Profile

Prof. Dr. Mohammad Samiul Ahsan Talucder was born in 1982 at Bogura District in a respectable Muslim family. Prof. Dr. Talucder is specialized in agroforestry, climate smart agriculture, neglected & underutilized species, food security, and agrometeorology toward sustainable agricultural and forest services. He did his Ph.D. in agricultural & forest meteorology at Seoul National University, South Korea. Dr. Talucder pursued a B.Sc.Ag.(Hons.) degree with first class and an M.S. in Agroforestry with first class from the Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh. He passed the SSC from Shahnoori Model High School, Dhaka and the HSC from Bangladesh Rifles School & College, Dhaka. Dr. Talucder joined as a scientific officer in January 2007 at the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Gazipur, for a short period of time. During March 2007, he joined the Patuakhali Science and Technology University as a lecturer under the Department of Agroforestry until 07 April, 2008. On 08 April, 2008, he joined the Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU) as a lecturer under the Department of Agroforestry and Environmental Science and has been serving as a professor (Grade 2) under the same department to date. He was the founding chairman of the Department of Agroforestry and Environmental Science and also chairman (in charge) of the Department of Horticulture, SAU. Prof. Dr. Talucder was the Assistant Provost of M. Saifur Rahman Hall of SAU. He also took the responsibility of Additional Director (Student Counseling & Guidance) of this university for a short period of time (from 02 December, 2024, to 16 March, 2025). He was also the Dean (In-Charge) of the faculty of Biotechnology & Genetic engineering of SAU for a short period of time. He has been serving as Director (Student Counseling & Guidance) and Associate Director (Research) since 17 March, 2025, and 23 August, 2024, respectively. He is also serving as the founding secretary of the Sylhet Agricultural University Rover Scout Group. Prof. Dr. Talucder has been serving as the honorable member of the board of directors of the Rural Development Academy (RDA) Bogura. He has published at least forty-nine (49) research articles in different national and international journals and attended at least twelve conferences at home and abroad. As Principal Investigator (PI), he has experience handling fourteen (14) nationally and internationally funded research projects. Recently, he is awarded a “Higher Education and Acceleration and Transformation (HEAT)” project entitled “Establishment of Technology Transfer Office (TTO) at Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU) for Governing Intellectual Property-based Academia-Industry-Business Nexus” implemented by University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh and funded by World Bank as SPM (PI). Meanwhile, thirty-one (31) MS students graduated under his supervision, and seventeen (17) MS students graduated under his co-supervision. Currently, he is supervising three PhD students. He is serving as the executive editor of the Journal of Sylhet Agricultural University and also as the associate editor of the Journal of Agroforestry and Environment. He is married to veterinary microbiologist Dr. Nahid Arjuman Banu and blessed with a son, Ahnaf Ahsan, and a daughter, Arwa Ahsan.