about me
My name is Jesús Menéndez Amigo and I have been recently appointed as KTP associate by the Edinburgh Napier University. KTP stands for the British program 'Knowledge Transfer Partnership' which is a partnership agreement between an UK knowledge base centre and a UK company with British Government financial support. The KTP associate is the link between them and he/she also features most part of the project.
Most of my professional career has been dedicated to the most sustainable building material: timber. My contact with wood includes all the steps from the first processing at the sawmill to the structural design of the final timber element, all the way up to the panel industry processing.
I graduated as BEng Agronomy with specialisation in agro-food factories at the University of Burgos, Spain in 2003. I finished the MEng in Forestry at the University of Lleida in 2006, after staying on year in Estonia researching about forestry economic policy and forestry product markets evolution.
I was employed for almost three years as R&D timber engineer by a multinational form works company based on Barcelona. After almost these thre years, I registered for the MSc Timber Engineering program at the Edinburgh Napier University due to CPD reasons and also to step forward in timber design. After sucessfully finishing all the course modules, I was hired as research assistant by the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, to carry out a project about multi-storey reinforced timber structures.
Most of my professional career has been dedicated to the most sustainable building material: timber. My contact with wood includes all the steps from the first processing at the sawmill to the structural design of the final timber element, all the way up to the panel industry processing.
I graduated as BEng Agronomy with specialisation in agro-food factories at the University of Burgos, Spain in 2003. I finished the MEng in Forestry at the University of Lleida in 2006, after staying on year in Estonia researching about forestry economic policy and forestry product markets evolution.
I was employed for almost three years as R&D timber engineer by a multinational form works company based on Barcelona. After almost these thre years, I registered for the MSc Timber Engineering program at the Edinburgh Napier University due to CPD reasons and also to step forward in timber design. After sucessfully finishing all the course modules, I was hired as research assistant by the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, to carry out a project about multi-storey reinforced timber structures.
