Lauri Sikanen

Group Manager and Principal Scientist at Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)

Dr. Sikanen has been working 30 years with industrial timber supply R&D. 1999 he had his PhD of customized wood purchases and supply at the University of Joensuu, Finland. Since 2001 he has been focusing on wood biomass for energy and international technology and know-how transfer. He has been leading and participating R&D and consulting processes in Finland, Scotland, Germany, Italy, Russia, Iceland and Canada.
Sikanen worked also as a professor of energy pellet research at the University of Eastern Finland 2008-2013 and as an adjunct professor of Lakehead University (ON) since 2018. Sikanen has about 100 publications of which over 30 are peer reviewed.