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"he transformation to a bioeconomy can only succeed with a far-reaching shift from the established value and growth orientation."

Prof. Dr. Klaus Richter

Head Wood Research Munich, Chair of Wood Science, Technical University of Munich

The most important stages of the career

since 2011 
Chair of Wood Economics and Head of TUM Research Laboratory Wood (Holzforschung München)

2002-2010 
Head of Wood Department, Empa, Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf (CH) 

1991-1992
Post Doc at the USDA Forest Product Laboratory, Madison WI

1987-2002  
Research Associate at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology Empa, Dübendorf (CH), Wood Division 

1988 
Doctorate in Wood Biology at the University of Hamburg

1984-1987 
Research assistant DFG project 'Development of a dendrochronological database for age determination of wood finds on the Iberian Peninsula' in Madrid 

1983 
Graduated with a diploma in Wood Economics from the University of Hamburg 

Activities and Memberships

2015-2020
Expert Council Bioeconomy Bavaria, StMELF, StMWI

since 2013
Member of the Scientific Advisory Council on Forest Policy of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection

since 2013
Editor-in-Chief Wood Science and Technology and European Journal of Wood and Wood Products

2012
Fellow International Association of Wood Scientists IAWS 

Awards

2006
Joseph-Umdasch Forschungspreis

2004
Collano Innovation Award 

1992

Wilhelm-Klauditz-Preis for wood research

1988

Dissertationspreis Verein Deutscher Holzeinfuhrhäuser

Biography

icated to one of the most multifaceted raw materials that has accompanied human history. As a materials scientist and teacher, he is concerned with understanding and promoting the potential of wood as a product of a multifunctional ecosystem in order to use it sustainably and with a high environmental and social value as an essential pillar of the bioeconomy.

Focus

  • Sustainable Ressource Management
  • Biogenic carbon in technosphere
  • Cascading, Circular economy

Future Challenges

  • Defossilisation of economy
  • Education for all 
  • Comprehensive change in values
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