The Marcus Wallenberg Prize Symposium
The Power of Forest Sector Modelling in Times of Changes
November 14, 2023, 09.00-12.30 CEST
Welcome to the Marcus Wallenberg Prize Symposium
The 2023 Marcus Wallenberg Prize is awarded to Drs Darius Adams, Joseph Buongiorno, and Richard Haynes for their original and groundbreaking development of the forest sector economic models TAMM and PAPYRUS and its extension to the global forest products model GFPM. Their work laid the foundation for the development of global forest sector modelling and numerous national and regional forest sector models from the 1980s and onwards.
Very welcome!
Marcus Wallenberg,
Chairman of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
Event details
Date: November 14, 2023, at 09.00-12.30 CEST
The digital symposium attendance is free of charge and open for everyone.
Registration to be made by November 13, 2023.
A recording of the symposium will be distributed to registered persons after the event.
The Marcus Wallenberg Prize
The purpose of the Prize is to recognize, encourage and stimulate pathbreaking scientific achievements which contribute significantly to broadening knowledge and to technical development within the fields of importance to forestry and forest industries.
Learn more: mwp.org
Prof. Darius Adams,
USA, co-recipient of the 2023 Marcus Wallenberg Prize, Oregon State University
Prof. Joseph Buongiorno,
USA, co-recipient of the 2023 Marcus Wallenberg Prize, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Richard W. Haynes,
USA, co-recipient of the 2023 Marcus Wallenberg Prize, US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR, USA.
Agenda
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Agenda
Moderator: Prof. Orlando Rojas, Member of the Prize Selection Committee, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Mr. Marcus Wallenberg,
Chairman of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
Ioncell and Its Possible Place in the Textile Industry Given the Particular Challenges of Climate Change
Prof. Herbert Sixta,
Austria, co-recipient of the 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Viable Fibre Raw-materials and Their Impacts on Dissolution of Cellulose for Man-made Fibre Spinning
Dr. Frank Meister,
TITK, Thuringian Institute for Textile and Plastics Research, Rudolstadt, Germany
Announcement of Winner of the Young Researchers’ 3MT presentations
Prof. Joris Van Acker,
Member of the Prize Selection Committee, Ghent University, Belgium
Break 1 hour
For participants at Grand Hotel: YOUNG RESEARCHERS’ POSTER SESSION
For participants online: Break
H&M Group Circular Innovation Lab – Future Material Need in the Textile Industry
Mr. Martin Ekenbark,
Lead – Circular Innovation Lab, H&M Group, Stockholm, Sweden
The New EU Textiles Strategy and Its Impact on Wood-based Textiles
Director Dirk Vantyghem,
EURATEX, Brussels, Belgium
Technoeconomics and Scale-up
CEO Niklas von Weymarn,
Metsä Spring Oy, Helsinki, Finland
Questions and Answers
Speakers interact with the audience
For more information
Shiva Telavari, Executive Assistant of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
Mail: shiva.telavari@mwp.org Tel: +46 72 5725850.