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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, master’s program, and doctor’s: Basic
Chemistry, Fundamentals of Soil Science, Soil Chemistry, Soil Fertility, Fertilizers
and Fertilizing, Soil and Plant Analysis, Research Methodology, Scientific Writing
Techniques, and Environmental Chemistry and Pollution. He also conducted
research projects on various soil problems, particularly related to nutrient and non-
nutrient elements (heavy metals) and soil enzyme management funded by the
University of Lampung, the Ministry of Culture and Education, Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science, Indonesia Toray Science Foundation, and the Ministry of
Research and Technology. He published more than 75 technical papers in national

Abdul Kadir Salam and Nanik Sriyani – 2019