Dick Sandberg (Söderhamn, Sweden; born in May 8, 1967) is a Swedish mechanical engineer and wood scientist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),[1][2] who is an elected fellow (FIAWS) of the International Academy of Wood Science.

[3] He is currently the editor-in-chief at the journal Wood Material Science and Engineering,[4] and the period 2013-2024, he was a faculty member and chair professor at the Luleå University of Technology.

In 2015, he was elected as a chaired professor at Wood Science and Engineering division of Lulea University of Technology, in Skellefteå, where he worked until September 2024.

Since 2009, Sandberg has served as the editor-in-chief at the referred wood-related, scientific journal Wood Material Science and Engineering[7] of the Taylor & Francis Group.

In October 2023, a meta-research carried out by John Ioannidis et al. at Stanford University included Dick Sandberg in Elsevier Data 2022, where he was ranked in the top 2% of researchers of all time in wood science (forestry – materials), having a c-index of 2.9702.