17:00 Finger foods and beverage options to be provided
8:00 Registration open
9:00 Welcome (Kirsi Mikkonen and Orlando Rojas)
9:10 Hongmei Gu (US Department of Agriculture)
Life cycle assessement (LCA) of lignocellulosic material and the effect of biodiversity
9:35 Mari Kallioinen (LUT University, Finland)
Valorization of side streams
10:00 Joseph Samec (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Lignin valorization towards a real biomass feedstock
Coffee break
10:20 Monika Österberg (Aalto University, Finland)
Development of new sustainable materials using polymers derived from lignin, cellulose and hemicelluloses
10:45 Yuanyuan Li (KTH, Sweden)
Wood biocomposites as functional materials
11:10 Alain Dufresne (Grenoble INP, France)
Processing of cellulose reinforced polymer nanocomposites
11:35 Mario Culebras Rubio (University of Valencia, Spain)
Lignin micro/nanoparticles for the encapsulation of agrochemical products
12:00 Lunch – buffet served upstairs
13:00 Yoshiharu Nishiyama (CNRS, France)
Crystallography of polysaccharides: Current state and challenges
13:25 Hugh O´Neill (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
Neutron scattering techniques
13:50 Jakob Wohlert (KTH, Sweden)
Simulation of water, hydrogen bonding in cellulose
13:50 Alistair King (VTT - Finland)
NMR
Coffee break
15:10 Lennart Bergstrom (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Bio-based and waste-based materials
15:35 Svitlana Filonenko (MPI, Germany)
Sustainable Solvents for Green Processes
16:00 Posters and refreshments
18:30 Evening: Networking dinner
9:00 Ilkka Kilpeläinen (UH, Finland)
Ionic liquids
9:25 Kai Zhang (University of Göttingen, Germany)
Wood technology and wood-based Composites
9:50 Jaana Vapaavuori (Aalto - Finland)
TBD
Coffee break
10:35 Maurice Collins (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Biobased polymers for biomedical applications
11:00 Irina Smirnova (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)
Biomedical applications of aerogels
11:25 TBD
TBD
12:00 Lunch – buffet served upstairs
13:00 Spinnova (Shahriare Mahmood)
13:15 LignoPure (Wienke Reynolds)
13:30 Panel Discussion - Research and innovation to tackle sustainability challenges
Panel: Shahriare Mahmood, Wienke Reynolds, Orlando Rojas
14:00 Posters and refreshments
15:30 Address from conference organizing team
15:40 Poster Award - Organizing committee
15:50 Announcement of the next conference – Liangbing Hu
16:00 Closing remarks – Kirsi Mikkonen