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N
anik Sriyani is a professor of Weed and Herbicide Management in Faculty of
Agriculture, University of Lampung. She was born in Magelang, a beautiful
town in Central Java, Indonesia, on the first of January 1962. She finished
elementary school (1973), junior high school (1976), and senior high school (1980)
in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. She got her bachelor’s degree in Agronomy
from Bogor Agricultural University in Bogor, Indonesia (1984). She earned her
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 field of Plant Physiology
and Weed Science.

As a faculty staff since 1986 in the Faculty of Agriculture the University of Lampung,
she teaches several courses for bachelor’s and master’s programs: Weed Science
and Management, Herbicide in the Environment, Herbicide Physiology,
Management of Weeds and Herbicides, Basic Plant Physiology, Crop Physiology,
Basic Plant Protection, Research Methodology, and
Environmental Chemistry and Pollution. She has
also conducted research projects on various weed
and herbicide control and management, funded by
various resources: the University of Lampung, the
Ministry of Culture and Education, Japan Society for
the Promotion of Science, Indonesia Toray Science
Foundation, the Ministry of Research and
Technology and Higher Education, and various
private companies such as Gunung Madu Plantation,
Great Giant Food Company, Syngenta Indonesia,
Monsanto Indonesia, DuPont Indonesia, etc.

From 1997, she has been appointed by Ministry of
Agriculture as an independent researcher to test herbicides before their releases.
Right now she is a member of Indonesian Pesticide Committee, since 2017. From
her intensive research results, she published more than 70 scientific papers in
national and international journals. Her latest book is The Chemistry and Fertility of
Soils under Tropical Weeds (2019), as a coauthor to Professor Abdul Kadir Salam.
Her other books are Weed of Southern Sumatra: Identification Book (2013) and
Pengendalian Gulma Terpadu or Integrated Weed Management (2017). She also
published Melatih Guru Muda Menyusun Karya Tulis or Training Young Teachers to
Compose Articles as one of the contributor (2014).

In the University of Lampung, she had been assigned to the following posts: Chair
of the Laboratory of Weed Science and Chair of Weed Science Peer Group (1996
until now), Expert Staff of the Vice Rector of Collaboration Affairs (2000-2004),
Expert Staff of the Vice Rector of Academic Affairs (2005-2007). Since 2010 she has
Abdul Kadir Salam and Nanik Sriyani – 2019