Ph.D. supervisor, Chief Scientist of the Chinese Academy of Forestry, President of the Research Institute of National Bamboo Industry.

Prof. Yu Wenji is also the President of National Innovation Alliance for Scrimber Industry, the President of Scrimber and Its Products Branch, and the Director of Expert Committee of Green Home Branch and the Deputy Director of Standardization Technical Committee of China National Forest Products Industry Association. In addition, he serves the China Society of Forestry as the Deputy Director of Biomass Materials Branch.

Prof. Yu Wenji has been engaged in the field of bamboo (wood) scrimber materials for 30 years, innovating in the application of basic theory and methods of the reorganization of the material preparation, breaking through the reorganization of high-performance materials and efficient use of key technologies, constructing scrimber technology and standard system, and vigorously promoting the transformation and upgrading of timber industry in China from the traditional wood-based panel products to up-market and high-performance scrimber materials, leading the field of scrimber material of our country from technology and equipment to product development and application to the international leading position. He took a leading role in more than 40 national, provincial and ministerial projects. He published about 286 academic articles accounting for 42% paper in global scrimber material field. He has also obtained 109 authorized patents, 42 invention patents, and one international patent, accounting for 10.11% of global patents in the field of scrimber material, and ranks the first in the world as patentees. He led the development of 12 standards in the field of scrimber materials.

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