Associate Professor Richard Flavel
Associate Professor of Crop Science - School of Environmental and Rural Science
Phone: +61 2 6773 2441
Email: rflavel3@une.edu.au
Biography
Richard completed Rural Science at the University of New England (2008). He specialised in plant nutrition, with honours exploring the availability of sulfur from novel fertilizer sources in field. Following this he worked as a broadacre commercial agronomist based in Narrabri, Northern NSW before returning to UNE to complete a PhD (“Visualising and quantifying cereal root responses to phosphorus”). Richard has worked as a Research Fellow in plant-soil interactions for the Cooperative Research Centre for Polymers on non-wetting soils and the interactions between the wheat root systems, the soil physical structure and ‘functionalized polymers’ capable of moderating the soil moisture dynamics. In his current role as Crop Lecturer his research interest is in the soil physico-chemical interactions that occur at the root interface and the implications that mechanisms at this locus have for crop and plant productivity.
