Teodoro M. Miano

Teodoro M. Miano is a Professor of soil chemistry, University of Bari, Italy. His fellowships and research periods are as follows: Università of Bayreuth, Germany, 1986; Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, USA, 1987; Geologisches Institut, University of Bern, Switzerland, 1992, 1994; Norwegian Institute of Water Research, Oslo, Norvegia, 1993; Marine Institute, University of Georgia, Sapelo Island, Georgia, USA, 1995, 1999. He was Secretary, Editor Newsletter, at International Humic Substances Society, 1994–2003. He was a Member at International Committee ISEB; Steering Committee, Italian Society Agricultural Chemistry (SICA); Steering Committee Italian Society Soil Science (SISS); President, Soil System Sciences Division, European Geosciences Union (EGU); CIHEAM, President, Scientific Advisory Committee (2004–2008). He is Coeditor of 9 volumes, and Referee of several journals and Research Institutions. For more than 35 times, he joined in congress organizing and scientific committees. His main research topics are organic matter and humic substances of soils and their interactions with pesticides and metal ions, natural and food industry biomasses ricycling, composting, molecular and functional characterization of organic matter and humification processes, management of soil quality and fertility, organic agriculture, and soil pollutions and monitoring.

Biography Updated on 16 October 2007