LFPDC Faculty and Staff
LFPDC Faculty
Cornelis F. "Niels" de Hoop is an Associate Professor in the Louisiana Forest Products Development Center at the LSU Ag Center, where he has worked since 1992. Prior to obtaining his PhD at Texas A&M, he worked 12 years in the forest products industry, mostly in logging supervision, timber procurement, and log yards, in Canada and east Texas. He also has two years of experience in government forestry in Kentucky (USFS) and Hawaii (state). He has an MBA from Stephen F. Austin and a BS in Forestry from Kentucky. At LSU, he teaches courses in timber harvesting, procurement and GIS. His research activities have included expert systems for veneer lathe diagnosis, assessment of cut-to-length harvesting, stormwater runoff from log yards, wood supply for chip mill, wood residue supply and demand, accidents in the forest products industry, and biomass energy.
Expertise: Worker accidents and safety, environmental aspects of wood products processing, wood residue utilization and operations research/expert systems/GIS applications to the forest products industry.
Room 136
School of Renewable Natural Resources Bldg
Phone: (225) 578-4242
E-mail: cdehoop@lsu.edu
Dr. de Hoop's webpage
Rich Vlosky is Director of the Louisiana Forest Products Development Center and Professor of Forest Products Marketing. He received a Ph.D. in Wood Products Marketing at Penn State University, a Masters Degree in International Forest Products Trade from the University of Washington and a Bachelors Degree in Natural Resources and Forest Management from Colorado State University. His research includes Forest Certification, Internet Business, and International and Domestic Market and Economic Development. Dr. Vlosky has spent his 29-year academic and working career in the wood products industry. He has over 300 publications and 350 national and international public presentations. Dr. Vlosky previously was: Vice President Sales and Marketing Optical Data Systems, Inc.,
Expertise: Domestic and international wood products marketing; technology applications to improve wood products business competitiveness; marketing applications to economic development; environmental certification and marketing; value-added product opportunities.
Room 120
School of Renewable Natural Resources Bldg
Phone: (225) 578-4527
E-mail: rvlosky@agcenter.lsu.edu
Qinglin Wu holds the Roy O. Martin Sr. endowed Professorship in Composites/Engineered Wood Products at the Louisiana Forest Products Development Center, School of Renewable Natural Resources. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Forest Products from Oregon State University, a Master of Eng. Sci. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia, and a B.S. degree in Agricultural Engineering from Henan Agricultural University, China. His research emphases include wood/natural fiber polymer composites, biomaterials from natural polymers, composite durability and engineering performance, and nano-composite materials. Dr. Wu has received numerous honors and awards including 2009 LSU AgCenter Rogers Excellence in Research Award, 2008 Sigma Delta Gamma Honor Society Research Award, Fellow for International Academy of Wood Science, Markwardt Wood Engineering Award for Excellence in Wood Engineering Research and Wood Award for Excellence in Graduate Research, and Visiting Professorship from Several Universities in China. He has served on various committees and panels for professional societies and government agencies. Dr. Wu’s research is published in over 200 technical papers in journals, books, and proceedings. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Louisiana Board of Regents, USDA National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP), USDA/DOE Biomass Research Program, and wood-products industry. Dr. Wu teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in the School of Renewable Natural Resources. These courses include Wood Science and Forest Products, Wood Composite Manufacturing, and Wood/Wood Composite Mechanics.
Expertise: wood/natural fiber polymer composites, biomaterials from natural polymers, composite durability and engineering performance, and nano-composite materials
Room 107
School of Renewable Natural Resources Bldg
Phone: (225) 578-8369
E-mail: qwu@agcenter.lsu.edu
Dr. Wu's RNR webpage