Klaus Richter
{{Short description|German university professor emeritus and wood scientist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Klaus Richter
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| birth_name = Klaus Richter
| birth_date = 1957
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| nationality = German
| fields = Wood science and technology
Bioeconomy
| workplaces = Technical University of Munich
EMPA
| alma_mater = University of Hamburg
| known_for = Wood adhesion technologies, Life cycle assessment, Wood cascading use
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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 a honorary fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science,{{cite web |title=Fellows - The International Academy of Wood Science |url=https://www.iaws-web.org/fellows--dues/ |website=IAWS |access-date=2025-05-10}} editor-in-chief in the scientific journals, Wood Science and Technology and European Journal of Wood and Wood Products,{{cite web | title=European Journal of Wood and Wood Products | website=SpringerLink | url=https://link.springer.com/journal/107/editorial-board | access-date=2025-05-11}}{{cite web | title=Wood Science and Technology | website=SpringerLink | url=https://link.springer.com/journal/226/editorial-board | access-date=2025-05-11}} and also, a member of the German Bioeconomy Council.{{cite web | title= Members of the German Bioeconomy Council| url=https://www.biooekonomierat.de/media/pdf/praesentationen/2022-10-05_BirdLife_NABU_final.pdf?m=1665142002& | access-date=2025-05-11}}
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. He spent one year for his post-doc research at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
From 1987 to 2002, he served as 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.{{cite web | title=The "Wood" laboratory has a new head | website=604 - Communication | date=2002-12-18 | url=https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/the-wood-laboratory-has-a-new-head | access-date=2025-05-11}}
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",{{cite web | title=Technical University of Munich (TUM) | website=ResearchGate | url=https://www.researchgate.net/lab/Klaus-Richter-Lab | access-date=2025-05-11}} coordinating since then several PhD works in the area of wood sciences.{{cite web | title=PhD Finalization Projects at Wood Research | website=Holzforschung München | date=2019-10-22 | url=https://www.ls.tum.de/en/hfm/news/article/phd-finalization-projects-at-wood-research/ | access-date=2025-05-11}} He eventually retired from this position in October 2023.{{cite web | title=Team | website=Chair of Architecture and Timber Construction | url=https://www.arc.ed.tum.de/en/holz/research/tum/team/ | access-date=2025-05-11}}
Recognition
The research work of Richter and his coworkers, has received international recognition in the area of wood science and technology.{{cite web |title=Prof. Dr. Klaus Richter - TUM Professoren |url=https://www.professoren.tum.de/en/richter-klaus |website=Technical University of Munich |access-date=2025-05-10}} At Scopus, his published work -until May 2025- has received over 5,000 citations.
Richter also has served as editor-in-chief of the journals Wood Science and Technology and European Journal of Wood and Wood Products, both published by Springer Nature.{{cite web |title=Editorial board |url=https://link.springer.com/journal/226/editorial-board |website=Springer |access-date=2025-05-10}}{{cite web | title=Cascading Wood Use: Boosting Resource Efficiency Explained | website=Innovations Report | date=2017-12-11 | url=https://www.innovations-report.com/agriculture-environment/agricultural-and-forestry-science/cascading-use-is-also-beneficial-for-wood/ | access-date=2025-05-11}}
His yearlong research encompasses the elucidation of structure-property relationships 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.{{cite web | title=Klaus Richter – Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering | website=Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering | url=https://wsenetwork.org/category/klaus-richter/ | access-date=2025-05-11}}{{cite web | title=New potentials of a traditional raw material | website=TUM School of Life Sciences | date=2021-09-20 | url=https://www.ls.tum.de/en/ls/public-relations/news/news-detail/article/new-potentials-of-a-traditional-raw-material-the-future-of-wood-utilization/ | access-date=2025-05-11}}
External links
- [https://www.professoren.tum.de/en/richter-klaus Academic website]
- [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Klaus-Richter ResearchGate]
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Category:Fellows of the International Academy of Wood Science