Prof. Shaowen Huang is a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He is also a post-scientist in nutrient management for the National Bulk Vegetable Industry Technology System. He earned his B.S. in Soil and Agrochemicals from the China Agricultural University in 1988. He obtained his M.Sc. in Crop Nutrition and Fertilization and his Ph.D. in Plant Nutrition from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 1996 and 2001, respectively. He won the second prize in the Henan Science and Technology Progress Award and the first prize in the Ministry of Agriculture Science and Technology Progress Award (1999). He is mainly engaged in research on the efficient utilization of fertilizer resources, vegetable nutrition, and green and efficient fertilization. He has presided over or participated in national key R&D projects and national bulk vegetable industry technology system post-scientist funding projects. He has made certain achievements in vegetable nutrition and the efficient use of fertilizers, fertilization, and vegetable quality, evaluation of nutrient status in vegetable fields and recommended fertilization, and integrated water and fertilizer management for facility vegetables.
Prof. Hong Wang is a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He is also the director of the Institute’s Soil and Fertilizer Testing Center, Executive Deputy Director of the National Fertilizer Quality Supervision and Inspection Center (Beijing), and Executive Deputy Director and Technical Director of the Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Fertilizer-derived Factor Risk Assessment Laboratory (Beijing) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. He earned his B.S. from the China Agricultural University (1991) and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 1997 and 2002, respectively. From 2003 to 2005, he conducted postdoctoral research at Nagoya University, Japan. His research interests include efficient fertilizer nutrient utilization and plant root biology, plant trace element nutrition and fertilizer, and agrochemical testing technology. He has published more than 60 papers on these interests.
