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BIOGRAPHY OF THE

AUTHOR

A
bdul Kadir Salam was born in Bandung, West
Java, Indonesia, on the first of November
1960. He finished elementary school (1972),
junior high school (1976), and senior high school
(1980) in Cirebon West Java, Indonesia. He got his bachelor’s degree in Soil Science
from Bogor Agricultural University in Bogor, Indonesia (1984). He earned his
master’s and Ph.D.’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the United
States of America in 1989 and 1993, respectively, in the fields of Soil Chemistry-
Fertility and Water Chemistry. He participated in a Postdoctoral Program in the
field of soil Biochemistry (Soil Enzymes) in Nagoya University, Japan, in 1995 –
1996.

As a faculty staff since 1984 in the Faculty of Agriculture the University of Lampung,
he taught several courses for bachelor’s and master’s program: Fundamentals of
Soil Science, Soil Chemistry, Soil Fertility, Fertilizers and Fertilizing, Soil and Plant
Analysis, Research Methodology, Scientific Writing Techniques, and Environmental

Abdul Kadir Salam - 2014