Michael Jenke’s successful doctoral defense on Community Forestry in Thailand

Michael Jenke successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Enabling effective community forestry through a national co-management program: The case of Thailand’s community forestry program” on March 7th, 2022. Michael’s project was supervised by Prof. Jürgen Pretzsch (Chair of Tropical and International Forestry, TU Dresden), Prof. Uta Berger (Chair of Forest Biometrics and Systems Analysis, TU

Doctoral defense of Dr. Beatus John Temu – contribution to the WoodCluster Project Tanzania

On November 5th 2021, Dr. Beatus John Temu defended his doctoral thesis titled “Exploration of the Tanzanian forest sector contribution to national economy: Micro, meso and macro level analysis”. His doctoral thesis contributes significantly to the on-going WoodCluster project, particularly in enhancing the understanding of Tanzania’s forest and wood cluster. He sought to understand the

Successful hybrid doctoral defense of Busha Teshome on cluster analysis for forest and wood-processing industry sector development in Ethiopia

On September 29th 2021, Busha Teshome Tolera from Ethiopia successfully defended his doctoral defense. Busha conducted his research on “Cluster analysis for forest and wood-processing industry sector development in Ethiopia“, which contributed to the WoodCluster project.

Tran Van Hiep’s successful doctoral defense on small bamboo enterprises in Vietnam

In the morning of May 19th, 2021, Tran Van Hiep successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled “Key Factors Affecting Small Bamboo Enterprises Upgrading in North Vietnam: Case Studies from Chuong My, Hanoi and Thanh Hoa Province”. Hiep’s research was supervised by Prof. Pretzsch (Chair of Tropical and International Forestry, TU Dresden), Prof. Darr (Faculty of Life Sciences, Rhein-Waal University

Successful doctoral defense of La Thi Tham on Acacia hybrid value chains in Vietnam

On Monday, April 19th 2021, La Thi Tham successfully defended her doctoral thesis titled “A transition towards higher value uses of natural-resource based products: Case study of value chains and impacts on rural livelihoods of Acacia hybrid timber in Central Vietnam”. With Summa Cum Laude, Tham has performed an outstanding defense and overall research work!

First MSc thesis within the FLOURISH project completed

Hi everyone. I am Ta Quoc Truong – a now-former Master student in Tropical Forestry at TU Dresden. In this summer semester, I conducted my research on lung bamboo (Bambusa longissima sp.nov) – an endemic bamboo species in my country – Vietnam. My research took place within the FLOURISH project. Lung bamboo is a clump-type bamboo species