[5] Additionally, he served on the editorial boards of esteemed wood-related journals, like Wood Material Science and Engineering[6] and Holzforschung.

[7] He served also as a visiting professor at the University of Life Sciences in Warsaw and the Universität für Bodenkultur in Vienna.

In 2002, Niemz was elected as a fellow at The International Academy of Wood Science for his yearlong research and academic work.

In October 2023, a meta-research carried out by John Ioannidis et al. at Stanford University included Niemz 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 3.0672.

[8] In December 2023, along with Alfred Teischinger and Dick Sandberg, he coordinated and edited the referenced Springer Handbook of Wood Science and Technology.