Professor Dr. Mesbahuddin Ahmad
Formar Vice Chancellor, Gono Bishwabidyalay
President, Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
E-mail: [email protected]
Education
1958 M.Sc. In Chemistry, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1963 Ph.D in organic Chemistry, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
1967-69 Postdoctoral Science Research Fellow, Imperial College of Science
& Technology, University of London, London, UK
1974-75 Postdoctoral Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow,
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
1984-1989 Postdoctoral Fellow of International Programme in Chemical
Sciences of Uppsala University at Royal Institute of Science
& Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Major Activities
1959-60 Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
1964-67 Senior Research Officer, East Regional Laboratories Dhaka of
Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
1969-72 Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Chittagong,
Chittagong,Bangladesh
1972-76 Associate Professor of Chemistry, Jahangirnagar University, Savar,
Dhaka,Bangladesh
1976-2003 Professorof Chemistry, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka,
Bangladesh
1998-2002 Member, University Grants Commission of Bangladesh,
Sher-e-Banglanagar, Agargaon, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh
1992-1995 President, Bangladesh Chemical Society
1997 Fellow, Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
2008-2016 Vice-Chancellor, Gono Gonobishwabidalay, Savar, Dhaka,
Bangladesh
2012 President, Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
Honors
1960-63 Commonwealth Academic Scholarship
1974-75 Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow
2010 Honorary Fellow of the Bangladesh Chemical Society
Research interest
Natural Product Chemistry, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Natural Polymers
Publications
More than 75 publications in the journals of national and international repute
