
Antti Asikainen
Antti Asikainen is the
professor in forest technology (since 2001) in the Natural Resources Institute
Finland, LUKE (former Finnish Forest Research Institute, METLA). His research
areas are biomass availability and policy studies, wood harvesting technology
and logistics. He has been the National team leader of several tasks of IEA
Bioenergy (International Energy Agency) looking at the use of forest biomass
for energy production.
Asikainen is the member of the
Finnish Climate Change Panel (2016-2019) and he has contributed to several
bioenergy related policy briefs to National and EU’s decision makers.
Asikainen coordinates Boreal Green Bioeconomy programme in Luke. Previously he has been coordinating large forest bioenergy programmes (Bioenergy from forests 2007-2011, ForestEnergy2020 joint research programme (2012-2015). He coordinated EU’s FP7 project on the use of residual forest biomass for energy (INFRES) in 2011-2015. He was nominated in the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry in 2013.
Sessions auxquelles Antti Asikainen participe
- Dîner causerie - Transition énergétique finlandaise Hôtel Château Laurier Québec - Des Plaines ABC
- 12:30 PM - 1:55 PM | 1 heure 25 minutes