Editorial Board for section 'Wood Science and Forest Products'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

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Department of Agriculture and Forest Science, University of Tuscia. Via San Camillo de Lellis snc, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
Interests: wood characterisation; wood anatomy; wood modification; wood coating; mechanical testing; physical testing; wood properties; wood quality; tree growth; forest products; forest resource management; sustainability; wood in cultural heritage; wood in religious art
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Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Joensuu, Finland
Interests: optimization methods in forestry; wood supply chain management and optimization; sensing technology; AI and automation in forestry
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Department of Mechanical Wood Technology, Faculty of Forest Industry, University of Forestry, 1797 Sofia, Bulgaria
Interests: wood and wood-based composites; eco-friendly wood-based composites; lignocellulosic composites; wood technology; wood sciences; bio-based adhesives; advanced formaldehyde-based wood adhesives; formaldehyde emission; formaldehyde scavengers; recyclable materials; sustainability; bioeconomy
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Department of Wood Mechanics and Technology, Faculty of Forestry, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Bahcekoy, Sariyer, 34473 Istanbul, Turkey
Interests: wood and wood based composites
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Service of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), Leuvensesteenweg 13, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium
Interests: wood biology understood as the study of wood as a result of growth, the compartmentalization of it in cells and tissues and its variability; xylem anatomy; dendrochronology; carrying capacity of populations and communities of trees and of forest ecosystems; Central African rainforests and woodlands; tropical forests resilience; trait-based ecology; research relevant for development cooperation; epistemology of ecology
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Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, 495 Borlaug Hall, St. Paul, MN 55108-6030, USA
Interests: forest pathology; tree diseases; forest microbes; microbial diversity; biological processing; forest health; wood microbiology; wood decomposition

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LERMAB - Wood Sciences Laboratory, Université de Lorraine, 27 rue Philippe SEGUIN, 88000 Epinal, France
Interests: timber construction; assembly; wood quality; mechanics of wood and wood composite

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CNR IBE, Institute of Bioeconomy, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Interests: wood science; wood-based products; mechanical testing; physical testing; wood properties; wood quality; visual and machine timber grading; diagnosis of timber structures; model forest network
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1. Biomaterials and Nanotechnology Research Group & BioNanoTeam, 34473 Istanbul, Türkiye
2. Turkish Academy of Sciences, 06670 Ankara, Türkiye
3. Department of Forest Products Engineering, Faculty of Forestry, Istanbul University Cerrahpasa, 34473 Istanbul, Türkiye
Interests: sustainable materials; green materials; nanomaterials/nanocomposites; lignocellulosic biomaterials (nanocellulose, nanolignin); thermal analysis (DMTA/TMA, TGA, DSC); renewable energy (biomass energy, pellets, and briquettes); industry 4.0
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Department of Wood and Forest Sciences, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
Interests: wood-based composites; wood anatomy; wood physical and mechanical properties
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BioComposites Centre, Bangor University, Deiniol Road, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK
Interests: wood microbiology; moisture interactions; wood polymers; wooden heritage; wood-based panel products; wood protection
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Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Interests: bamboo structure and properties; bamboo-based materials; wood composites; engineered wood products

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Department of Forest Biomaterials and Technology/Wood Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Interests: wood and fibre nanostructure; modification and degradation

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Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via Università, 100, Portici, 80055 Naples, Italy
Interests: functional anatomical traits; plant hydraulics; quantitative wood anatomy; dendro-sciences; xylogenesis; intra-annual density fluctuations; plant morpho-functional adaptation in natural environments and in crop production; plant adaptation to extreme environments
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Departamento de Sistemas y Recursos Naturales, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Montes, Forestal y del Medio Natural, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: wood; ontogeny; cell wall; anatomy; physical properties; mechanical properties; modified wood
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Department of Agroforestry Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, Campus Terra s/n, E-27002 Lugo, Spain
Interests: forest management; landscape ecology; natural protected areas; planning and rural development; wood technology
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Scion, Te Papa Tipu Innovation Park, Tītokorangi Drive (formerly Long Mile Rd), Rotorua 3010, New Zealand
Interests: wood physics; wood processing; chemical and bioprocess engineering
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1. Centre for Natural Resources, Environment and Society-CERNAS-IPV Research Centre, Av. Cor. José Maria Vale de Andrade, 3504-510 Viseu, Portugal
2. Department of Wood Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Av. Cor. José Maria Vale de Andrade, 3504-510 Viseu, Portugal
Interests: wood and other lignocellulosic materials; lignocellulosic conversion; biomass conversion; ecotoxicology; heat treatment; green technology; pyrolysis; natural fibers
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SilviScan Pty Ltd, 8 Dobell Place, Doncaster, East Victoria 3109, Australia
Interests: wood structure; non-destructive testing; climate adaptation; forest products

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Department of Ecosystems and Environment, Faculty of Agronomy and Forest Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 8330024, Chile
Interests: silviculture; tree architecture; forest growth modeling; functional structural plant modeling; allometry; xylogenesis; urban forestry; wood quality modeling

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Centro de Estudos Florestais, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: non-wood forest products; barks and cork chemistry; GC-MS, HPLC-MS; polar and non-polar extractives analysis; suberin structural composition analysis; bioactive compounds
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Department of Wood Processing and Biomaterials, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 21 Praha 6–Suchdol, Czech Republic
Interests: mechanical properties of wood and biomaterials; wood modification; elasticity; plasticity; bending; laser cutting; quality of the surface

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Departamento de Sistemas y Recursos Naturales, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Montes, Forestal y del Medio Natural, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: wood; ontogeny; cell wall; anatomy; physical properties; mechanical properties; modified wood
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Forest Dynamics, Dendrosciences, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Interests: wood anatomy; tree roots; dendrogeomorphology; micro sectioning; dendroecology

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Institute of Forest Ecology, Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, Universität für Bodenkultur, Peter Jordan Str 82, 1190 Vienna, Austria
Interests: forest biodiversity; mycorrhizas; C and N cycling
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United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Jardín Botánico Sur, 1201 Ceiba St., Río Piedras, San Juan, PR 00926, USA
Interests: tropical soil ecology; biology and biogeochemistry; disturbance effects; wood and litter decay; role of soil organisms in ecosystem processes and functions
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Department of Forest Biomaterials, NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Interests: bioeconomy; evaluating alternative materials; sustainable manufacturing pathways and bio-based products

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Dipartimento Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali, Università degli Studi di Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro PD, Italy
Interests: forest mechanization and forest operations; precision forestry; forest and rural roads and forest and rural area accessibility; production processing for forest biomass and forest wood biofuels
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