Postgarduate opportunities

Currently we are particularly interested in:

• Phenotyping radiata pine for pulp and bioenergy relevant wood quality traits
• Quality control of naturally durable timber through grading
• Utilisation of high-density timber by-products
• Relationship between soil properties and drying defects of eucalypts
• Controlling starch content of sapwood to improve borer resistance
• NZ’s perception to preservative treated timber
• Wood properties of NZ native timbers
• Understanding self-pruning (cladoptosis) in trees (reducing knots in timber)
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Contact: Clemens Altaner

Honours, Master and PhD projects are available. Current research topics are:

• Economically and environmentally sustainable engineered wood product development
• Natural disaster-resilient timber building systems
• Long-term structural behaviour of long-span timber-based floor systems
• Small-scale engineered wood product manufacturing
• Mass timber connection design for structural performance, durability, disassembly, and adaptability. 
  

Contact

Hyungsuk Thomas Lim