Two staff members have been awarded professorships in the recent round of promotions at Bangor University.
Andy Smith was appointed as Professor of Forest Ecology; his research and teaching focuses on silviculture, ecophysiology, biogeochemistry and tree-soil interactions, with an emphasis on species diversity and ecosystem function in undisturbed and managed forests. Graham Ormondroyd was appointed as Professor in Wood Science. Graham is the Head of Materials Research in the university’s Biocomposites Centre and is the Vice President of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3).
Andy and Graham join Bangor’s two existing forestry professors – Professor Morag McDonald and Professor John Healey MICFor. Morag is Professor of Ecology and Catchment Management, and is now also Interim Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of the University’s College of Science & Engineering. John has the ‘established chair’ of Forest Sciences in the university, the eighth holder since the inaugural Professor of Forestry, Fraser Storey, was appointed in 1910. In 2024, Bangor will celebrate the 120th anniversary of the start of forestry education in the university in 1904.
