Mirza
Hasanuzzaman
Professor
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University
Mirza Hasanuzzaman (Ph.D.) is a Professor of Agronomy at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (Hons.) from Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, where he achieved First Class, received a gold medal for being first in his class, and earned a Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Award. He also completed a Master of Science in Agronomy from the same university, where he was once again at top of his class with a CGPA 4.0. In 2012, he received his Ph.D. with a dissertation on ‘Plant Stress Physiology and Antioxidant Metabolism’ from the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Ehime University, Japan with a Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship. Later, he completed his postdoctoral research in the Center of Molecular Biosciences (COMB), University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan with a ‘Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)’ postdoctoral fellowship. Subsequently, he became an Adjunct Senior Researcher at the University of Tasmania with an Australian Government’s Endeavour Research Fellowship. Prof. Hasanuzzaman has over 180 publications in Web of Science (Web of Science ResearcherID: A-1665-2010). He has edited over 10 books and written over 30 book chapters on important aspects of plant physiology, plant stress responses, and environmental problems in relation to plant species. His publications are cited over 7600 times as per Scopus with an h-Index of 46 (as of May 2021). He is an Editor and a reviewer for more than 50 peer-reviewed international journals and the recipient of ‘Publons Peer Review Award 2017, 2018 and 2019’. He is acting Associate Editor of Plant Signaling & Behavior (Taylor and Francis), Biocell (Tech Science Press, USA), Phyton (Tech Science Press, USA); Academic Editor of PeerJ (USA), Plants (MDPI); and Member of the Editorial Board of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry (Elsevier), Annals of Agricultural Sciences (Elsevier) and so on. He is an active member of 40 professional societies and is the acting Research and Publication Secretary of the Bangladesh JSPS Alumni Association. He received the World Academy of Science (TWAS) Young Scientist Award 2014. He is a fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS) and a Foreign fellow of The Society for Science of Climate Change and Sustainable Environment.