{"id":907,"date":"2021-05-10T12:20:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T12:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/schoolofnaturalresources\/?p=907"},"modified":"2021-06-08T07:43:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T07:43:59","slug":"dr-francis-munalula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/schoolofnaturalresources\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Francis Munalula"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>PhD. Wood Product Science, University of Stellenbosch, RSA.<\/li><li>MSc. Forestry (Wood Product Science), University of Stellenbosch, RSA<\/li><li>BSc. (Hons) Forestry (WPS), University of Stellenbosch, South Africa<\/li><li>BSc. Wood Science &amp; Technology, Copperbelt University, Zambia<\/li><li>Nat Dipl. Wood Technology, SADC-FITC, Zimbabwe<\/li><li>Dip For. Zambia Forestry College, Kitwe.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>BRIEF INTRODUCTION <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Munalula joined the Copperbelt University in October 2011, having previously worked for the Department of Forestry (GRZ).&nbsp;As a Forester, he supervised staff, workers and operations to ensure that they contributed to the sustainable management of forest resources. As a member of the faculty at CBU, Dr Munalula&nbsp;is involved&nbsp;in&nbsp;teaching, research, and community service. Apart from being appointed as Head of Dept. (Biomaterials Science), he has also previously held the position of Programmes Coordinator at the CBU Centre for Academic Development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RESEARCH INTERESTS <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dendrochronology. Climate-growth relationships. Non-destructive evaluation of wood. Primary wood processing. Wood composites. Biomass resource characterization<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PUBLICATIONS <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See Google Scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.co.za\/citations?user=1I0GxWUAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">https:\/\/scholar.google.co.za\/citations?user=1I0GxWUAAAAJ&amp;hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS PhD. Wood Product Science, University of Stellenbosch, RSA. MSc. Forestry (Wood Product Science), University of Stellenbosch, RSA BSc. (Hons) Forestry (WPS), University of Stellenbosch, South Africa BSc. Wood Science &amp; Technology, Copperbelt University, Zambia Nat Dipl. Wood Technology, SADC-FITC, Zimbabwe Dip For. Zambia Forestry College, Kitwe. BRIEF INTRODUCTION Dr. Munalula joined the Copperbelt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sict-staff-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/schoolofnaturalresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/schoolofnaturalresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/schoolofnaturalresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/schoolofnaturalresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/schoolofnaturalresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/schoolofnaturalresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/schoolofnaturalresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/schoolofnaturalresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/schoolofnaturalresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/schoolofnaturalresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/schoolofnaturalresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}