Time: 15:30 pm 12/6/2015(Friday)
Place: No.1 meeting room in college of natural resources and environment, Northwest A&F University
David Hopkins
Professor, Dean of School of Agriculture, Food & Environment, Royal Agricultural University, UK. Member of the UK Advisory Committee on Releases into the Environment (ACRE), Member of the UK National Committee on Antarctic Research, Elected Fellow of the Society for Biology (FSB), Past-President of British Society of Soil Science, Elected member of Environmental Microbiology Group committee.
Education and Qualifications
1985-1988 PhD Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England UK
1983-1985 BSc (1st class Honours) Biological Sciences with industrial placement in the Agricultural Development & Development Service, CNAA – Manchester Polytechnic, England UK
1981-1983 Higher National Diploma Applied Biology, Manchester Polytechnic, England UK
Honorary Appointments and Distinctions
2010-2013 Rothamsted Honorary Research Fellow, Rothamsted Research Institute (BBSRC Institute), Harpenden, UK
2008-2011 Visiting Professor, School of Biology, Newcastle University, UK
2008-2011 Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Glasgow, UK
2006-2012 Adjunct Professor, Antarctic Studies, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
2003-2004 Adjunct Professor, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins USA
Editorships
Journal of Soil Science
1991-1993 Associate Editor
European Journal of Soil Science
1994-2007 Associate Editor
2003 Joint Editor of Special Issue on Soil Biology
Soil Biology and Biochemistry
1999- Subject Editor
2005-6 Joint editor of Special Issue on Biodiversity and Ecosystems Functioning in Antarctic Soils
Biology and Fertility of Soils
2003-2006 Regional Editor
1999- Editorial Board Member
Annals in Environmental Science
2006- Editorial Board Member
Journal of Environmental Quality and Safety
2007- Editorial Board Member
Plant & Soil
2010- Editorial Board Member