| Salome Buchenau | Volunteer | 2024-2025 | |
| Leonie Griesinger | Volunteer | 2024-2025 | |
| Frank Reis | PhD student (DFG) | 2019-2025 | |
| Jun Hee Jung | PhD student (DFG) | 2019-2025 | |
| Christiane Karasch-Wittmann | Technician | retired | |
| Yuhan Chen | Visiting PhD student (CSC) | 2024-2025 | Back at Beijing Foresty University |
| Sulochana Kannan | Research assistant | 2023-2024 | |
| Timea Hanny | Volunteer | 2023-2024 | |
| Fee Ress | Volunteer | 2023-2024 | |
| Dario Galanti | PhD student (EU) | 2018-2024 | Postdoc at Kew Gardens |
| Jana Meierdierks | Technician | 2023 | |
| Katharina Breyvogel | Volunteer | 2022-2023 | |
| Rosa Schmitt | Volunteer | 2022-2023 | |
| Yaolin Guo | Visiting PhD student (CSC) | 2022-2023 | Back at Fudan University |
| Armand Cavét-Radet | Postdoc (DAAD) | 2020-2023 | |
| Christina Richards | Group leader (DAAD) | 2019-2022 | back at University of South Florida |
| Isolde van Riemsdijk | Postdoc (DFG) | 2020-2022 | Postdoc at University of Lund |
| Robert Rauschkolb | MSc + PhD student (DBU) | 2017-2022 | Postdoc at University of Jena |
| Clara Hampf | Volunteer | 2021-2022 | |
| Vit Latzel | Guest scientist | 2021 | Back at IBOT in Pruhonice, CZ |
| Franziska Willems | PhD student (DFG) | 2017-2021 | Postdoc at University of Marburg |
| Ellen Bank | Volunteer | 2020-2021 | |
| Anna Kirschbaum | MSc + PhD student (DFG) | 2016-2021 | Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe |
| Chen Chen | Visiting scientist (CSC) | 2020 | back at Nanjing Agricultural University |
| Niek Scheepens | Group leader | 2014-2020 | Professor at University of Frankfurt |
| Mustapha Aly | Scientist & lecturer | 2017-2020 | |
| Charlotte Møller | PhD student (DFG) | 2020 | continuing PhD in Frankfurt |
| Mali Bunz | Volunteer | 2019-2020 | Student at University of Stuttgart |
| Bence Gáspár | PhD student (DFG) | 2014-2019 | Dancing back to Nature |
| Jennie Mounger | Visiting researcher (DAAD) | 2019 | Back at USF Tampa |
| Kelli Gowland | Visiting researcher | 2019 | Back at ANU Canberra |
| Shirley Deng | PhD student (CSC) | 2015-2019 | |
| Caroline Lou | Visiting student | 2019 | Back at McGill University |
| Elodie Kugler | Volunteer | 2018-2019 | Biology student at Uni Tübingen |
| Brigitte Hinderer | Secretary | -2019 | retired |
| Cornelia Dilger-Endrulat | Herbarium caretaker | 1982-2018 | retired but still creative |
| Jutta Bloschies | Technician | 2013-2018 | |
| Franz Oberwinkler | Emeritus | 1974-2008 | Professor Oberwinkler passed away in March 2018 |
| Anna Lampei-Bucharova | Postdoc | 2013-2018 | Assistant professor at University of Münster |
| Javier Morente | Visiting PhD student | 2017 | |
| Zhiyong Liao | Visiting scientist (CSC) | 2016-2017 | Assistant professor at XTBG in China |
| Sigisfredo Garnica | Postdoc | 1998-2017 | Professor of Mycology at Universidad Austral de Chile |
| Yan Sun | Postdoc (SNF) | 2016-2017 | Postdoc at University of Fribourg |
| Samuel Hamard | Intern | 2017 | PhD student at University of Toulouse |
| Ramon Diaz Grados | Visiting student | 2017 | back at University of Barcelona |
| Liliana Szczeparska | Visiting student | 2017 | Back at University of Warsaw |
| Shujuan Wei | Teach@Tübingen fellow | 2016-2017 | Back at Fudan University |
| Angelika Honold | Senior lecturer | 1984-2017 | retired |
| Ingrid Astfalk | Gardener | 2013-2016 | Gärtnerei Stephan, Tübingen |
| Kai Riess | Postdoc | 2013-2015 | University of Koblenz-Landau |
| Barbara Piškur | Guest scientist | 2014-2015 | Gozdarsky Inštitutt Slovenia |
| Rob Colautti | Postdoc | 2015 | Assistant Professor at Queen's University, Canada |
| Robert Bauer | Senior lecturer | 1983-2014 | Robert passed away in September 2014 |
| Luisa Conti | Visiting PhD student | 2014 | PhD student at Università Roma Tre |
| Inga Hiiesalu | Guest scientist | 2013-2014 | Plant Ecology lab at University of Tartu |
| Délfida Rodríguez Justaviano | Postdoc | 2011-2013 | |
