Department of Forest Biomaterials and Technology

The department carries out high-quality research as well as under- and postgraduate education on an international level. We collaborate with both society and industry to develop a bio-based economy where forest biomaterials are an important resource.

Education

Information about our undergraduate and postgraduate education.

Research

Information about our on-going and ended projekts, publications and what our research is about.

Our divisions

More about our four divisions within SBT: Forest operations, Wood science, Biomass Technology and Chemistry and Biomass Technology Centre.

Calendar

01 November 2022 Doctoral education
Statistics II: Experimental Design and ANOVA, 4 hp
The Ph.D. course will be given as a distance course from 1 November to 1 December 2022.
15 September 2022 Doctoral education Umeå
PhD-Course on Watershed Ecology and Biogeochemistry
This PhD course addresses the foundational concepts and modern challenges within the broad field ...
16 December 2022 Doctoral education Umeå
GIS-based decision support systems to minimise soil impacts in logging operations
Sima Mohtashami defends her thesis "GIS-based decision support systems to minimise soil impacts i...
16 December 2022 Doctoral education
Living through hard times: Dispose of or sequester? Plant subcellular strategies for stress resilience
Pernilla Elander defends her thesis "Living through hard times: Dispose of or sequester? Plant...
17 November 2022 Doctoral education
Genome Editing of Rapeseed using CRISPR/Cas9 for Reducing Antinutritional Compounds in the Seed Cake
Oliver Moss , Dept of Plant Breeding will give his half-time seminar
25 November 2022 Doctoral education Umeå
Land use change, tree cover, and livestock in miombo woodlands : interacting effects on soil carbon and hydrological properties
Lufunyo Lulandala defends his thesis "Land use change, tree cover, and livestock in miombo...
21 November 2022 Doctoral education Umeå
Carbon allocation in aspen trees
Sonja Viljamaa defends her thesis "Carbon allocation in aspen trees".
01 November 2022 Umeå
UPSC Seminar with Kaisa Nieminen
Novel prospects for birch genetics and breeding
18 November 2022 Doctoral education
Cellular mechanisms of plant tissue regeneration
Phanu Theodore Serivichyaswat defends his thesis "Cellular mechanisms of plant tissue regeneratio...
07 November 2022 Doctoral education
SILVA PhD course: Communicating Forests and Land-Use Research in Popular Science.
Popular science is about the way scientific research is interpreted and shared with a broad...

News

06 December 2022 Forest science
Biodiversity in focus for UN delegates and forest researchers
On 7-19 December governmental and organisational representatives meet at the UN conference COP15 ...
05 December 2022 Forest science
Boreal forests turn into a carbon sink within 10 years of clearcutting
Tree growth determines the forest carbon balance at the landscape level in northern managed...
02 December 2022 Forest management
Workshop on EU forest monitoring
February sees SLU hosting an international workshop focusing on future EU-wide forest monitoring.
25 November 2022 Forest science
Record year for grants for research on broadleaves and alternative silviculture
Climate change, environmental factors and multiple goals increase the demands on the Swedish...
24 November 2022 Forest science
New research grants for spruce breeding and mechanisms behind a cereal disease
Vahideh Rafiei and Malin Elfstrand have been awarded research grants from Formas' open call for...
17 November 2022 Forest science
Soil fungal conservation values and contributions to soil carbon dynamics
How fast soil organisms in boreal forests break down and store carbon has great significance for...

Published: 09 May 2023 - Page editor: malin.sandberg@slu.se

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