Professor Volf has more than 20 years R&D and teaching experience in bioeconomy and biorefinery. She was/is leader director for some highly competitive research projects where she has been able to implement high-level research laboratory facilities and strengthen research in bio-based products in order to promote a bio-based economy by complementing and substituting petroleum-based raw materials with renewable lignocellulosic ones. Prof. Volf's target is to develop green methods and applications for both the large-volume and special use of wood extractives and products prepared from the main wood polymers, cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin. Applying various green extraction methods (supercritical fluid extraction, ultrasonication, microwave-assisted extraction) and improved pretreatments, as well as green conversion techniques (hydrothermal carbonization, pyrolysis), the lignocellulose feedstock will be more efficiently converted into relevant products. She promotes bioeconomy through locally oriented biorefineries which use local biomass as feedstock, transforming every part of biomass into value-added products for food and industrial applications. In this context, her research group elaborated and uses an integrated biorefinery flow sheet that can be particularized depending on the feedstock.