Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC) for IAU FM5
| Sang-Hyeon Ahn | Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Republic of Korea  | 
| Aşkin Ankay | Boĝazıçı University Istanbul, Turkey | 
| Dipankar Banerjee | Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India | 
| James Evans | U Puget Sound, USA | 
| Lyndsay Fletcher | U Glasgow, UK | 
| Rita Gautschy | U Basel, Switzerland | 
| Dagmar Neuhäuser | Jena, Germany, independent researcher | 
| Ralph Neuhäuser | U Jena, Germany (Co-chair) | 
| Thomas Posch | U Vienna, Austria (Co-chair) | 
| Brad Schaefer | Louisiana SU, USA | 
| John Steele | Brown U, Rhode Island, USA | 
| F. Richard Stephenson | U Durham, UK | 
| José Vaquero | U Extremadura, Spain | 
| Nikolaus Vogt | U Valparaiso, Chile | 
| Marcus Werner | U Kyoto, Japan | 
| Hamid-Reza Giahi Yazdi | History of Science, Teheran, Iran |