Romain Meot: Breaking the wall of resilience in forestry
Participant in 2026 Falling Walls Lab Aotearoa New Zealand.
Romain Meot
Bioeconomy Science Institute
Trees could help to address climate change, but will face rapidly changing environments. To help trees evolve as fast as their environments by selecting
and breeding for traits that enable them to thrive, we need better data. We seek to enable scalable acquisition of high-quality data from standing trees to support
decision-making. We are extending our work on wood discs to develop an automated analysis platform for increment cores collected from standing trees.
Romain Meot is a wood process engineer at the Bioeconomy Science Institute, where he leads the Timber Engineering Laboratory. With an MSc in industrial
and structural engineering from France, he has supported industry-focused developments, including commercial wood testing and processing, timber
value-chain research, and AgriSea’s nanocellulose refinery. He also serves on national and international committees that set standards for wood products
and timber structures.