Md. Sazedul Hoque

Md. Sazedul Hoque, Ph.D. is a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Fisheries Technology at Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU), Bangladesh. Dr. Hoque obtained his PhD. from Prince of Songkla University, Thailand. Before that, he completed BSc. in Fisheries (Hons) and MSc. in Fisheries Technology from Bangladesh Agricultural University. His academic, research career and international networking was further strengthened by attending more than 30 international and national seminars, workshops, and training programs in many Asian, European, and American countries.
Prof. Dr. Hoque’s research interests are in safe seafood (aquaculture and mariculture products), seafood safety and contaminants; sensory, microbial and nutritional quality of seafood products, seafood science and technology, seafood processing and quality control, value-added seafood product development, post-harvest quality and value-chain analysis of fish and fishery products, Marine pollution and conservation, occupational health & safety (OSH), livelihood improvement of small-scale/artisanal sea-going fishers, capacity building training and awareness development of coastal communities in respect to climate change and fisheries.
At his young stage of academic and research life, Prof. Dr. Hoque has published more than 50 articles in international peer-reviewed reputed journals having high impact factors of which total number of citations 1234, h-index 13 and i10-index 20 [on June 07, 2023]. Also, he has presented and participated in more than 30 international and national conferences in home and abroad with recognition of many of best oral presentation awards.
As Principal Investigator Prof. Dr. Hoque has successfully completed 16 research projects and currently 05 research projects are running that’s are funded by different international agencies like Ocean Conservancy and TeamSea under Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI) of the United States, Lloyd’s Register Foundation-LRF, United Kingdom; World-Bank through the Department of Fisheries (DoF) Bangladesh; and International Foundation for Science-IFS, Sweden, and Danish Development Agency-DANDA, Denmark. In addition, he is also awarded for research grants from national bodies like Grant for Advanced Research in Education-GARE of the Ministry of Education, Bangladesh; Bangladesh Academy of Science-United States Department of Agriculture BAS-USDA, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council-Program Based Research Grants (BARC-PBRG); University Grants Commission-UGC of Bangladesh; Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) of Bangladesh special allocation for research from the Honorable Prime Minister of Peoples Government of Bangladesh; WorldFish; Research and Training Center of PSTU (RTC-PSTU). Dr Hoque is well-known and recognized scientist in the area of coastal and marine fisheries research, and also having wide-international collaboration with the academicians, researchers and development workers globally.