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Tuesday, 24 September 2013

A leading agricultural scientist and academic whose mission is to ‘feed the world' has been honoured with a prestigious award by China's Gansu Provincial Government for his outstanding contribution to research and leadership with within Gansu Province, especially Lanzhou University.

Hackett Professor Kadambot Siddique, Chair in Agriculture and Director of UWA's Institute of Agriculture, is one of just three foreign experts to win the Dunhuang Award in 2013.

Professor Siddique has 29 years' experience in agricultural research, teaching and management in both Australia and overseas.  He has developed a national and international reputation in the fields of crop physiology, production agronomy, farming systems, genetic resources, and breeding research in cereal, grain and pasture legumes and oilseed crops.

He has been collaborating with Lanzhou University in dryland agro-ecology since 2006, playing an important leadership role in academic capacity building, research and internationalisation of agro-ecology.

According to the award citation, Professor Siddique's leadership covered three main areas: promoting close bilateral collaboration between the universities and earning high recognition from their presidents (vice-chancellors); improving capacity building for Lanzhou University; and enhancing internationalisation and international impact for Lanzhou University.  He is also a visiting Professor in five other Chinese universities.

Professor Siddique has published more than 250 scientific papers, review articles and book chapters and is on the editorial board of a number of international scientific journals.  He has also trained many MSc and PhD students.

He has developed an extensive network of scientists in Australia and Europe and in countries including China, India, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Malaysia, East Timor, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Canada and the US.

In 2013 Professor Siddique was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Agricultural Institute (FAAI).  Last year he was awarded the prestigious Hackett Professor of Agriculture Chair at The University of Western Australia.  In 2011, Professor Siddique was made Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.  He is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

Media references

Hackett Professor Kadambot Siddique (UWA Institute of Agriculture)  (+61 8)  6488 7012  /  (+61 4) 11 155 396
Michael Sinclair-Jones (UWA Public Affairs)  (+61 8)  6488 3229  /  (+61 4) 00 700 783

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