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Dr. Md. Sazzad Hossain is working as an Associate Professor in the department of Agronomy and Haor Agriculture at Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, Bangladesh. He received his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (Honours) and Master of Science in Agronomy degrees from Bangladesh Agricultural University in 2007 and 2009, respectively before working as a research fellow in different national and international research project. He received NSICT government felloship during his Master's research. At the period of his working as a research fellow, he accepted a tenure position at British American Tobacco Bangladesh (BATB) as an Assistant Leaf Field Officer at the beginning of 2010. After his three months career at BATB, Dr. Hossain joinned as a Lecturer and started his teaching and research career in the department of Agronomy and Haor Agriculture at Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, Bangladesh in 24th August 2010. During this period Dr. Hossain published several articles in different renowned national journal. He had been promoted to the Assistant Professor in 2012 at the same department. In 2013, he received a prestigious DAAD fellowship for his PhD degree and completed this successfully in 2017. During his Phd research, he worked on "Cellular ROS-redox network and ion homeostasis mechanisms in sugar beet under salinity stress" under the scholastic supervision of Professor Dr. Karl-Josef Dietz and published several peer-reviewed articles in different international and well famous journal. He also attained different international seminars and conferences. After finishing his PhD, Dr. Hossain returned to the Sylhet Agricultural University and got promotion to Associate Professor in 2017. Upto now, he also published several articles in different national and international journal. Dr. Hossain was also awarded "Best publication award-2017" by the Teacher's Council, SAU, Sylhet in 2018. He played role as Chair of the BSFA/eWG/Pes-2, Bangladesh Safety Food Authority in 2019. He is a live Member of Bangladesh Agronomy society, KIB Bangladesh and was a Member of German Botanical society. He is a founder member of Interdisciplinary Research for Future Agriculture-IRFA. He worked as a member of the conference organizing committee and rapporteur in the International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development: Road to SDGs, Bangladesh. He also attended to "International Conference (BOTANIKERTAGUNG, München, Germany)" and "International Conference on Integrated Rice-Duck farming, Bangladesh". Dr. Hossain is a Reviewer of Springer Nature, European Journal of Agriculture and Food Sciences (EJFOOD), Academic Journals and JBAU. He is working as a Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Universe Publishing Group (UniversePG). His current research interest is stress physiology (abiotic and biotic stresses), molecular biology and soil-plant-environment interaction. He is also interested to do research in stress breeding and molecular biology.