Siegfried Fink

Siegfried Fink (born 1956, died 2023) was a German Forest ecologist with the main field of Forest botanic. Fink was professor forest-botanic at the Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.

Finks research group took care of the Forest-botanic-garden of Freiburg. He and his were working on methods of forest botanic research (microskopy and microbiology). The group was doing research on matrixes of wood-decomposing fungi at different kind of woods in vivo an in vitro and other questions concerning the relation of fungus and trees.

He is the inventor of transparent wood.

Publications Siegfried Fink (1999): Pathological and Regenerative Plant Anatomy. Buch. GEBRÜDER BORNTRAEGER, ISBN 978-3-443-14027-4 Mark Schubert, Siegfried Fink (2008): Evaluation of Trichoderma spp. as a biocontrol agent against wood decay fungi in urban trees. Biological control 45.1 (2008): 111–123. Siegfried Fink (2009): Hazard tree identification by visual tree assessment (VTA): Scientifically solid and practically approved. Arboricultural Journal 32.3 (2009): 139–155. Giuliana Deflorio, Siegfried Fink et al. (2008): Detection of incipient decay in tree stems with sonic tomography after wounding and fungal inoculation."Wood Science and Technology 42.2 (2008): 117–132. Siegfried Fink (1992): Transparent wood–a new approach in the functional study of wood structure. Holzforschung Nr. 46