Professor Enzo Lombi, Future Industries Institute, Adelaide University, School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability, The University of Queensland, Australia

Date: Thursday, 25 Jun; 10-11 am – SARDI PRC Auditorium

Title: Developing (field-relevant) synchrotron techniques to support agricultural innovation

Abstract:Synchrotron techniques have been used to investigate a range of processes in soils and plants. While these applications were initially addressing environmental issues related to pollution, recent years have seen increasing interest in using synchrotron approaches for agricultural research. This presentation will focus on new methodologies developed to tackle some major challenges related with food production and in particular fertiliser efficiency, soil constraints and nutritional value of crops

Bio: Enzo Lombi (orcid.org/0000-0003-3384-0375) holds the Barbara Hardy Chair in Environmental Science and Engineering at the Future Industries Institute, Adelaide University. His major research interests relate to the biogeochemistry of trace elements and nutrients in the environment. His research relies on synchrotron and (radio)isotopic techniques. Enzo received his PhD in environmental chemistry from the Catholic University (Italy) and held positions at BOKU (Vienna), Rothamsted Research (UK), CSIRO (Australia) and the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) before starting at the University of South Australia in 2009.

To see his research profile, click HERE

Followed by morning tea