Prof. Dr. Md. Saiful Islam

Teaching and supervision • Supervises graduate research at PSTU; his university profile lists 17 theses as supervisor or co-supervisor, including 2 PhD and 15 MS students, on topics such as soil salinity mitigation, heavy metals in leafy vegetables near the Payra Thermal Power Plant, coastal water quality and toxic metal(loid)s in coal-basin soils. Professional activities • Invited speaker and session chair at international conferences on biological and environmental sciences • Member of organising committees and international advisory boards for conferences in Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Madagascar, Canada and the USA • Editorial board member and peer reviewer for international journals • Director, Central Laboratory, Patuakhali Science and Technology University • Research collaborations with scientists in Japan, the UK, Germany, Australia, the Netherlands, South Korea, the USA and Canada Selected funded research projects • Role of Japan in the socioeconomic development of Bangladesh through arsenic detoxification in rice - The Sumitomo Foundation, Japan (2024) • Heavy metal profiles in soil and water and their transport in leafy vegetables in southern coastal Bangladesh - UGC Bangladesh, CP04 (2023-2024) • Assessment of water quality of multiple water sources in the south-central coastal region of Bangladesh - PSTU (2023-2024) • Evaluation of surface water quality from reservoirs around the Payra Thermal Power Plant - PSTU (2022-2023) • Baseline assessment of toxic elements in dust and tube-well water at primary school yards - Ministry of Science and Technology, Bangladesh (2022-2023) • Toxic elements in environmental matrices and achieving the SDGs in Bangladesh - FORMAS network grant, Sweden (2022-2023) • Assessment of marine litter on the Bay of Bengal coast of Bangladesh (2022) • Physiological characterisation of rice genotypes under different salinity levels - RECSA-OKP-BGD, Netherlands (2021-2022) • Landrace rice cultivars for high-salinity and low-nitrogen adaptation - GARE, BANBEIS (2021-2024) • Environmental impact assessment of heavy metals around the Payra Thermal Power Plant - PSTU (2021-2022) • Toxic elements in the environment of Bangladesh: a probabilistic risk assessment - King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia (2021-2022) • Organic soil amendments and fertiliser use for crop yield under saline conditions - RECSA-OKP-BGD, Netherlands (2020-2022) • Sustainable eco-technology for removing toxic metals from pharmaceutical wastewater using modified biopolymers and bio-based nanocomposites - Kurita Water and Environment Foundation, Japan (2020-2021) • Application of organic soil amendments and silicon for rice yield under saline conditions - PSTU