Biography

Dr. Md. Tanvir Rahman is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Science at Bangladesh Agricultural University and former Director of International Desk, and Director of Prof. Mohammad Hossain Central Lab of Bangladesh Agricultural University.

He is also a Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Science (BAS). He is an Adjunct Visiting Professor of Xinxiang University, Henan, China. Dr. Rahman completed DVM from Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in 1993. Later he completed MSc and PhD from University of Guelph, Canada and University of Warwick, UK respectively and Postdoc from the Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany.

Earlier Dr. Rahman worked as Consultant for the Government of Bangladesh, PI for LPVRPC(Livestock and Poultry Vaccine Research and Production Centre), Bangladesh Agricultural University and Department of Microbiology and Hygiene, BAU, He was also the former , and Ex-Head of the Department of Microbiology and Hygiene, BAU, Technical expert committee for the development of AMR surveillance protocol, Department of Livestock Services, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. And also the member, Technical Committee on Biological Risk and Biosecurity, Bangladesh Food Safety Authority, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. He is also a team member of OHAC (One Health Action Commission) , Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai, China.

His major expertise includes antibiotic resistance, molecular ecology, virulence and public health. So far he has published more than 203 papers in peer-reviewed National and International journals (Total IF around 500, H inmdex=41, citation over 5400) including Veterinary Microbiology, The ISME Journal, Microbial Drug Resistance, Journal of Bacteriology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology etc. As a research team leader, Dr. Rahman has worked as supervisor and co-supervisor for 100 MS and PhD students. Dr. Rahman is also working as the member of the editorial board of several peer-reviewed journals including Bangladesh Veterinary Journal, Veterinary Infectious Diseases (Frontiers in Veterinary Science), Frontiers in Terrestrial Microbiology. Microbiological Research (Elsevier). Veterinary World etc and Academic Editor, PLOS ONE and Editor, Scientific Reports.

He is also the National Committee Member for:

Technical expert committee for the development of AMR surveillance protocol, Department of Livestock Service, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

Technical Committee on Biological Risk and Biosecurity, Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA), Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

Member, Food Hygiene and Safety Management Sectional Committee (AFSC-25). Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institutions (BSTI)f Bangladesh.

Member, Committee on Microbiology-1 (Dairy), Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA), Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

For details: https://www.sites.google.com/site/tanvirahman/

Email: tanvirahman@bau.edu.bd