Faculty

Ching-Hsun Huang
Department Head and Professor
540-231-7100
chinghuang@vt.edu
Expertise: Economics of renewable energy, forest ecosystem services, carbon sequestration, optimal forest management, wildfire economics

Brian Bond
Director, CNRE Leadership Institute and Professor
540-231-8752
bbond@vt.edu
Expertise: Wood drying, wood processing and manufacturing, wood identification, performance of wood in use, wood flooring

John Bouldin
Managing Director, CPULD
540-231-5370
johnbouldin@vt.edu
CPULD
Expertise: Design of custom test protocols, design of custom test jig apparatuses, design of custom data collection spreadsheets, more . . .

Urs Buehlmann
Professor
540-231-9759
buehlmann@vt.edu
Expertise: Manufacturing systems engineering, lean manufacturing, business benchmarking, competitive strategy, and globalization

Robert Bush
Professor
540-231-8834
rbush@vt.edu
Expertise: Marketing, competitive strategy, capital budgeting and decision making, structural characteristics of the wood-based industries, more . . .

Zhangjing Chen
Research Scientist
540-231-4403
chengo@vt.edu
Expertise: Wood drying specializing in wood vacuum drying, vacuum/steam phytosanitation, and life cycle analysis of biomaterials more . . .

Kevin Edgar
Professor and Associate Dean, Graduate School
540-231-0674
kjedgar@vt.edu
Expertise: Creation of drug delivery systems to meet patient needs, bioavailability enhancement, synthesis of novel polysaccharide deriv., more . . .

Expertise: Lignocellulose chemistry, biomass rheology, composite materials, and surface chemistry and adhesion

A. L. (Tom) Hammett
Professor
540-231-2716
himal@vt.edu
Expertise: International marketing and trade, non-timber forest products utilization and marketing, forest-based economic development, more . . .

Daniel Hindman
Associate Professor
540-231-9442
dhindman@vt.edu
Expertise: Wood building design, mechanical properties of wood, stability of wood i-joists, torsional stiffness of wood members, more . . .

Laszlo Horvath
Associate Professor and Director, CPULD
540-231-7673
lhorvat@vt.edu
CPULD
Expertise: Interactions between packaging, pallet, and material handling systems, computer modeling of the mechanical performance, more . . .

Wonjung Jung
Instructional Adjunct
540-231-7082
wonjung@vt.edu
Expertise: Graphic design, illustrator, and painting

Young Kim
Associate Professor
540-231-1156
ytkim@vt.edu
Expertise: Food packaging, development of sustainable (rigid/flexible) packaging, analytical packaging chemistry, smart packaging more . . .

Earl Kline
Professor
540-231-8841
kline@vt.edu
Expertise: Manufacturing systems engineering, continuous improvement technologies, lean manufacturing methods, production operations more . . .

Joe Loferski
Professor
540-231-4405
jlofersk@vt.edu
Expertise: Wood engineering and structural design procedures, performance of wood and wood composites in buildings, more . . .

Eduardo Molina
Instructor, Packaging Systems and Design
540-231-8215
molina@vt.edu
CPULD
Expertise: Packaging logistics, packaging design, supply chain management, continuous improvement, material handling, pallets, more . . .

Expertise: Continuous improvement, organizational innovation, international marketing, supply chain management, more . . .

Maren Roman
Associate Professor
540-231-1421
maren.roman@vt.edu
Expertise: Self-assembly and colloidal properties of cellulose nanocrystals, surface functionalization of cellulose nanocrystals, more . . .

Jennifer Russell
Assistant Professor
540-231-9516
jdrussell@vt.edu
Expertise: Dynamic production-consumption systems for sustainable products and technologies, life-cycle impacts more . . .

Robert Smith
Associate Dean for Engagement and Professor
540-231-7679
rsmith4@vt.edu
Center for Forest Products Business
Expertise: Packaging as a marketing function, industrial marketing, personal selling, sales mgmt, international marketing and strategic management

Paul Winistorfer
Dean, College of Natural Resources and Environment
540-231-5481
pwinisto@vt.edu
Expertise: Densification in wood composites, wood performance in application, wood composites manufacture, testing and performance, more . . .

Audrey Zink-Sharp
Associate Department Head and Professor
540-231-8820
agzink@vt.edu
Expertise: Quantitative wood anatomy, micro-mechanics, video microscopy for strain measurement, forest ecological disturbances and wood anatomy
Professor Emeriti | |
Wolfgang Glasser | 804-320-0456 - wglasser@vt.edu |
Fred Lamb | fml195@vt.edu |
Marshall White | 540-231-7134 - mswhite@vt.edu |
Adjunct Faculty | |
Philip Araman | Forest Service - 540-231-5341 - paraman@vt.edu |
Jim Chamberlain | Forest Service - 540-231-3611 - jchamberlain@fs.fed.us |
Jeremy Madden | Virginia Tech Lecturer and Researcher, GMIT Letterfrack, Ireland |
Al Schuler | 304-431-2727 |
Frank Woeste | 540-951-0469 - fwoeste@vt.edu |