About Me, Teaching, Advising/Supervision & Research Collaboration/Opportunity

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and Environment, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. My research focus is on natural hazards, risk perception, climate risk management and urban resilience, in particular focus on flood risk management in urban areas. My research areas are therefore, concerned with interactions between interdisciplinary themes including Flood Risk Management; Natural Hazards, Risk, and Emergency Management; Climate Variability; and Hydrology.

I completed my PhD at the School of Engineering of Newcastle University, UK. My doctoral advisors were Prof. Claire Walsh and Prof. Hayley Fowler. I obtained my Masters and Bachelor's degree (First Class with 1^st and 7^th position respectively) in Geography and Environment at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

In my PhD I worked on Urban Flood Risk Management problem in Dhaka (in particular focus on the water logging risk problem in the 32 vulnerable wards of the two city corporations’ areas of Dhaka city) in terms of ‘Citizen Science’ approach/concept together with the ‘extreme rainfall pattern and trends’ of Dhaka City. In addition, my research identified the flood extent- flood water inundation depth and flood exposure of the buildings in two case-study catchments in the two city corporations’ areas of Dhaka by applying the hydrodynamic model, CityCAT. Altogether my research quantified both the quantitative and qualitative aspects to analyse urban flooding/water logging risk in Dhaka and proposed a “new holistic framework” to manage the urban flooding risk situation in the city.

I was affiliated with Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research as a member of Newcastle University PhD Researcher. During my time with Tyndall Centre, I attended various on-line and few in-person workshops and seminars under the themes: “Catalysing adaptation and resilience” & “Achieving well-being”; and also attended and participated (in-person) in one Tyndall Annual Assembly (Tyndall Assembly 2022; was held in Newcastle upon Tyne in September 2022).

Prior to the University of Dhaka, I was in the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (a leading research organisation in Bangladesh) in its "Celebration of 400 Years of Capital Dhaka Programme", where I worked as an Associate Research Coordinator.

Teaching

Currently I am teaching the following Courses (both at Masters and Undergraduate levels):

• GETh 512: Hydrology (Masters theory course)
• GETh 532: Urbanization and Urban System (Masters theory course)
• GETh 303: Climatology (Undergraduate theory course; joint course teacher)
• GELb 308: GIS: Advanced Data Concepts and Spatial Analysis (Undergraduate lab course; joint course teacher)
• GELb 208: Research Methods and Fieldwork in Human Geography and Environment (Undergraduate lab course; joint course teacher)

Advising/Supervision

Currently I am supervising one Masters student [Co-supervisor of MS Thesis; please see the Project/Research Supervision (Masters level SL. No. 12) part under the Research Activities section of my profile]

Note: Unfortunately, I am or will be not available to supervise any M.Phil/PhD student for the current Academic Session. But, please get in contact if you are interested to work with me for any future opportunity.

Research Collaboration/Opportunity

I am very willing to discuss with ideas for any potential research collaboration with other academics/researchers. So, please feel free to contact me for any relevant potential research collaboration.