Dr. Paul E. Fixen
Senior Vice President, Americas Group
Coordinator, and Director of Research

Dr. Fixen is Senior Vice President, Americas Group Coordinator, and Director of Reseach of the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI). He is located in Brookings, South Dakota. In this position he coordinates the Institute’s activities in North and South America and directs its research program.

Dr. Fixen grew up on a farm in southwestern Minnesota and received his Ph.D. at Colorado State University. Before joining the staff of the Potash & Phosphate Institute in 1989, he spent 9 years in research and teaching in soil fertility at the University of Wisconsin and South Dakota State University. In these positions, he authored or co-authored over 150 articles related to soil fertility including several book chapters.

Dr. Fixen has served on many scientific committees and has been active on several boards, including those of the Certified Crop Adviser (CCA) program. He has served as an associate editor for the Soil Science Society of America Journal, as Chair of the Fertilizer Management and Technology Division of the Soil Science Society of America, as President of the North Central Branch of the America Society of Agronomy, and currently serves on the editorial board of the new international Precision Agriculture journal. He is a Fellow in the American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science Society of America. In 2007, he was named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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