Chairs
| General Chair | Juergen Czarske |
| International Program Committee Chair of ICO-25 | Wolfgang Osten |
| International Program Committee Chair of OWLS-16 | Alexander Heisterkamp |
| Honorary Chair | Gert von Bally |
| Fundraising Committee Chair | Michael Pfeffer |
International Advisory Committee
| Roberta Ramponi | Technical University Milano | Italy |
| Yasuhiko Arakawa | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
| Joseph Niemela | ICTP | Italy |
| Humberto Michinel | Universidad de Vigo | Spain |
| Qi-Huang Gong | Peking University | China |
| John Harvey | University of Auckland | New Zealand |
| Nataliya D. Kundikova | South Ural State University | Russia |
| Sara Otero Barros | Radiatis | Spain |
| Seung Han Park | Yonsei University | Korea |
| Adrian Podoleanu | University of Kent | UK |
| Leszek Sirko | Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw | Poland |
| Mourad Zghal | University of Carthage | Tunisia |
| Kent D. Choquette | University of Illinois | USA |
| John C. Howell | University of Rochester | USA |
| Carmina Londoño | National Science Foundation | USA |
| Eric Rosas | Clúster Mexicano de Fotónica | México |
| Paul Urbach | Technical University Delft | Netherlands |
| Gert von Bally | University of Münster | Germany |
| Ahmadou Wague | Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar | Sénégal |
| Carmen Cisneros | IUPAP Council Representative | México |
| William T. Rhodes | Florida Atlantic University | USA |
| Kenneth Baldwin | Australian National University | Australia |
| John Dudley | Universite de Franche-Comte | France |
| Supdipta Maiti | Tata Inst. of Fundamental Reserc, Mumbaih | India |
| Anand Asundi | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
| Stephen Morgan | University of Nottingham | Great Britain |
| Jochen Foth | Techn. University Kaiserslautern | Germany |
| David Sampson | University of Western Australia, Perth | Australia |
| Alberto Diaspro | Institute of Technology, Genua | Italy |
| Podbielska Halina | Wrocław University of Science and Technology | Poland |
Local Committee
| Lars Büttner |
| Nektarios Koukourakis |
| Cathleen John |
| Jessica Matzke |
| Thilo Sandner |
| Bernd Kleemann |
| And other Members of the Chair of Measurement and Sensor System Technique |