Education

Dates: October 2016 – June 2020

Qualification: Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Geography and the Environment

Institution: School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK

Funding: Commonwealth PhD Scholarships

Thesis title: The legacy of polders: Diagnosing complex flooding processes and adaptation options in the coastal region of Bangladesh

Subject areas: Flood risk modelling, assessment of coastal flood infrastructure, extreme value analysis, land-use change, Geographic Information System (GIS), spatial statistics, and remote sensing

Research groups: Environmental Change Institute; Oxford Water Network; REACH

Dates: September 2012 – August 2014

Qualification: M.Sc. in International Cooperation and Urban Development

Institution: Technische Universität Darmstadt (TUD), Germany

Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Funding: Erasmus Mundus Scholarships

Subject areas: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Urban Planning, Statistics and database management, GIS, and remote sensing

Dates: March 2004 - March 2009

Qualification: Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning

Institution: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Subject areas: Urban Planning Techniques, Disaster Management, Transportation planning and management, Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, GIS, and remote sensing

Dates: July 2001 - June 2003

Qualification: Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)

Institution: Savar Cantonment Public School and College, Bangladesh

Subject areas: Science

Dates: January 1999 - June 2001

Qualification: Secondary School Certificate (SSC)

Institution: Raiganj Pilot High School, Bangladesh

Subject areas: Science