Paul-Antoine Spies

Paul-Antoine Spies joined the Wood Materials Science group in October 2019 as a PhD Student under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ingo Burgert. The focus of his PhD is to achieve high strength, high stiffness and high toughness in delignified and densified wood composites by adapting bio-inspired toughening mechanisms.

He obtained his Master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in 2019. As a visiting international research student at the University of British Columbia, he carried out his Master thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Scott Renneckar in the Faculty of Forestry. His Master thesis focused on the processing and characterization of lignin-based carbon nanofiber reinforced composites.

He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering at EPFL in 2015 after carrying out his Bachelor thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Rachid Boukhili at Polytechnique Montréal.