Edmone Roffael (1939–2021)[1][2] was a Palestinian-German chemist and wood scientist, and former professor at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, who made noteworthy contributions to clarifying the release of formaldehyde from particleboard and MDF products, and its emission reduction.

Regarding this topic, Roffael authored his habilitation thesis, titled "Possibilities of gluing wood particles with phenol-formaldehyde resins and sulfite liquor," which resulted in his habilitation at the Faculty of Forestry at the Georg-August University of Göttingen in 1976 and granted him the teaching qualification (venia legendi) for the subject of "Wood Chemistry."

He had focused his scientific attention on this issue publishing the seminal work "Die Formaldehyd-Abgabe von Spanplatten und anderen Werkstoffen" in 1982.

The methods and devices for measuring the then-found carcinogenic formaldehyde emissions from materials, which Roffael co-developed, were the basis for the development of the German (DIN) and European (EN) standards, guidelines, and regulations.

In addition, he was regular member of the Euro Wood Network, the United Nations Environment Programme Working Group, the Zellcheming Association and the Cellulose-Chemists-Club Darmstadt.

During his career, Roffael published his research findings primarily in journals such as WKI-Mitteilungen, Holz als Roh- und Werkstoff, Holz-Zentralblatt, and Das Papier.

His various research and consulting activities took him to Egypt, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Canada, Malaysia, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, and the USA.

[10] In October 2023, a meta-research carried out by John Ioannidis et al. at Stanford University, included Edmone Roffael in Elsevier Data 2022, where he was ranked at the top 2% of researchers in wood science (forestry – materials), having a composite index of 3.0892.