Ning Yan

Professor Ning Yan is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Bioproducts. She also holds a University of Toronto Distinguished Professorship in Forest Biomaterials Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry with a cross appointment to John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. She was also an Endowed Chair in Value Added Wood and Composites in the Faculty of Forestry previously. Professor Yan has disseminated more than 300 publications, including more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals. She is an international expert on forest biomaterial science, bio-based products, and polymer adhesives and resins; and has won numerous prestigious awards for her teaching and research excellence, including the Bill Burgess Teaching Award, Early Researcher Award, and NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements Award. She is a fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. Dr. Yan is the Director of the Low Carbon Renewable Materials Centre at the University of Toronto

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