1. Effects of insect pests on the quality, growth and production of forest stands.
1. Effects of silviculture and forest site on timber quality.
1. Modelling forest growth and productivity: tree and site models, site quality, stem profile equations and volume equations for product classification, biomass, carbon fixation and competition etc.
1. Modelling the moisture content of dead fuels in forest areas and determination of seasonal patterns of moisture content in live fuels in forest and shrub land.
1. Soil fertility, fertilization, and nutritional diagnosis by analysis of soils and vegetation.
10. Development of innovative products for wood construction.
11. Evaluation of gluing in technical wood products.
12. Training and teaching of structural wood calculations.
13. Estimation of carbon footprint in structural wood products.
2. Effects of soil management. Conservation measures.
2. Invasive species.
2. Inventory and monitoring of forest resources: aerial and terrestrial LiDAR, satellites, UAV and field inventories.
2. Modelling structural variables of the surface fuel characteristics that determine their flammability and combustibility.
2. Physical characterization of clonal forestry plantations.
3. Biochemical and soil organic matter cycles.
3. Dynamics of forest insect populations: effects of temperature, plant nutrient status and defence system, microorganisms and fauna associated with growth, survival and reproduction of forest insects, in the current context of global change.
3. Influence of pathogenic fungi on wood properties.
3. Modelling structural variables of the tree canopy related to initiation and propagation of crown fire.
3. Optimization and decision-making by multi-criteria analysis at site and forest level: linear, raw and mixed programming, heuristic techniques, differentiable methods, AHP and others.
4. Cataloguing fuel types using the criteria outlined in the “Photo- guide to forest fuels of Galicia and associated fire behaviour”.
4. Numerical simulation by finite elements of the resistance of timber destined for construction purposes.
4. Silviculture: high growth Atlantic species, energy plantations and continuous cover forestry methods.
4. The role of soil in global change: microorganism biodiversity and greenhouse gases.
5. Evaluation of the efficacy of forest treatments in minimising forest fire risk.
5. Optimization and calculation of timber structures and joints.
5. Other uses of forests: mycological production.
5. Soil pollution by heavy metals and emerging pollutants. Restoration and decontamination of soil and water.
6. Forest management: protective zones and protected sites, small scale property and joint forest management groups.
6. Mechanical characterization of timber for structural purposes.
6. Remote sensing applied to forest fires.
6. Revalorization of waste and by-products in agroforestry and environmental fields.
7. Application of non-destructive techniques for the evaluation of structural timber.
7. Educational innovation regarding forest fires.
7. Evaluation of fire impacts on soils and restoration of burned areas.
7. Forest certification: environmental, social and economic impacts.
8. Development of computer programs to help in inventory and decision-making in forest management planning.
8. Study of the behaviour of structural timber systems by using mechanical assays.
8. Tropical soils.
9. Use of photogrammetric techniques (Digital Image Correlation, DIC) for studying the behaviour of structural wood.