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Dr. Shafi Mohammad Tareq is a Bangladeshi academic who served as the Professor of the Department. of Environmental Sciences, Jahangirnagar University from February 1999 to until today.

Summary of Career
Dr. Tareq was born in Jhalokati District, Barisal, Bangladesh. He has completed his B.Sc (Honors) and M.Sc. (Masters) in Chemistry from Jahangirnagar University in the year of 1995 and 1996, respectively. He obtained M.S. from Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and awarded D.Sc. from Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan. Dr. Tareq also completed Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE) from the University of Nottingham and become a fellow of higher education academy, UK. In his early career, he worked as a Japanese Society for Promotion of Science,(JSPS) postdoctoral fellow at Nagoya University and the University of Shiga Prefecture. He also worked as a founder faculty member and chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences, Jahangirnagar University and adjunct faculty at the University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Dr. Tareq worked as a visiting researcher in the University of Shiga Prefecture and Hokkaido University, Japan. He also worked as a commonwealth academic fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. Recently, he worked as an associate professor at the School of Bioscience, the University of Nottingham. He has published significant papers on arsenic pollution in groundwater of Bangladesh and Nepal as well as paleovegetation and climate changes in tropical and sub-tropical areas. He got a very prestigious Bangladesh Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Science BAS-TWAS young scientist gold medal, 2013 for his outstanding contribution to national science and technology. Dr. Tareq enlisted as Fellow (FRSC) and Charted Environmentalist (CEnv) in Royal Chemical Society, UK. To date, he has been published more than sixty papers in refereed journals (with total citation more than 1240 and h-index 16) and contributed several chapters in books published by international publisher like Elsevier and Springer. He presented his research in many international conferences in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. His contribution to lignin molecular biogeochemistry published as a book titled "Lignin Molecular Biogeochemistry: Principles and Practices " from international publisher, USA. Currently he is working as a professor of the department of Environmental Sciences, Jahangirnagar University

Teaching and Research Interest
•	Water, Health and Sustainability

•	Hydro-BioGeochemistry and Climate Changes

•	Environmental Pollution and Public Health

•	Environmental Impact Assessment

•	Environmental Health, Safety and Risk Assessment

Award/ Fellowship/ Biography listed
Bangladesh Academy of Science and the World Academy of Science (BAS-TWAS) gold medal award (2013) for outstanding contribution to national science and technology

•	Commonwealth Academic Fellowship (CSC), UK, 2013]

•	Best oral presentation award at the 4th Asia-Oceania Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry 2013]

•	Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO)] visiting researcher fellowship, 2011-2012 •	Best researcher award from Nutandara foundation, Bangladesh 2011. •	Biography listed in the International Biographical Centre (IBC), Cambridge, England (Edition, 2007).

•	Biography listed in the Whos Who in the World (23ard Edition, 2006; Published from USA).

•	Hori information science promotion foundation award, Aichi, Japan (April 2005)

•	International Hydrological Programme (IHP) Ph. D. fellowship under the recommendation of IHP-UNESCO. 2003-2006.

•	Japanese ministry of education, culture, sports, science and technology (Monbukagakusho) scholarship, 2001-2003.