Prof. Dr. Md. Shahjahan, Department of Fisheries Management, has been elected as Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS) fellow for his outstanding contribution in the Science.To date, 8 PhD and more than 70 MS students completed their degree under the supervision of Prof. Shahjahan. Currently he is supervising 4 more PhD students and 10 MS students in the field of fish ecophysiology. Prof. Shahjahan has set up Laboratory of Fish Ecophysiology in 2017 at BAU. He has been researching on various aspects of the impacts of environmental (temperature, light, salinity etc.) and anthropogenic (pesticides, heavy metals etc.) factors on fish physiology, especially growth and reproduction. His research has led to the implementation of policy directives for government and new technology to manage and remediate contamination of fish as well as food. Prof. Shahjahan has earned much reputation as a researcher with the highest degree of scientific accomplishments. He has completed 12 research projects as PI, funded by national and international organizations. Presently he is acting as a PI of 2 research projects. Prof. Dr. Md. Shahjahan’s accomplishments cover many areas of fish endocrinology, physiology, toxicology and Aquaculture. He has now 167 research publications, of which 127 papers have been published in the Scopus indexed international journals and the rest 40 papers in the national journals. His research results have been published in the internationally reputed impact factors journals, such as Reviews in Aquaculture (IF:8.8), Science of the Total Environment (IF:8.2), Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (IF:6.2), Marine Pollution Bulletin (IF:5.3), Fish and Shellfish Immunology (IF:4.1), Aquaculture (IF:3.9) etc.His current total cumulative IF is 281.3. As per Google scholar citation, his current h-index is 41 with 5122 citations. He presented his research findings in many international seminars /conferences /workshops held in Australia, Japan, China, Thailand, Malaysia, India, and Bangladesh. Prof. Shahjahan received UGC Gold Medal Award for 2013 & 2018, BAS Gold Medal Award 2015, best publication awards and a number of other awards for his outstanding research performances.He also included in World top 2% scientist in 2023 and 2024 published by Elsevier and Stanford University, USA.
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