The Zero30 Project is proud to welcome Md. Noor E Alam Siddique to their team.

Siddique was identified as a Global Talent by the Department of Home Affairs, Australia in the Food and Agriculture Technology sector in 2021 and has a background in soil science and agriculture with particular interest in soil carbon and sustainable land management. He also has a PhD in soil carbon dynamics from UNE.

Siddique investigated the influence of land resource and land use intensity on soil carbon in rice-based cropping systems to find pathways of land use intensification, soil resilience, climate change adaptations and sustainability in a farming region. He holds a bachelor’s degree in agriculture and two master’s degrees, one in horticulture from Bangladesh and the other in physical land resources from the Ghent University in Belgium and has worked for the Bangladeshi Government in the Ministry of Agriculture as a scientific officer in agricultural development activities, farmer advisory services and regional land survey programs. Siddique is passionate about land resource inventory and spatio-temporal datasets, as well as the role of landholders in carbon sequestration initiatives to improve productivity, environmental protection and social well-being. Read more about Siddique here.

Siddique will be working directly with Professor David Miron on the Zero30 project.