Prof. Dr. Róbert Németh is a professor and Research Group Head at the University of Sopron. He has taught and conducted research since 1994 and earned his Ph.D. in 2003. He specializes in wood modification, utilization, and physics, and wood–water relationships. Since 2011, he has directed the Institute of Wood Sciences, and has been a professor since 2014. He has led several Hungarian and EU-funded projects and participated in various COST actions. His research focuses on deciduous wood characteristics, and wood modification, quality, sorption, permeability, and drying.