Astrid Groot is elected Vice President of the ICSE

News reached NOSE that last month, nose member Astrid Groot was elected vice president of the International Society of Chemical Ecology! We would like to congratulate Astrid with this exciting news and next step.

From the ICSE newsletter: Astrid is an ISCE member since 1995 and has been active in the society as council member (2014-2018), (co)organized a symposium at the ISCE meeting (2013), published 9 papers in the Journal of Chemical Ecology, and has reviewed regularly for this journal. She has also been co-editor of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, section Chemical Ecology, was external board member of the Max Planck center Next generation Insect Chemical Ecology (2022-2024), is part of the European Network in Chemical Ecology, organized the Amsterdam Chemical Ecology symposium (2018), was guest lecturer in the International Chemical Ecology course (2019, 2025), and (co)organized the PhD course Chemical communications (2020, 2025). She is also co-editor of the textbook “Introduction to Chemical Ecology”,
which come online in 2026.

If elected to vice-president of ISCE, her aim would be to further promote our society and the field of chemical ecology by reaching out to young and established researchers and practioners within the fields of Biology, Chemistry and pest management, but also in less obvious areas, such as Psychobiology, AI and Molecular and Material design, where chemical ecological principles
can be applied.