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Dr. Md. Sazzad Hossain is a Professor in the Department of Agronomy and Haor Agriculture at Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, Bangladesh. He was born in Cumilla, Bangladesh in 1983. He completed his Secondary and Higher Secondary School Certificate Examinations from the Cumilla Board in 1999 and 2001, respectively. Professor Hossain received his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (Honours) and Master of Science in Agronomy degrees from Bangladesh Agricultural University in 2007 and 2009, respectively. During his postgraduate study, he worked as a research fellow in various national and international research projects. He received NSICT government fellowship during his Master's research. In early 2010, he joined British American Tobacco Bangladesh (BATB) as an Assistant Leaf Field Officer before joining as a Lecturer at Sylhet Agricultural University. Professor Hossain joined as a Lecturer and started his teaching and research career in the Department of Agronomy and Haor Agriculture at Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, Bangladesh on 24 August 2010. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in the same department in 2012. Professor Hossain received a prestigious DAAD fellowship for his Ph.D. in 2013 and completed it in 2017. During his doctoral research, he worked on "Cellular ROS-redox network and ion homeostasis mechanisms in sugar beet under salinity stress" under the academic supervision of Professor Dr. Karl-Josef Dietz. He has also participated in various international seminars and conferences. After completing his PhD, Professor Hossain returned to the Sylhet Agricultural University and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017. He became Professor in the same department in 2021. Professor Hossain was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for his two terms of postdoctoral research (2021-2024; 2024-2025). During his postdoctoral research, he worked with Professor Dr. Karl Hermann Mühling at the Kiel University, Germany. Professor Hossain has published several articles in various reputed national and international journals. Professor Hossain was also awarded the "Best Publication Award 2017" by the Teacher's Council, SAU, Sylhet in 2018. He was Chair of the BSFA/eWG/Pes-2, Bangladesh Safety Food Authority in 2019. He is a live Member of sever professional and scientific societies including Bangladesh Agronomy Society, KIB Bangladesh, BSSS, CSSB, BAES, and was a Member of the German Botanical Society. He is a founding member of Interdisciplinary Research for Future Agriculture-IRFA. He was a conference organizing committee member and rapporteur at the International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development: Road to SDGs, Bangladesh. He also participated in "The International Conference (BOTANIKERTAGUNG, München, Germany)" and "International Conference on Integrated Rice-Duck Farming, Bangladesh". Professor Hossain is Associate Editor of the Frontiers in Plant Science, Acta Agricultural Science and Trends in Current Biology. Besides, he is a reviewer for Springer-Nature, Wiley, Elsevier, Frontiers in Plant Science, Peer J, Science Direct, MDPI, European Journal of Agriculture and Food Sciences (EJFOOD), Academic Journals, and JBAU. He is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Universe Publishing Group (UniversePG). His current research interests include plant stress physiology, soil salinity, plant nutrition, and soil-plant-environment interactions.