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Research Professional in the Department of Wood and Forest Sciences, Université Laval

Rosilei Garcia holds a Ph.D. in Wood Science from Université Laval, specializing in wood-based composite panels.

Between 2006 and 2019, she was a professor in the Department of Forest Products at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) in Brazil, where she developed teaching and research skills and contributed to the training of highly qualified personnel. From 2017 to 2018, she was also a visiting professor in the Department of Forest and Wood Sciences at Université Laval, where she worked on a project to measure the physical deformation of wood using 3D digital image correlation. At UFRRJ, she served as an executive member of the graduate program in forest and environmental sciences, a member of the undergraduate supervised internship committee, and the president of the graduate student outreach program in forest engineering. These roles provided her with experience in graduate student training and management.

Since 2020, she has been working in the Department of Forest and Wood Sciences, where she has contributed to preparing several grant applications to NSERC for structuring projects, including the Cellulose Filament Valorization Project and Corepan-Bois.

She has authored around fifty scientific articles, and her research has covered various areas of wood engineering. She is interested in wood-based composite panels, wood products, the valorization of wood by-products, and process improvement with a commitment to sustainability.

Education

• Ph.D. in Wood Science, Université Laval
• Master's degree in Wood Science, Université Laval
• Bachelor's degree in Forest Engineering, Paulista State University (UNESP)
• Brazil Evaluated by World Education Services (WES) as equivalent to a four-year Canadian bachelor's degree