Dr. Acuna holds a PhD in Forest Engineering at Oregon State University, a MSc in Operations Research and Management at University of Chile, and a Bachelor in Forest Engineering at University Austral of Chile. He has over 25 years of professional experience providing forest management, and forest supply chain management expertise and solutions for national and international private companies, universities, and research organizations. Dr. Acuna’s international experience in forest operations and optimization modelling includes research activities in Chile, Uruguay, Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Finland, Ireland, and Spain. His research interests include mathematical programming and optimization techniques for forest management and operations, wood and biomass harvesting and transport logistics, operations research and decision support systems, and harvesting machine evaluation. Dr. Acuna has served as a Deputy Coordinator of IUFRO’s Division 3 (Harvesting and Transportation Engineering) and has been an active member of the Cost Action (Forest Energy) program. He has served as a reviewer of articles in more than 20 scientific journals and is a member of Editorial Board of the following journals: Forests, International Journal of Forest Engineering, Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering, Annals of Forest Research, and the AIMS Energy.