Profile

Dr Hossain has been a faculty member in the Department of Fish Biology and Genetics since October 2013. He earned his B.Sc. in Fisheries (2012) and M.Sc. in Fish Biology and Genetics (2013) from Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh. In 2016, he received the Erasmus Mundus European Excellence Scholarship for a joint M.Sc. in Marine Environment and Resources at the University of Bordeaux, the University of the Basque Country, and the University of Liège. His research focused on ovarian atresia in European hake. He was awarded a fully funded RTP CMERC PhD Fellowship and the CQU University International Excellence Award, completing his PhD in late 2025. His research examined reproductive physiology and environmental factors affecting female giant mud crabs along Queensland's coast, using ecological, molecular, and experimental methods, including field surveys and mesocosm experiments. He was a visiting PhD researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast, collaborating with the Aquaculture Biotechnology team. Dr Hossain has received awards such as the Best Oral Presentation at the 2024 Crustacean Society Summer Meeting in Taiwan, the SHMAS Research Higher Degree Mobility Fund (2023), and the Best Oral Presentation at the 2019 International Conference on Sustainable Fisheries in Bangladesh. He has over 50 publications indexed in Scopus and Web of Science and is an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE and Junior Editor for Aquaculture, Fish and Fisheries (Wiley).