| Year | Name | New position |
| 2008 - 2012 | Jarod Rollins | Assistant Professor Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, MDI Biological Laboratory |
| 2008 - 2013 | Elisabeth Luley | retired |
| 2008 - 2013 | Ermias Habte | Research Officer, International Livestock Research Institute, ILRI, Ethiopia |
| 2008 - 2014 | Chiara Campoli | Group leader, Barley Geneticist, Cell and Molecular Sciences, the James Hutton Institute/International Barley Hub (IBH), University of Dundee, Scotland |
| 2008 - 2017 | Kerstin Luxa | Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research |
| 2009 - 2016 | Benedikt Digel | Lead Researcher, Senzyme GmbH ˖ Standort Eilsleben |
| 2010 - 2016 | Muhammad Aman Mulki | Research Scientist at KWS Group |
| 2012 - 2017 | Lukas Müller | Patent Engineer at Wächtershäuser & Hartz, Patentanwaltspartnerschaft mbB |
| 2013 - 2016 | Wilma van Esse | Assistant Professor Wageningen University |
| 2013 - 2017 | Andrea Lossow | retired |
| 2013 - 2018 | Mahwish Ejaz | Researcher, Sainsbury Laboratories, Cambridge University |
| 2015 - 2018 | Filipa Tomé | Senior Innovation Consultant, PNO Innovation Portugal |
| 2013 - 2019 | Xiaojing Bi | Researcher, College of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China |
| 2014 - 2019 | Tanja Reitz | University of Cologne |
| 2015 - 2020 | Leonard Gol | Medical Science Liaison at Sanofi Pasteur, Leipzig |
| 2011 - 2020 | Artem Pankin | Computational Biology Researcher at Rijk Zwaan, Netherlands |
| 2017 - 2021 | Jinshun Zhong | Professor, South China Agricultural University |
| 2017 - 2022 | Meike Siebers | Medical Writer, KWMedipoint, Bonn |
| 2021 - 2023 | Ilyse Putz | |
| 2023 - 2024 | Julie Jacquemin | |
| 2023 - 2024 | Maria Bernal | |
| 2018 - 2025 | Gesa Helmsorig | |