Faculty of Sustainable Biomaterials
- Department Head and Professor
- 540-231-7100
- chinghuang@vt.edu
Economics of renewable energy, forest ecosystem services, carbon sequestration, optimal forest management, wildfire economics
- Director, CNRE Leadership Institute and Professor
- 540-231-8752
- bbond@vt.edu
Wood drying, wood processing and manufacturing, wood identification, performance of wood in use, wood flooring
- Managing Director, Center for Packaging and Unit Load Design
- 540-231-5370
- johnbouldin@vt.edu
Design of custom test protocols, design of custom test jig apparatuses, design of custom data collection spreadsheets, engineered wood products in residential construction, and residential property inspection
- Professor
- 540 231-9759
- buehlmann@vt.edu
Manufacturing systems engineering, lean manufacturing, business benchmarking, competitive strategy, and globalization
- Professor
- 540 231-8834
- rbush@vt.edu
Marketing, competitive strategy, capital budgeting and decision making, structural characteristics of the wood-based industries, and packaging as a marketing function
- Research Scientist
- 540 231-4403
- chengo@vt.edu
Wood drying specializing in wood vacuum drying, vacuum/steam phytosanitation and life cycle analysis of biomaterials and forest products
- Professor
- 540 231-0674
- kjedgar@vt.edu
Creation of drug delivery systems to meet patient needs, bioavailability enhancement, synthesis of novel polysaccharide derivatives, chemistry of cellulose and its derivatives, polysaccharide chemistry structure-property-performance relationships of biomaterials and derivatives, biomass conversion to high value biomaterials
- Professor
- 540 231-8318
- cfrazier@vt.edu
- WBC
Lignocellulose chemistry, biomass rheology, composite materials, and surface chemistry and adhesion
- Professor
- 540 231-2716
- himal@vt.edu
International marketing and trade, non-timber forest products utilization and marketing, forest-based economic development, packaging as a marketing function, certified forest products, and niche markets.
- Associate Professor
- 540-231-9442
- dhindman@vt.edu
Wood building design, mechanical properties of wood, stability of wood i-joists, torsional stiffness of wood members, and safety of wood structures during construction
- Director, Center for Packaging and Unit Load Design and Associate Professor
- 540-231-7673
- laszlo_horvath@vt.edu
- CPULD
Interactions between packaging, pallet, and material handling systems, computer modeling of the mechanical performance, pallet and container design, life cycle analysis, packaging dynamics, packaging distribution systems, biobased composities, and structural design
- Assistant Professor
- 540-231-1156
- ytkim@vt.edu
- Sustainable Packaging
Food packaging, development of sustainable (rigid/flexible) packaging, analytical packaging chemistry, pharmaceutical/ nutraceutical packaging, smart packaging (quality indicator system), development of lab on a chip using chemiluminescense, and sustainable materials and corrugated fiberboard packaging
- Professor
- 540-231-8841
- kline@vt.edu
Manufacturing systems engineering, continuous improvement technologies, lean manufacturing methods, production operations management, computer applications in manufacturing, and process automation and process control
- Professor
- 540-231-4405
- jlofersk@vt.edu
Wood engineering and structural design procedures, performance of wood and wood composites in buildings, moisture problems and wood deterioration in buildings, wood flooring, fasteners and connections, product design and development, and preservation of historic wood buildings
- Instructor, Packaging Systems and Design
- 540-231-8215
- molina@vt.edu
Packaging logistics, packaging design, supply chain management, continuous improvement, material handling, pallets, and packaging interactions, production and logistics optimization, and mechanical properties of corrugated fiberboard
- Associate Professor
- 540-231-0978
- quesada@vt.edu
Continuous improvement, organizational innovation, international marketing, supply chain management, and business process management
- Associate Professor
- 540- 231-1421
- maren.roman@vt.edu
Self-assembly and colloidal properties of cellulose nanocrystals, surface functionalization of cellulose nanocrystals, complexation of cellulose nanocrystals with polyelectrolytes, interactions of cellulose with proteins and cells, applications of cellulose nanocrystals in targeted drug delivery and tissue engineering, and enzymatic cellulose degradation in the bioethanol process
- Assistant Professor
- 540-231-9516
- jdrussell@vt.edu
Dynamic production-consumption systems for sustainable products and technologies, life-cycle impacts of value-retention processes, including remanufacturing, refurbishment, repair and reuse, market transformation strategies in support of circular economy and sustainability, value-chain, supply chain, and business model innovations for sustainability outcomes, social psychology, perceptions and attitudes towards sustainable products and technologies, socio-economic and techno-economic systems assessment, applied systems-perspectives to better inform market barriers assessments.
- Associate Dean for Engagement and Professor
- 540-231-7679
- rsmith4@vt.edu
Packaging as a marketing function, industrial marketing, personal selling, sales management, international marketing and strategic management
- Dean, College of Natural Resources and Environment
- 540-231-5481
- pwinisto@vt.edu
Densification in wood composites, wood performance in application, wood composites manufacture, testing and performance, and wood identification and use
- Associate Department Head and Professor
- 540-231-8820
- agzink@vt.edu
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 |