Guijun Yan is a Professor and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the UWA School of Agriculture and Environment at the University of Western Australia. He earned his undergraduate degree in Horticulture in early 1982 and MSc in Horticulture in 1984 from Hebei Agricultural University, followed by a PhD from the University of Auckland in mid-1996, focusing on cytogenetic and molecular studies of kiwifruit genomes, which resulted in six publications in prestigious international journals. His academic career began as Lecturer-Research/Teaching in the Department of Horticulture at Hebei Agricultural University from March 1985 to November 1991, followed by a Visiting Scientist position at HortResearch in Auckland from December 1991 to February 1993. Upon completing his PhD, he joined the University of Western Australia as Research Fellow in Plant Sciences from September 1996 to September 2001, advancing to Lecturer from September 2001 to January 2006, Senior Lecturer from February 2006 to February 2009, Associate Professor from February 2009 to December 2014, and subsequently Professor.

Professor Yan's research specializations encompass plant genetics and breeding, molecular genetics, cytogenetics, biostatistics, molecular phylogenetics, plant genomics and proteomics, with applications to horticultural plants and broad acre crops including wheat, lupins, canola, and chickpea. His work addresses key challenges such as drought and heat tolerance during reproductive stages, disease resistance like crown rot and ascochyta blight, yield-related traits, and abiotic stress responses. He has produced 229 research outputs, including 187 articles, 27 conference papers, 8 review articles, and 3 book chapters. Highly cited publications include 'Flower numbers, pod production, pollen viability, and pistil function are reduced and flower and pod abortion increased in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) under drought' (Journal of Experimental Botany, 2010, 416 citations), 'Antioxidant activity and phenolics of an endophytic Xylaria sp. from Ginkgo biloba' (Food Chemistry, 2007, 410 citations), 'Arsenic toxicity in plants: cellular and molecular mechanisms of its transport and metabolism' (Environmental and Experimental Botany, 2016, 336 citations), 'Production of viable male unreduced gametes in Brassica interspecific hybrids is genotype specific and stimulated by cold temperatures' (BMC Plant Biology, 2011, 177 citations), and 'Transcriptomics analyses reveal wheat responses to drought stress during reproductive stages under field conditions' (Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017, 171 citations). He has collaborated extensively with researchers such as Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Wallace A. Cowling, Hui Liu, and Martin J. Barbetti. Professionally, he served as Deputy Leader of the Plant Production Systems Program in the UWA Institute of Agriculture from 2006 to 2015, Chair of the Ornamental Genetic Resources Working Group of the International Society for Horticultural Science from 2008 to 2012, and Coordinator of AGRI5502.

Professional Email: guijun.yan@uwa.edu.au