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From Wood to Wonder – Turning wood into advanced materials

For centuries, we’ve known how to make paper from wood.Who…
All participants at the Nanochemistry Camp in Iseo, Italy, 2025. Photo by Federico Sbardolini

A Week to Remember at the Nanochemistry Camp in Italy

“It was an amazing mix of lectures, nature, and great people.” Exploring…
RISE Piteå Advisory Bord Meeting sepember 2025Irina Iakovleva

Bio4Energy Advisory Board Meeting in Piteå

On 8–9 September, Bio4Energy’s Advisory Board gathered at…

Cleaner cooking and sustainable bioenergy systems can strengthen energy security and improve health in sub-Saharan Africa

Doctoral research explores new links between energy, health…
Happy Midsummer

2024 Bio4Energy Annual Report Is Out

The 2024 Bio4Energy Annual Report is now available on our website. The…

Bio4Energy Gathers in Luleå to Strengthen Collaboration and Share Research Progress

Bio4Energy researchers came together in Luleå on 26–27 May…
From left: Lina Hällström, Roberts Joffe, Ivan Carabante, and Linn Berglund at the Jubileumsfonden award ceremony on 14 May 2025 at Vetenskapens hus in Luleå. They had just received their research grants from the fund. Photo: Petra Älvstrand.

Transforming Forest Residues into the Future: Bio4Energy Researcher Awarded Prestigious Grant

Linn Berglund, senior lecturer in wood and bionanocomposites…
Katarzyna Olovsson and her doctoral research on fossil-free lime production. The photo collage shows Jutjärn limestone quarry in Dalarna, Sweden, and her dissertation defence at Umeå University (Photos: Katarzyna Olovsson), as well as a portrait of the researcher (Photo: Jonas Olovsson)

A Fossil-Free Future for the Lime Industry – New Research Lights the Way

Quicklime production is one of Sweden’s most carbon-intensive…

New Bio+ Projects to Bio4Energy Researchers

Bio+ is a research and innovation program funded by the Swedish…
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Season’s Greetings from Bio4Energy

As the season draws to a close, Bio4Energy wants to wish you…

Events

PhD Thesis Defence: From Wood to Advanced Materials

Thesis title: From Wood to Advanced Materials: Multifunctional…
Biocarbon photographed in a research laboratory at Umeå University, Sweden. Photo by Eva Weidemann.Courtesy Eva Weidemann, Bio4Energy

Licentiate Seminar in Energy Engineering: Biocarbon production in fluidized bed reactors

Thesis title: Biocarbon production in fluidized bed reactors…
Participants at a workshop in Rusagara village, Rwanda, in July 2024, where results from one of the studies included in García-López’s doctoral thesis were presented to local households (top, photo: Natxo García-López). A portrait of García-López is shown in the upper right corner (photo: Umeå University). The instrumental setup developed at Umeå University for experimental work in rural Rwanda is displayed on the left (photo: Natxo García-López). In the middle, García-López is preparing portable instrumentation (micro-aethalometer) for field measurements (photo: Sabine Ingabire). On the right, an improved rocket stove, fueled with sticks, is shown in operation during field measurements (photo: Natxo García-López).

PhD Thesis Defence: Toward cleaner cooking and energy security in rural sub-Saharan Africa

Thesis title: Toward cleaner cooking and energy security in…
Back in days timber logs were often transported by waterways. A built up illustration of the beginnings of timber transport in northern Sweden. Photo by Anna Strom ©2023.©AnnaStrom

Course Start: Historical, Technological and Societal Background

Historical, technological and societal background to forestry…
Umeå University

Bio4Energy Researchers’ Meeting, 19–20 November 2025

Bio4Energy researchers meet twice a year to share progress,…
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden inaugurate the expansion of it test-bed environments for biorefinery. Photo by Maria Fäldt.RISE

Bio4Energy Advisory Board Meeting

Theme: “Pyrolys & förgasning”. Meeting language is…
PhD candidate Van Minh Dinh at Umeå University

PhD Thesis defence: Valorization of biomass byproducts: the potential of chitin and lignin through solid catalysts

Thesis title: Valorization of biomass byproducts: the potential…
A Spring 2025 Researchers' Meeting will be held in May. Photos by ©AnnaStrom.©AnnaStrom

Bio4Energy Researchers’ Summer Meeting 2025

Bio4Energy researchers meet twice a year, to hear about each…
Marjan Bozhagian Bäckman, Bio4Energy, performing an experiment at the Balder beamline, MAX IV Laboratory. Photo by courtesy of Nils Skoglund.

Workshop on Synchrotron Measurements

This workshop aims to inspire researchers to explore the application…
Bio4Energy Advisory Board with guests Alice Kempe, Karin Johnson, 3 September 2024.

Bio4Energy Advisory Board Meeting

Theme: “Energiberedskap och försörjningstrygghet”. Meeting…