Dr Anna Sandak, research group leader of Wood Modification at the InnoRenew CoE, is also leader of the bilateral project Spectroscopy and multivariate data analysis for quality control of modified wood (MULTI-SPEC). It is a two-year project where we will, in collaboration with our colleges from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, use non-destructive spectroscopic techniques with advanced data mining for systematic and extensive characterization and evaluation of modified wood.

Dr Sandak went to the first project meeting in Modena where they agreed on the tasks. Moreover, they were working on data mining on spectra pre-processing and models development.

Also, we at the InnoRenew CoE will soon host a researcher from Italy in conjunction with the MULTI-SPEC project.