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Professor Zed Rengel earned his PhD at the Louisiana State University in the United States in 1988. He worked as postdoc and then Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, Australia. In 1996, he transferred to the University of Western Australia in Perth, and has been the full professor of soil science and plant nutrition since 2001. Zed was awarded 13 prizes and awards (including Humboldt Research Award and Fulbright Senior Scholar Award), 11 fellowships (eg. Humboldt, OECD, Japanese STA, French Government), 4 Honorary Professorships and 6 Visiting Professorships (eg. Cornell-USA, Okayama-Japan, KVL-Denmark, Gissen-Germany). He was elected a Foreign Fellow of Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences and was bestowed the Honorary Doctorate by the University of Zagreb. Zed is the author/co-author of 300+ publications in peer-refereed international journals and 37 invited book chapters. He edited 7 books and 6 Journal Special Issues. Ismail Cakmak received his PhD at the University Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany under the guidance of the late Prof Dr.Horst Marschner. Dr. Cakmak had a research collaboration with Prof Marschner for 12 years and they published together extensively. He is currently Professor at the Sabanci University-Istanbul, Turkey. He has published 225 peer-reviewed articles and named among the "highly cited researchers in agricultural sciences by Clarivate Analytics. He has received IFA "International Crop Nutrition Award" in 2005, Australian Crawford Fund "Derek Tribe Medal in 2007, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-Georg Forster Research Award in 2014, International Plant Nutrition Institute-IPNI Science Award in 2016 and the World Academy of Sciences-Agricultural Science Prize in 2016. He is an elected member of "The Academy of Europe and "The Science Academy of Turkey. Professor Philip John White FLS FRSE graduated from Oxford University with a BA in Biochemistry in 1983 and was awarded a PhD in Natural Sciences (Botany) from the University of Manchester in 1987, followed by a DSc in 2016. He is currently a Research Specialist in Plant Ecophysiology at The James Hutton Institute (UK), a Full Professor at Huazhong Agricultural University (China), where he lectures on "Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants - A Phylogenetic Approach, and a Visiting Professor at the Comenius University (Slovakia). He has published more than 270 refereed papers and over 200 other scientific articles. He was a commissioned contributor to Trends in Plant Science and BioMedNet (2001-2003) and has served on the Editorial Boards of many periodicals including Annals of Botany, Plant and Soil, and Journal of Experimental Botany. He is listed as a Highly Cited Researcher in Plant & Animal Science by Clarivate Analytics. |
