Rate My Professor Guy Kirk

Professor Guy Kirk is the Professor of Soil Systems at the Centre for Soil, Agrifood and Biosciences, School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University. He joined Cranfield in February 2003, having previously spent 13 years at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines as Soil Chemist and then Head of the Soil and Water Sciences Division. Earlier, he completed a DPhil in Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford (1981–1985) and post-doctoral research in the University's Soil Science Laboratory (1985–1987). He also holds a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry and Soil Science from Newcastle University (1978–1981) and was on sabbatical in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge between IRRI and Cranfield (2001–2002). Kirk is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Associate Editor of the European Journal of Soil Science. He has attracted funding from BBSRC, NERC, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, FCDO, Defra, and the British Geological Survey for projects on rice tolerance to iron toxicity and zinc deficiency, arsenic and metal contamination in rice, soil carbon balances, and radionuclides in soils.