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Mr. Hossain has been engaged as a devoted teaching and research faculty at the Department of Fish Biology and Genetics since October 2013. He obtained his B.Sc. Fisheries (Honours.) in 2012 and M.Sc. in Fish Biology and Genetics in 2013 from the Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh. In 2016, he was awarded the European Best Excellence scholarship "Erasmus Mundus" to commence his second Joint European M.Sc. in Marine Environment and Resource at the University of Bordeaux, France, University of Pais Vasco, Spain, University of Liege, Belgium, and the University of Southampton, UK. He worked to establish molecular mechanisms of atretic events in European hake’s ovary for his European M.Sc. thesis research. Hereafter, in December 2020 he was awarded an approved RTP CMERC Ph.D. fellowship and International Excellence Award (100 % Tuition) from CQUniversity, Australia to commence his doctoral degree (a pause between Jan 2021 to Mar 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Australian border restriction). His current thesis research is entitled “Female mud crabs (Scylla serrata) in Queensland’s East Coast Fishery: Investigating life history and reproductive characteristics”. A composite of ecological, biological, molecular, field, and mesocosms trials will be employed to address the research question. He also enrolled in the University of Sunshine Coast, Australia as a visiting PhD research student and works with the Aquaculture Biotechnology, Centre for BioInnovation team. He is highly interested in the molecular and reproductive biology of aquatic invertebrates, pollution, and climate change's impact on them. He already has worked on establishing freshwater mussels as an indicator of water pollution in northeast Bangladesh.