Rate My Professor Chris Anderson

Professor Chris Anderson serves as Professor in Environmental Science, Group Leader of the Environmental Sciences group, and Director of the Farmed Landscapes Research Centre within the School of Agriculture and Environment at Massey University. He completed his BSc (Hons) in 1997 and PhD in 2000, both at Massey University. Promoted to full professorship in 2017 within the then Institute of Agriculture and Environment, Professor Anderson has built a distinguished career focused on soil science at his alma mater. As a soil chemist with expertise in environmental geochemistry, he applies novel environmental chemistry techniques—both analytical and technology-based—to tackle pressing science and technology challenges. His research emphasizes the use of plants to extract, degrade, or immobilize contaminants in soil, particularly trace elements, with extensions to organic contaminants. Professor Anderson investigates the flux of contaminants through the soil-plant-animal biogeochemical system, applying these insights to phytomining, phytoremediation, artisanal gold mining, and the management of contamination on agricultural land.