chapman
William Sutherland
Past Board Members
Please see this page.