Orlando J. Rojas

Canadian scientist in bioproducts and materials science

Orlando J. Rojas (born 1962) is a Venezuelan-born Canadian materials scientist and professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada, and also, a visiting professor at Aalto University in Finland. He has received the Anselme Payen Award in 2018 by the American Chemical Society.²

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About

He holds the position of Canada Excellence Research Chair in Bioproducts, with appointments in the Departments of Wood Science, Chemistry, and Chemical & Biological Engineering. He presently is also the scientific director of the UBC Bioproducts Institute.

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University of British ColumbiaBoard member Jan 1, 2020 to now¹³

Early life and education

1994 to 1998Samuel Ginn College of Engineering Doctor of Philosophy^{3 4}
2001 to 2003Royal Institute of Technology^{3 5}

Career

Occupation: researcher, chemist, university teacher.¹²

Since 2020Worked at University of British Columbia^{6 9}
Since 2020Director, University of British Columbia^{6 10}
Since 2020Professor, University of British Columbia^{6 11}
Since 2014Professor, Aalto University^{6 8}
2004 to 2014Professor, North Carolina State University^{6 7}

Rojas received his B.Sc. from Universidad de Los Andes in Venezuela, an M.Sc. from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and a Ph.D. from Auburn University. He completed postdoctoral research at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden.

Rojas then joined the University of British Columbia in 2019 as Canada Excellence Research Chair in Forest Bioproducts. He directs the Bioproducts Institute at UBC, which develops renewable and sustainable materials from forest biomass. He leads the research group of Biobased Colloids and Materials (BiCMat), focusing on renewable nano- and microparticles (e.g. cellulose, lignin, proteins), sustainable processing, and bioinspired functional materials.

His research interests include: (a) Renewable nano- and microparticles from plant-based sources, (b) Sustainable biomass processing and green chemistry, (c) Biomimetic and bioinspired materials with hierarchical structure, and (d) Functional materials for catalysis, sensing, and controlled release

In August 2025, Rojas was ranked at the top 2% of researchers in the world at the area of polymers ("nanoscience – nanotechnology") having a very high c-score of 3.5912. Until October 2025, the entire research work of Rojas has received more than 54,000 citations at Google Scholar.

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