Dr. Georgiana Daian

Georgiana is an Honorary Fellow of the Melbourne School of Land and Environment, The University of Melbourne, and has six years of professional experience in undertaking research projects for the forest and wood products industry. This experience is backed up by other years of research work in areas such as e-commerce, industrial economics and microwave industrial applications.

Georgiana has expertise in wood resource management, carbon accounting, characterisation of wood and wood products, developing research projects and methodologies, and scientific knowledge in electromagnetic radiations.

She is actively involved in the Elsevier’s peer review process, particularly reviewing articles in Journal of Cleaner Production and Resources, Conservation & Recycling. She is also working on co-authoring a book entitled The Effects of Climate Change on Quality of Wood and Wood Products.

As postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Melbourne, Georgiana was working on a variety of projects including assessments and characterisations of various coated wood products exposed to indoor and outdoor conditions, investigation of mechanical properties of a range of wood species, and studies on various aspects of environmental sustainability of wood. She developed extensive knowledge in reducing, managing and recycling wood waste materials, as well as on the toxicological and environmental effects of wood preservatives in recycled products derived from reclaimed treated timber. Georgiana was also the initiator, coordinator and investigator of a product development project, which involved the conception of a sustainable product using reclaimed timber materials. She developed the market and technical feasibility study of the ecological product, including its environmental profile and acoustic nondestructive methodology for quality assessment.

Georgiana holds a PhD in Materials Science from Swinburne University of Technology where she explored with great interest the fundamental science of the electromagnetic waves and their interaction with wood materials. This research was part of the Cooperative Research Centre for Wood Innovations program. She also holds two Masters degrees, one in Economic Engineering and one in Economic and Management Sciences, both obtained from European educational institutions.