On 21 October, 2016, during the 6th Erupean Congress of Virology in Hamburg, the Assembly of Members elected the members of the Advisory Council 2016-2019:
| Albert Bosch, Department of Microbiology, University of Barcelona, Spain |
| Margarita Del Val, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Universidad Autònoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Spain |
| W. Paul Duprex, Cell and Tissue Imaging Core, Dept. of Microbiology, Boston |
| Urs Greber, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Michael Kann, UMR-CNRS 5234, University of Bordeaux 2, France |
| Marion Koopmans, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| Thomas Mettenleiter, Department of Molecular Biology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, |
| Albert Osterhaus, Department of Virology, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands |
| Lennart Svensson, Div. of Molecular Virology, Med. Faculty, University of Linköping, Sweden |
| Jan Svoboda, Dept. of Viral and Cellular Genetics, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Czech Republic |
| Veronika von Messling, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen, Germany |
| Friedemann Weber, Institute for Virology, FB10 – Veterinary Medicine, Gießen, Germany |