The Department Council is an executive body that supports the role of the director.

Statutory components of the Depearment council are: the Director (who is president of the council), the vice director, the head of the  administrative staff, the presidents of the boards of the Biological Sciences and Biotechnology degrees (for which the Department is the principal reference) and the president or a representative of the interdepartmental teaching board for Natural Sciences.

Elected components of the Department Council are: 4 full Professors, 4 associate Professors, 4 assistant Professors (contacted or tenured) and 4 representatives of the technical and administrative staff.