Kaarlo Niskanen has been awarded the scholarship for the development of a high-quality textbook at postgraduate level in the field of paper physics, and for studies of new areas of application for wood fiber-based materials.Dr Niskanen has a solid background in innovative R&D and market-driven customer relations in the forest industry. He has held positions as President and Head of Research at the KCL research institute in Finland and has also worked as adjunct professor at the Helsinki University of Technology and Tampere University of Technology. He took his doctor’s degree in physics at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA, in 1984.