Vice Chancellor

(Professor Dr. M. Jamaluddin Ahmed, CSci., CChem., FRSC,FRS)

Vice Chancellor, Feni University 

 

Pof. Dr. M. Jamaluddin Ahmed was born in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh. He has an illustrious career with outstanding contributions as an academician, chemist, and an initiator of analytical culture in Bangladesh. He has excellent academic and Professional careers. He is an eminent scientist and a genuine patriot. He served in the Department of Chemistry, University of Chittagong (CU) for 41 years from1981, first as a Lecturer and finally as a Selection Grade (Grade-1) Professor since 1995. Recently he  joined as the Vice Chancellor, Feni University, Feni-3900. He is also  former Professor, Dean, Provost at CU & Chairman of the Department of Chemistry of CU and the former Visiting Professor at the Center of Excellence in Analytical Chemistry; University of Sindh, produced 4 PhD under MoU. He is also former Dean, Faculty of Science & Engineering at ASA University, Dhaka. His main field of work is in Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Pharmaceutical, Food, Nutrition & Nano-Chemistry. He obtained his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Jadavpur University, India in 1990  under Govt. India Scholarship and worked as postdoctoral researcher in several European, Australian and Asian Universities, including Loughborough University, UK under Commonwealth Fellowship; University of Ioannina, Greece, The University of Queensland, Australia and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing under TWAS Fellowship. He supervised research works of more than 120 post-graduate students (12 PhD, 8 M. Phil & more than 100 MS students) at home & abroad. His research activities over last 41 years resulted over 240 publications in leading International Journals including 225 research publications in Peer Reviewed MCI International Journals, 1 patent, and 8 research books published by major European Presses with total impact factor = 538.6, number of citations ˃ 18,995, RG Score=51.47, h-index=59, i10-index=180,  and Reads ˃ 2,72,995 (Web of Science). He has participated several International and National Conferences at home and abroad and presented 65 research articles as Theme, Plenary, Keynote and Invited Lectures & Conducted the 35 Technical Sessions as Chair. Prof. Ahmed has been honored by several prestigious Fellowships and Awards including Elected Fellow Chartered Chemist of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC CChem), Life Fellow of Royal Society(FRS),TWAS & UNESCO. Elected Life Member of American Chemical Society & IUPAC. He was Awarded Chartered Scientist (CSci.) by European Science Council (EU) in 2004 and Chartered Chemist (CChem.) by Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 1993. He was Executive Editor of CUJS & Editor of several reputed Journals at home & abroad. He is the founding General Secretary, BCS & Convener of Chemistry Olympiad of Bangladesh Chemical  Society of Chittagong Region. He is also Life Member of  BCS, NITUB, SBBMB, BSBiodiversity, BES, BComS & BAAS.