Laboratory of Wood Technology (UGent-Woodlab)
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News
| 01/07/2022 | Pierre Kibleur won the best student poster award at ICTMS2022. Congrats Pierre! |
| 28/06/2022 | Stijn Willen recognized for this re-naturing efforts at Campus Coupure. Way to go Stijn! |
| 23/05/2022 | Inaugural lesson by Wannes Hubau |
| 26/04/2022 | Xiuping Jiang wins special presentation prize on ECWM10. Congratulations Xiuping! |
| 09/12/2021 | Prof. dr. ir. Em. Jef Schalk passed away on the 9th of December. An In Memoriam by Hans Beeckman. |
| 16/10/2021 | Tom De Mil left UGent-Woodlab and is now professor at ULiège. Congrats Tom. |
| 08/10/2021 | Bhély Angoboy Ilondea obtains his PhD. Congrats Bhély! |
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, Prof. Jan Van den Bulcke and Prof. Wannes Hubau, consists of ~11 PhD students and a support technical staff of two people. UGent-Woodlab acquired over 50 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 preservation, 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.