Serban, Luca-Gabriel
Luca-Gabriel Serban is a forest engineer who graduated from the Transilvania University of Brasov, in Romania, in 2001. He worked as a forest engineer in Romania from 2001 to 2016. From 2001 to 2004, he coordinated the establishment of more than 800 hectares of forest plantations on degraded land in the Danube flood plains. From 2005 to 2016, he was responsible for the implementation of sustainable forest management and the marketing of wood from plantations in a financially profitable manner. In 2012, he obtained a doctorate in forestry from the Transilvania University after studying the valuation of wood from plantations.
Since his arrival in Québec in 2016, he has been pursuing a master’s degree at Laval University. He became a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs forestiers du Québec in 2019, after recognition of his credentials. Since his arrival in 2018 at the Direction de la recherche forestière (DRF) as an intern in the research team working on plantation silviculture, he has developed expertise in the financial profitability of softwood plantations. A researcher at the DRF since 2019, he studies the financial and economic profitability, yield, treatments and basket of products from softwood plantations.
Link to Luca-Gabriel Serban’s page on ResearchGate 
