Faculty
![Ching-Hsun Huang](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_copy/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
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
Photo of Sailesh Adhikari
![Sailesh Adhikari](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_277717/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
Sailesh Adhikari
Postdoctoral Associate
540-231-7107
sailesh@vt.edu
Expertise:
Hardwood lumber manufacturing, cross-laminated timber (CLTs), hardwood CLTs, life cycle analysis, lean manufacturing, biomass gasification
![Brian Bond](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_277717_319239709/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
Brian Bond
Associate Dean for Extension, Outreach and Engagement
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
![Urs Buehlmann](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_277717_380528717/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
Urs Buehlmann
Professor
540-231-9759
buehlmann@vt.edu
Expertise: Manufacturing systems engineering, lean manufacturing, business benchmarking, competitive strategy, and globalization
![Robert Bush](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_277717_1739032535/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
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 . . .
Kevin J. Edgar
![Kevin Edgar](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_277717_2088723201/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
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 . . .
![Charles Frazier](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_277717_1572102210/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
Expertise: Lignocellulose chemistry, biomass rheology, composite materials, and surface chemistry and adhesion
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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 . . .
![Dan Hindman](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_277717_1446656982/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
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](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_277717_1573732372/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
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](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_277717_728233037/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
Wonjung Jung
Instructional Adjunct
540-231-7082
wonjung@vt.edu
Expertise: Graphic design, illustrator, and painting
![Young Kim](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_277717_280428013/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
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](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_277717_1890773059/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
Earl Kline
Professor
540-231-8841
kline@vt.edu
Expertise: Manufacturing systems engineering, continuous improvement technologies, lean manufacturing methods, production operations more . . .
![Joe Loferski](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_277717_796486847/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
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](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_277717_567897257/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
Eduardo Molina
Assistant Professor, 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 . . .
![Nicolas Navarro](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_277717_1372538306/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
Nicolas Navarro
Associate Director, Center for Packaging and Unit Load Design
540-231-0978
nico2710@vt.edu
CPULD
Expertise:
![Maren Roman](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_277717_821139873/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
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](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_277717_966495544/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
Jennifer Russell
Assistant Professor
540-231-9516
jdrussell@vt.edu
Expertise: Dynamic production-consumption systems for sustainable products and technologies, life-cycle impacts more . . .
Kiara Winans
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Kiara Winans
Collegiate Assistant Professor
540-231-0768
kiarawinans@vt.edu
Expertise: Industrial ecology, life-cycle assessment, social ecology.
![Paul Winistorfer](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_277717_1368462378/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
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](/content/sbio_vt_edu/en/our-people/faculty-directory/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_277717_1138847237/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/s-medium/image.jpg)
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 |
Robert Smith | rsmith4@vt.edu |
Marshall White | 540-231-7134 - mswhite@vt.edu |