About the Editors
Md. Nazrul Islam is a permanent Professor at the
Department of Geography and Environment in
Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Prof. Nazrul has completed his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Also, he has completed a
Two-Year Standard JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Prof.
Nazrul’s fields of interest include environmental and
ecological modeling, climate change impact on aquatic
ecosystems, modeling of phytoplankton transition,
harmful algae, and marine ecosystems regarding hydrodynamic ecosystems-coupled models on coastal seas,
bays, and estuaries, and the application of computerbased programming for numerical simulation modeling.
Prof. Nazrul is an expert on scientific research techniques and methods to develop models for environmental systems analysis research. Prof. Nazrul has also
visited as an invited speaker in several foreign universities in Japan, the USA, Australia, UK, Canada, China,
South Korea, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam. Prof. Nazrul
has been awarded the “Best Young Researcher Award”
by the International Society of Ecological Modeling
(ISEM) for outstanding contribution to the Ecological
Modeling Field, 2013, Toulouse, France, and he has
also been awarded “Best Paper Presenter Award 2010”
by SautaiN in Kyoto, Japan. He has also been awarded a
“Best Poster Presenter Award” at the Techno Ocean
Conference, Kobe City Exhibition Hall, at Kobe in
Japan.
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Md. Nazrul Islam is a permanent Professor at the
Department of Geography and Environment in
Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Prof. Nazrul has completed his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Also, he has completed a
Two-Year Standard JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Prof.
Nazrul’s fields of interest include environmental and
ecological modeling, climate change impact on aquatic
ecosystems, modeling of phytoplankton transition,
harmful algae, and marine ecosystems regarding hydrodynamic ecosystems-coupled models on coastal seas,
bays, and estuaries, and the application of computerbased programming for numerical simulation modeling.
Prof. Nazrul is an expert on scientific research techniques and methods to develop models for environmental systems analysis research. Prof. Nazrul has also
visited as an invited speaker in several foreign universities in Japan, the USA, Australia, UK, Canada, China,
South Korea, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam. Prof. Nazrul
has been awarded the “Best Young Researcher Award”
by the International Society of Ecological Modeling
(ISEM) for outstanding contribution to the Ecological
Modeling Field, 2013, Toulouse, France, and he has
also been awarded “Best Paper Presenter Award 2010”
by SautaiN in Kyoto, Japan. He has also been awarded a
“Best Poster Presenter Award” at the Techno Ocean
Conference, Kobe City Exhibition Hall, at Kobe in
Japan.
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