Caixian Tang

Biography

 Tang graduated BAgSc (Hons) from Zhejiang Agricultural University (now Zhejiang University), China in 1982. He was then appointed as an Associate Lecturer at the same University. After obtaining a scholarship from the University of Western Australia in 1988, he carried out research on the role of iron in nodulation and nitrogen fixation in legumes and was awarded a Ph.D. Since 1991, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition at the University of Western Australia, and was later appointed as a Research Fellow in the Cooperative Research Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture, and in the Cooperative Research Centre for Plant-Based Management of Dryland Salinity. He joined the staff as a Senior Lecturer in 2003, and was promoted to Reader and Associate Professor in 2005, and to Professor in 2008.

Research Interest

Soil science - soil management, plant-soil interactions, rhizosphere chemistry & nutrient dynamics