Jürg Huber is the Head of the “Institute for Biological Control” of the German “Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry” at Darmstadt. His institute covers all aspects of biological control of pests as well as diseases of plants. He himself is insect pathologist and his key qualifications and interests are in the practical use of viruses for control of insect pests in agriculture and forestry and in production, registration and commercialisation of microbial and viral pesticides.
He served in the IOBC/wprs since 1985. First as founding member and as convenor of the WG “Insect Pathogens and Insect Parasitic Nematodes”, and from 1989 to 2005 as a member of the executive committee of IOBC/wprs in the function of treasurer and vice president.