Robert F. Putz

Robert F. Putz

Robert F. Putz

Head of the Wood and Biotechnology Department | Wood K+, Austria

Robert Putz is employed at Kompetenzzentrum Holz GmbH, an Austrian Competence Center for Wood Chemistry and Wood Composites, and is responsible for the research area Wood Chemistry and Biotechnology.

The area has it’s research focus on the holistic utilization of biomass and industrial residual/waste streams by linking up biotechnological and chemical processes. The focus is on biomass utilization for the generation of platform chemicals or compounds ( for replacement of petrochemicals), biopolymers (like PLA, PHAs) as well as the development of concepts for a cascadic biorefinery.