Md Amirul Alam

Biography:

Dr. Md Amirul Alam completed his Bachelor degree (B.Sc.) in “Agriculture” from Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU), Bangladesh and Master of Science in “Genetics and Plant Breeding” from Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU). Then he started working as “Plant Breeder” at Lal Teer Seed Limited (formerly East-West Seed Bangladesh Ltd.) and continued since August 2011. He was awarded PhD fellowship by Emerging Nations Science Foundation (ENSF, Italy) and International Graduate Research Fellowship (IGRF - UPM Malaysia) and obtained his PhD in “Agronomy” from Putra University Malaysia (UPM) and continued working as Postdoctoral researcher since December 2015. After that he joined as “Senior Lecturer” at the Sultan Zainal Abidin University (UniSZA), Terengganu, Malaysia and continued working since June 2018. In July 2018 he started working as “Senior Lecturer” at University Malaysia Sabah (UMS) and currently working there. Dr. Alam is already very well-known as professional reviewer of various international peer reviewed journals and already reviewed 67 journal manuscripts and published about 80 research articles. Dr. Alam’s current Google Scholar h-index is 19, RG score 25.73 with h-index 18 and Scopus h-index 14. He is now working on nutritional biofortification of several crops through agronomic and breeding approach; evaluation of indigenous, underutilized crop plants along with diverse weed germplasms to find out alternative food crops for the future to mitigate the effect of climate change on food security and sustainability. He is also involved in microgreen productions and quality seed production of various crops