PhD student Positions in Wood Products Engineering (WPE)

Wood products engineering comprises research and development of wood products in an empirical, verified model world in which the end-user’s products requirements are integrated with material properties and manufacturing processes.

LTU Wood Science and Technology currently conducts world-leading research, development and implementation of the innovation system: forest to sawmill products. The research topic WPE connect to it and lead the technical development of wood industry value-chain processes further to end customers.

The topic includes research in a virtual wood-value-chain to develop integrated wood industry processes. Our goal is to develop a Real-Virtual-Reality concept that is working in the industrial context, based on real multi-dimensional data.

Based on the expertise in the fields of, wood-metrics, multi-dimensional process modeling / simulation and visualization of industrial processes, the following tasks is performed: Modeling and Simulations Models created from image-based measurement information in real-time perspectives gathered from research and industrial applications. Optimization of Virtual Environments Develop models for serious gaming, industrial systems and R & D applications for wood industrial processes.

PhD Student Position 1
Will be working in a project which aims to develop:
- Measurement technology for the wood industry
- Current models to include end-user products and functional needs.
- CAE tools in a virtual wood value chain

PhD Student Position 2
Development of tools for product and process development based on:
- Modeling and Simulations based on multi-dimensional measurement information with real-time perspectives gathered from research and industrial applications.
- Optimization of Virtual Environments. In collaboration with other research areas develop serious gaming, industrial systems and R & D applications for wood industrial processes.