Laboratory of Wood Technology (UGent-Woodlab)
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News
| 03/11/2020 | Victor Mihaila joins UGent-Woodlab. |
| 25/09/2020 | Romain & Julie leave the lab. All the best. |
| 01/09/2020 | Wannes Hubau joins UGent-Woodlab. Welcome back. |
| 06/07/2020 | Toon Gheyle joins UGent-Woodlab |
| 25/06/2020 | The KIKS project wins Queen Paola prize |
| 05/03/2020 | dr. Wannes Hubau on the fate of rainforests in Nature |
| 14/01/2020 | dr. Tom De Mil in the New Yorker. What a return to UGent-Woodlab |
Beste Piet, UGent-Woodlab zal je missen! Hartelijk dank voor alles, het ga je goed op pensioen en tot in den draai.
Mission statement
This research group is part of the department of Environment, situated at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University, Belgium. UGent-Woodlab is also part of the research platforms Natural Capital and Green Chemistry, and the UGent IOF consortia HyCT, Composites, DuraBUILDmaterials and End-Of-Waste.
The research group UGent-Woodlab is headed by Prof. Joris Van Acker and Prof. Jan Van den Bulcke, consists of 10 PhD students and a support technical staff of two people. UGent-Woodlab acquired over 40 years of experience in scientific and technological research on wood and maintains close contacts with all segments of the wood-processing industry and research groups involved in the forestry-wood chain.
The laboratory has elaborated its research activities in different research domains under 3 major headings:
(1) Structure
comprising activities on wood biology, wood quality, wood and tree properties, tree ring analysis both for temperate and tropical regions.
(2) Service life
dealing with biological durability, wood modification, wood preservating, coatings and service life predicting.
(3) Forest products
with a link to processing and industrial products both as materials (sawn timber, wood based panels, pulp and paper, etc) and as bioenergy.