Before his retirement, Peter Niemz was the Director of the Laboratory for Wood Physics and Non-Destructive Testing Methods and the Head of the Wood Physics group at ETH Zurich. Throughout his professional career he lectured on wood technology at TU Dresden, Universidad Austral de Chile and the University of Sopron. Since 2002 he is a Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science. He is on the editorial board of numerous wood related journals, including the European Journal of Wood and Wood Products. Alfred Teischinger is a retired Professor of Wood Technology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna. He also acted as scientific director of the competence centre for wood composites and wood chemistry (Wood Kplus). His research focus is wood technology and processing. He was board member of various organisations linking wood science and technology such as InnovaWood, and he was associated to the committee of the prestigious Marcus Wallenberg Prize.  Since 2013, he is a fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science and has been awarded with recognition of outstanding contribution to Wood Science. Dick Sandberg is Chaired Professor of Wood Science and Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, specialising in computed tomography for the use in wood industry, advanced information processing and wood communication from felling to finished product. He is Editor-in-Chief for the journal Wood Material Science and Engineering. He has a background as specialist and manager of several companies in the wood industry sphere and the former Swedish Institute of Wood Technology Research and was a national delegate of several COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology) Actions.