Lecturer
B.Sc. Wood Management and Technology
Rainer Abt
Rainer Abt, a qualified civil engineer and master carpenter, has been active in the field of computer-aided design of timber constructions and other projects for 28 years. He works as a salesman for the company cadwork informatik Software GmbH, works as a trainer and consultant, has teaching assignments at universities in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, and supervises vocational and master craftsman schools. He has been a lecturer for CAD basics since 2012 and for timber construction CAD since 2015, both in the timber industry degree programme.
Dr. Martin Dressler
Employer: LEUCO
Industry: Woodworking tools
Location: Horb am Neckar
LEUCO is one of the leading manufacturers of woodworking tools and exports worldwide.
Career: -
Apprenticeship as a mechanic
• Secondary school leaving certificate
• Studied mechanical engineering at the University of Stuttgart
• 9 years as a research assistant at the Institute for Machine Tools at the University of Stuttgart – Department of Woodworking Machines
• Doctorate: Simulation of chip collection processes
• 8 years at LEUCO
• Head of Research and Business Development
Dipl.-Ing. Forstwirtschaft Ralf Grün
After graduating from Rottenburg University of Applied Sciences in 1998 and moving to the IT centre of the state forestry administration, he never lost contact with the university. Just two years later, he was appointed as an IT lecturer at his old place of study. To this day, he still enjoys bringing the world of IT a little closer to the young students on the rather natural study programmes.
Currently a lecturer for the first and second semesters of the Wood Economics degree programme.
Since 2000, teaching assignments at the HFR in the forest management/bioenergy/wood management degree programmes for the subjects IT and database management.
Diplom Forstwirt Paul Siemes
Is a forester from "the bottom up". After studying forestry at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, he completed his legal traineeship at the Baden-Württemberg State Forestry Administration. He then gained a wide range of experience in the field of wood energy, both in public administration and in the private sector:
• FVA Forstliche Versuchs- und Forschungsanstalt Baden-Württemberg: project manager of the forest utilisation department
• BAV Bergischer Abfallwirtschaftsverband: manager of the Bergisches Land wood cluster
• EC Bioenergie GmbH & Co KG: sales – project management – quality management officer QMB
Since 2015, Paul Siemes has been an external lecturer at the Rottenburg University of Applied Forest Sciences (HFR) in the wood industry degree programme for the subject "Energetic use of wood".
Dr. rer. nat. Tatiana Spallek
Studied chemistry and gained a doctorate in the field of catalysis and materials science at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen.
Further training as a representative for integrated management systems at Habmann Aufstiegsakademie in Fellbach.
In the meantime, an employee at the Rottenburg University of Applied Forest Sciences in the BSP-Laub research project.
Currently working at SAS hagmann GmbH & Co KG as laboratory manager at the Gültstein site, deputy QMB and GMP officer.
Since 2016 lecturer at the HFR in the wood industry degree programme in the subject of chemical fundamentals.