About Dr. Rahman

Biography

Azizur Rahman, Ph.D., is currently serving as a Research Head/Director of the Center for Climate Change Research (CCCR), University of Toronto (ONRamp at UTE), and President of the Environmental Solutions, under the entrepreneurship program of ICUBE, University of Toronto at Mississauga. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Ryukyus, Japan and conducted his postdoctoral studies at the Department of Chemistry, University of Ryukyus, funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS). He also served as Humboldt Fellow (funded by Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation) at the University of Munich, Germany for two years. After completion of his Humboldt fellowship, he joined at the University of Toronto in 2013. He pursues a broad range of research interests that include environment and climate change, freshwater/marine biology, drug discovery, biomineralization, inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry, biotechnology, and protein biochemistry. Dr. Rahman has authored more than 100 scientific articles, several books, and many book chapters. His interdisciplinary research has been recognized by over 20 major national and international awards, including several best paper awards and a gold medal. He is a recipient of the Presidential Honorary Award for Scientists, the highest honor given by the University of Ryukyus in Japan for outstanding novel research findings. Dr. Rahman also received the Top Peer-Reviewers Award (2017 - 2020) recognized by the Publons. See his medal at the Publons: https://publons.com/a/1204646

He is currently serving as an Editorial Board of the International Journals “Marine Drugs”, “Polysaccharides”, and “Journal of Marine Science and Engineering”, and Editor with four special issues on these journals. Dr. Rahman serves as a reviewer for the Science Magazine, Marine Drugs, Scientific Reports
(Nature Publishing Group), Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Nature Materials, Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), ChemBioChem, Process Biochemistry, Marine Biotechnology, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters, Materials Chemistry and Physics, The Biological Bulletin, Applied Water Science (Springer), Current Organic Chemistry, and Database (Oxford University Press), among others.

Dr. Rahman is passionate about Science in promoting communities through innovation and entrepreneurship and by applying his diverse background. He is also a serial entrepreneur who has founded a number of companies and non-profit organizations strapped to social innovation and the science community.

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