Klaus Richter
German university professor emeritus and wood scientist
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Klaus Richter (born in 1957) is a German wood scientist and professor emeritus at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), who is an honorary fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science,[1] editor-in-chief in the scientific journals, Wood Science and Technology and European Journal of Wood and Wood Products,[2][3] and also, a member of the German Bioeconomy Council.[4]
1957 (age 68–69)
Klaus Richter | |
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| Born | Klaus Richter 1957 (age 68–69) |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
| Known for | Wood adhesion technologies, Life cycle assessment, Wood cascading use |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Wood science and technology Bioeconomy |
| Institutions | Technical University of Munich EMPA |
Research career
Richter studied wood science at the University of Hamburg, earning his university diploma (Dipl.) in 1983. He completed a doctoral project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) on dendrochronology in the Iberian Peninsula, graduating in 1988.[5] He spent one year for his post-doctoral research at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
From 1987 to 2002, he was a research associate at EMPA, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. Between 2003 and 2011, he headed EMPA's Wood Department and also lectured at the ETH Zurich.[6]
In April 2011, Richter was appointed full professor of wood science at Technical University of Munich (TUM) and became, in 2012, head of the university's, Wood Research Laboratory,[5][7] coordinating since then several PhD works in the area of wood sciences.[8] He retired from this position in October 2023.[9]
Recognition
The research work of Richter and his coworkers, has received international recognition in the area of wood science and technology.[5] At Scopus, his published work has received over 5,000 citations.
Richter has been editor-in-chief of the journals Wood Science and Technology and European Journal of Wood and Wood Products, both published by Springer Nature.[10][11]
His research encompasses the elucidation of structure-property relationships[12] in wood to enhance adhesion, coating, and modification technologies, also focusing on the sustainability of wood and building industry processes, climate efficiency through modeling and transforming cascading and end-of-life processes.[13][5][14]