| Name | Title/Affiliation | Area(s) of Expertise |
| Adela Roa-Varon | Researcher of the NMNH, Smithsonian Institution / California Academy of Sciences, USA | Marine Fish Systematics, Phylogenomics, Population Genetics, Integrative Species Delimitation |
| Alejandro Perez Matus | Associate Professor of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Chile | Community Ecology, Mesophotic Reef Ecology, Scientific Diving and Marine Exploration, Marine Conservation |
| Andrew Chin | Researcher of the James Cook university, Australia | Fisheries; elasmobranchs |
| Chien-Hsiang Lin | Researcher of the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan | Fish fossils, Otoliths, Marine paleoecology |
| David bellwood | Professor of the James Cook university, Australia | Coral reef fish evolution and ecology |
| Clara LORD | Associate Professor of the UMR BOREA, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, France | Taxonomy, integrative taxonomy, phylogeny, phylogeography, otolith sciences (microstructure; microchemical analysis), tropical freshwater fish, amphidromy, dissemination of knowledge for conservation purposes. |
| Gerry Closs | Professor of the University of Otago | Freshwater fish, life history, otoliths |
| Giacomo Bernardi | Professor of the University of California Santa Cruz | Systematics, Population genomics, Molecular Ecology |
| Hiroki Hata | Professor of the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University | Ecology |
| Hiroyuki Motomura | Professor of the Kagoshima University Museum, Japan | Taxonomy |
| Hsuanwien Chen | Associate professor of the National Chiayi University | Fish parasite, aquatic food web |
| Huy Duc Hoang | Professor of the University of Science HoChiMinh City, Vietnam | Evolution and Biodiversity |
| Ivan Nagelkerken | Professor of the The University of Adelaide | Climate change, food-webs, behaviour, community ecology, mangroves & seagrasses, species range extensions |
| Jen-Chieh Shiao | Professor of the Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taiwan | Ecology, life history |
| Jennifer Donelson | Associate Professor of the James Cook university, Australia | Fish ecology, Phenotypic plasticity, Parental effects, Coral reefs, Climate change impacts, Early life history |
| Keith Philippe | Professor of the UMR BOREA, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, France | Taxonomy, phylogeny, Migratory species (Diadromy), Freshwater, tropical Island, conservation |
| Larry Page | Professor of the Florida Museum of Natural History, USA | Freshwater fishes |
| Lynnath Beckley | Emeritus Professor of the Murdoch University | Larval fish ecology, general biology of fishes, biological oceanography |
| Marine Banse | Researcher of the University of Liège, Belgium | Acoustics, ethology, morphology, ecology, genetics |
| Matthew "Mac" Campbell | Researcher of the University of Sydney, Australia | Phylogenetics; Population Genetics; Functional Genomics; Computational Biology |
| Michelle Gaither | Associate Professor of the University of Central Florida, USA | population genetics, eDNA |
| Parmentier Eric | Professor of the University of Liège, Belgium | Acoustic communication, Morphology, Ecomorphology |
| Ryota Hasegawa | Researcher of the University of Otago, New Zealand | Fish parasitology |
| Terry Donaldson | Professor of the University of Guam, Marine Laboratory/Guam EPSCoREP | Ichthyology, behavioral ecology, biogeography, coral reef ecology and conservation |
| Vincent Laudet | Professor of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan and Researcher of the Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan | Evo/Devo, Anemonefish, Symbiosis, Transcriptomic, Cora Reef Fish |
| Wei-Jen Chen | Professor of the Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taiwan | Evolutionary Biology, Biogeography, Molecular Phylogenetics, Biodiversity, Populations Genetics, Phylogenomics |
| Yung-Che Tseng | Researcher of the Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan | Physiology |
| Zainal Abidin Muchlisin | Professor of the Universitas Syiah Kuala, Aceh | Fish Biology and Aquaculture |
| Zeehan Jaafar | Senior Lecturer of the National University of Singapore | Ecology and Evolution of Coastal Fishes |