Dr. Shafi Mohammad Tareq completed B.Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. in Chemistry from Jahangirnagar University and obtained M.S. in Environmental Science and D.Sc. from Nagoya University, Japan. He also completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education from the University of Nottingham and became a fellow of higher education academy, U.K. In his early career, he worked as a Japanese Society for Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellow at Nagoya University and a commonwealth academic fellow at the University of Birmingham, U.K. Dr. Tareq worked as a founding faculty member and chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences, Jahangirnagar University. He also worked as an associate professor at the School of Bioscience, the University of Nottingham. He is skilled in environmental monitoring and assessment with a special focus on hydrobiogeochemistry, pollution-related health risk and fate and transport of dissolved organic matter and emerging chemicals in the aquatic ecosystem. Dr. Tareq published around 100 papers in refereed journals with total citations of 2020 and received the very prestigious Bangladesh Academy of Science and the World Academy of Science (BAS-TWAS) young scientist gold medal, 2013. Dr. Tareq enlisted as a Fellow (FRSC) and Charted Environmentalist (CEnv) in the Royal Chemical Society, U.K. He presented his research at many international conferences in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. His contribution to lignin molecular biogeochemistry was published in a book titled “Lignin Molecular Biogeochemistry: Principles and Practices” from the USA. Currently, he is working as a professor of the Department of Environmental Sciences, Jahangirnagar University.