Md. Arif Chowdhury is a Assistant Professor in the Department of Climate and Disaster Management, Jashore University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. In the past, Mr. Chowdhury served as the Research Associate of the Institute of Water and Flood Management, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology from 2015 through 2020. He had obtained his MSc degree in Climate Change and Development from the Independent University, Bangladesh. He also had completed Masters in Disaster Management from Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies, University of Dhaka. He had completed his BSc in Environmental Science from Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.

He achieved several research awards and grants to conduct research, such as, NST (National Science and Technology) Fellowship scholarship in 2018 in Physical Science section from Ministry of Science and Technology, the Government of People's Republic of Bangladesh. He also awarded with the Young Researcher Fellowship 2019 to conduct research on "MHM for Women and Girls with Disabilities in Dhaka" provided by Sharenet Bangladesh (https://menstrualhygieneday.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/MHM-for-people-withdisabilities_research_Bangladesh.pdf), and grant on The Trans-boundary Rivers for Our Sustainable Advancement (TROSA) project of Center for Natural Resource Studies (CNRS).

He also completed the Gobeshona Young Researcher Programme 2017 at the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), sponsored by USAID, Bangladesh.

Besides his professional career, he has experience on voluntary engagement and work innational and international level. He worked as Active Citizen and participated in International Study Visit 2015 in Uganda. He also completed the South Asia Journalism and climate change adaptation workshop and finished the article hackathon challenge and contributed in the team during the 5^th Asia Pacific Adaptation forum held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Also, he worked as facilitator during World Humanitarian Summit-Global Youth Consultation in September 2015, Doha, Qatar. Also, Mr. Arif Participated 5th Asian Youth Summit 2017 in Osaka, Japan organized by Japan Asian Association and Asian Friendship Society, and Oxfam Global Strategy Forum 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Mr. Arif presented his research articles in several national and international conferences including Gobeshona conference (2016, 2017, and 2020), INSEARCH conference, 2015, National Conference on Natural Sciences and Technology- NCNST 2014, International Conference on Water and Flood Management (2017) etc.

His research areas include Disaster management and vulnerability assessment, Climate change and extreme events, Migration and adaptation, Governance, Carbon sequestration and floral diversity.

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