IRG Notice Board
Research Professor: Wood Science & Technology and Director: Forestry Centre of Excellence
Based in UniSA STEM at the Mount Gambier campus
Full-time, five (5) year fixed term contract
Starting salary: $204,128 per annum (plus 17% superannuation)
Reporting to the Dean of Research, you will be a leading and internationally recognised expert, who will lead the new Forestry Centre of Excellence (FCoE) in Mount Gambier, to advance innovative research on wood resources and wood-based products, with a focus on interdisciplinary collaborations within the University, with national and international research institutions, and industry. You will exemplify the highest level of performance and leadership and will continue to make distinguished, internationally recognised contributions to research.
Essential Skills and Experience
A PhD with an outstanding international record of research achievement in Wood Science and Technology
Demonstrated success at creating and leading a high-performing, inter-disciplinary and productive research, or industry teams
Significant collaboration with national and international stakeholders coupled with demonstrated development of partnerships between academia, industry, government, the community, and the profession
Sustained levels of diversified research and development income from nationally and internationally competitive funding schemes
Evidence of significant citation indices together with a solid record as a principal supervisor of successful HDR student completions
Ability to teach courses at university level, including general wood science and wood quality, wood technology, wood industrial manufacturing, wood-based materials, and engineered wood products
Applications close: 11:30pm Thursday 18 April 2024
For more information and/or to appy CLICK HERE
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Wood & Fire Safety 2024
10th International Scientific Conference
Hotel Patria
Strbske Pleso, The High Tatras, Slovakia
May 12-15, 2024
The International Scientific Conference Wood & Fire Safety 2024 is a traditional meeting of fire protection experts and specialists who prefer wood and wood-based materials. This is now the 10th conference being held at the usual place - the Patria Hotel, Štrbské Pleso in the High Tatras - and follows the established traditions of a four-year interval and an abundant programme. These traditions were established 30 years ago in 1988. Since the first conference more than 600 participants have taken part in the conference, of which 220 were international attendees. The regular participants of the conference include delegates from outside European Union countries, mainly from Canada, USA, New Zealand, Australia and Japan. There is also a large representation of other European states.
The aim of the conference is to bring new insights to this multi-disciplinary business field and increase the focus on forest fires, wood fires and new regulations, especially Eurocodes - Eurocode 5 - which deals with wooden construction and new wood in historic buildings. We believe that your participation will contribute to the quality of this tenth follow-up of the Wood & Fire Safety Conference (Wood and Fire Safety).
To learn more click here and/or click here.
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The 11th European Conference on Wood Modification (ECWM11) will take place in Firenze, Italy on April 15-16, 2024.
It is now 20 years since the first European Conference on Wood Modification took place in Ghent in 2003. Since then, there have been many advances in the area of wood modification and the market for commercial modified wood products has expanded. In this conference, we will explore how modified wood products might contribute to the development of a more resource efficient future providing new challenges and opportunities to mitigate climate change.
The conference will be co-organized by the Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI) of the University of Florence, the Institute for Bio-Economy (IBE) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and the School of Agriculture, Forest, Food and Environmental Sciences (SAFE) of the University of Basilicata. The conference is also supported by the Wood Value Chain division of the Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF).
Key-dates are reported in the attached announcement. Further information, the official website and the registration fees will be available soon.
Looking forward to meet you in Firenze next spring
Giacomo Goli (Chair of Local Organizing Committee)
Holger Militz (Chair of Scientific Committee)
To read more click here.
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The Congress Scientific Committee (CSC) is pleased to announce that the Call for Abstracts for IUFRO2024 the XXVI IUFRO Congress in Stockholm, Sweden, 23 – 29 June 2024, is open and welcomes submissions of abstracts for presentations in sub-plenary, technical and poster sessions.
To submit your abstract, please take the following steps:
Consult the list of sessions at Call for Congress Abstract | IUFRO Stockholm 2024
Submit your abstract at Abstract Submission | IUFRO 2024
There are two sessions planned relevant to wood protection:
Session T2.20: Novel treatments for wood and biobased products.
Session T2.35: Wood durability and wood protection strategies for long-term carbon storage of wood products.
To read more details on these two Sessions please click here.
Abstracts will be accepted until 15 June 2023. Authors will be informed if their presentation is accepted by 30 October 2023. In order to remain in the programme, the registration deadline for Presenting Authors of accepted abstracts is 15 January 2024.
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