Future of Forestry and Wood Science in changing world

Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences CZU Prague

Prague, Kamycka 129

Czech Republic

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The Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences (FFWS) will pay for accommodation* and meals for the invited guests (Dean, Director and/or Deputy) from 14 to 17 March, 2019.

*The accomodation will be booked by the FFWS with the agreed hotel (you will get more information before the event). Accompanying persons will pay accommodation by themselves. 

The conference is without participation fee.

Hynek Burda

Professor of zoology at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences

Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Czech Rep.,

Professor emeritus at the Faculty of Biology, University Duisburg-Essen in Essen, Germany,

Visiting professor at the Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in ČeskéBudějovice, Czech Rep.

Burda belongs to pioneers of multi- and interdisciplinary research of subterranean mammals, particularly African mole-rats, sensory ecology of mammals with a particular focus on hearing and magnetoreception. He profiled himself also as an anatomist and evolutionary biologist. He is author and coauthor of numerous scientific papers as well as German university textbooks on general zoology, systematic zoology, evolutionary biology, and human biology and a book on African mole-rats. In his current research he focuses on sensory ecology of dogs as well as game and wild animals.

Bill Hansson

Professor Bill Hansson (born on 12 January 1959, married, two children) is active at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (Germany) in the position of the Director of the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology. He is one of the leading researchers in the area of chemical ecology and neurology of insects, insect communication processes at functioning gene levels, and insect proteomics. Since the late 1980s, he has been carrying out long-term top-level innovative research. He specialises in his studies in the insect orders of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, namely in their connection with forestry as well as agriculture. He uses the Diptera order in his research as a model group for performing genetically manipulated experiments in the area of neurobiology. The issues of development of new plant protection measures against pathogenic insects are closely related to the above mentioned topics. 

Andrew Liebhold

Research Entomologist, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Service, Morgantown, USA

Research Leader, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

Liebhold's research primarily focuses on the ecology of forest insect invasions. This work includes both studies of invasion pathways, population dynamics of newly founded populations, spread of invading populations and the ecological and economic impacts of invasions Liebhold seeks to apply scientific knowledge of invasions to develop more efficient approaches to managing invasions.

Petr Horáček

Professor of wood processing at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Czech Rep.,

Head of Department of Wood Formation and Biomass Allocation at the Global Change Research Institute CAS, Brno, Czech Rep.

His research interest is in performance analyze of forest-based sector in perspective of global change. He assesses scenarios for the availability of timber under changing climatic conditions. He studies the forest ability to adapt to climatic change and to contribute to its mitigation as well as its role in providing raw materials for bio-based society. His current research couples wood science, wood processing, tree ecophysiology and tree biomechanics. The main topic there are the mechanisms of adjustments that help tress to acclimate to drought stress and to mitigate climatic change.