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Current IUSS Division and Commission Officers (2022-2026)

Division 1

Chair of Division 1

Richard Heck / Canada
rheck@uoguelph.ca

1st Vice Chairperson

Ganlin Zhang / China
glzhang@issas.ac.cn

2nd Vice Chairperson

Ying Zhang / China
zhangying_neau@163.com

Commission 1.1: Soil Morphology and Micromorphology

Chair

Fabio Terribile / Italy
fabio.terribile@unina.it

Vice Chair

Adam Csorba / Hungary
csorba.adam@uni-mate.hu

Commission 1.2: Soil Geography

Chair

Sergey V. Goryachkin / Russia
sergey.gory@gmail.com

Vice Chair

Eduardo Guimarães Couto / Brasil
couto@ufmt.br

Commission 1.3: Soil Genesis

Chair

Endre Dobos / Hungary
ecodobos@uni-miskolc.hu

Vice Chair

Yuji Maejima / Japan
ymaeji@affrc.go.jp

Commission 1.4: Soil Classification

Chair

Cornelius van Huyssteen / South Africa
vanhuyssteencw@gmail.com

Vice Chair

David Badía-Villas / Spain
badia@unizar.es

Commission 1.5: Pedometrics

Chair

Alexandre Wadoux / France
alexandre.wadoux@inrae.fr

Vice Chair

Simone Priori / Italy
simone.priori@unitus.it

Commission 1.6: Palaeopedology

Chair

Maria Bronnikova / Russia
bronnikova@igras.ru or mabro@nmsu.edu

Vice Chair

Elizabeth Solleiro-Rebolledo / Mexico
solleiro@geologia.unam.mx

Commission 1.7/3.8: Permafrost Affected Soils

Chair

Alexey Lupachev / Russian Federation
a.lupachev@gmail.com or cryosolworkinggroup@gmail.com

Vice Chair

Adrian Unc / Canada
aunc@mun.ca or podzolboreal@gmail.com

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Division 2

Chair of Division 2

Giuseppe Corti / Italy
g.corti@staff.univpm.it

1st Vice Chairperson

Xiaoyuan Yan / China
yanxy@issas.ac.cn

2nd Vice Chairperson

Jianming Xu / China
jmxu@zju.edu.cn

Commission 2.1: Soil Physics

Chair

Silvia C. Imhoff / Argentina
imhoff.silvia@gmail.com

Vice Chair

Cezary Sławiński / Poland
c.slawinski@ipan.lublin.pl

Commission 2.2: Soil Chemistry

Chair

Karen Vancampenhout / Belgium
karen.vancampenhout@kuleuven.be

Vice Chair

Boris Jansen / The Netherlands
b.jansen@uva.nl

Commission 2.3: Soil Biology

Chair

Alberto Acedo Becares / Spain
acedo@biomemakers.com

Vice Chair

Magdalena Frac / Poland
m.frac@ipan.lublin.pl

Commission 2.4: Soil Mineralogy

Chair

Sofia N. Lessovaia / Russia
s.lesovaya@spbu.ru

Vice Chair

Edson Campanhola Bortoluzzi / Brazil
edsonb@upf.br

Commission 2.5: Soil Chemical, Physical and Biological Interfacial Reactions

Chair

Elke J. Noellemeyer / Argentina
noellemeyer@agro.unlpam.edu.ar

Vice Chair

Pablo Cornejo / Chile
cimysa@ufrontera.cl

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Division 3

Chair of Division 3

Renfang Shen / China
rfshen@issas.ac.cn

1st Vice Chairperson

Fusuo Zhang / China
zhangfs@cau.edu.cn

2nd Vice Chairperson

Commission 3.1: Soil Evaluation and Land Use Planning

Chair

Jagdish Prasad / India
j.prasad57@gmail.com

Vice Chair

Morihiro Maeda / Japan
mun@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp

Commission 3.2: Soil and Water Conservation

Chair

Lillian Øygarden / Norway
Lillian.oygarden@nibio.no

Vice Chair

Dorota Agnieszka Dec / Chile
dorota.dec@uach.cl

Commission 3.3: Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition

Chair

Fernando O. García / Argentina
fgarcia1957@gmail.com

Vice Chair

Luciano Colpo Gatiboni / Brazil
gatiboni@cav.udesc.br

Commission 3.4: Soil Engineering and Technology

Chair

Yuanfang Huang / China
yfhuang@cau.edu.cn

Vice Chair

Taku Nishimura / Japan
takun@soil.en.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Commission 3.5: Soil Degradation, Control, Remediation and Reclamation

Chair

Stefan Norra / Germany
stefan.norra@kit.edu

Vice Chair

Anna Karczewska / Poland
anna.karczewska@upwr.edu.pl

Commission 3.6: Salt Affected Soils

Chair

Jorge Batlle Sales / Spain
jorge.batlle@uv.es

Vice Chair

Sanjay Arora / India
aroraicar@gmail.com

Commission 3.7: Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas – SUITMA

Chair

Kye-Hoon John Kim / Korea
johnkim@uos.ac.kr

Vice  Chair

Przemysław Charzyński / Poland
pecha@umk.pl

Commission 3.8/1.7: Permafrost Affected Soils (Joint with Division 1)

Chair

Alexey Lupachev / Russian Federation
a.lupachev@gmail.com or cryosolworkinggroup@gmail.com

Vice Chair

Adrian Una / Canada
aunc@grenfell.mun.ca

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Division 4

Chair of Division 4

Claudio Zaccone / Italy
claudio.zaccone@univr.it

1st Vice Chairperson

Yongguan Zhu / China
ygzhu@iue.ac.cn

2nd Vice Chairperson

Xin Song / China
xsong@issas.ac.cn

Commission 4.1: Soils and the Environment

Chair

Miriam Muñoz Rojas / Spain
miriammunozrojas@gmail.com

Vice Chair

Nobuhide Fujitake / Japan
fujitake@kobe-u.ac.jp

Commission 4.2: Soils, Food Security, and Human Health

Chair

Taru Sanden / Austria
taru.sanden@ages.at

Vice Chair

Takuro Shinano / Japan
shinano@agr.hokudai.ac.jp

Commission 4.3: Soils and Land Use Change

Chair: Gary Feng / USA
gary.feng@usda.gov

Vice Chair

Felipe Andrés Zúñiga Ugalde / Chile
fzuniga@uach.cl

Commission 4.4: Soil Education and Public Awareness

Chair

Martha M. Bolanos-Benavides / Colombia
mmbolanos@agrosavia.co

Vice Chair

Juan C. Rey / Venezuela
jcrey67@gmail.com

Commission 4.5: History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Soil Science

Chair

Alexandra Toland / Germany
alexandra.toland@uni-weimar.de

Vice Chair

Anna Krzywoszynska / Germany
anna.krzywoszynska@oulu.fi

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