Associate Professor
Mohammad Afzal Hossain was born in Comilla, Bangladesh. He completed his Secondary School Certificate (SSC) at Chototulagaon High School and his Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) at Adda Degree College, located in Barura, Comilla. Mr. Hossain finished his BSc Engineering and MSc Engineering degrees in Food Engineering and Tea Technology from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet. Later, he completed a second master's degree in "Sustainable Food Systems Engineering, Technology, and Business (KU Leuven et al.)" as part of the "Erasmus Mundus European Joint Masters Scholarship" program. Since 2015, Mr. Hossain has been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Engineering and Tea Technology at SUST, Bangladesh.
Mr. Hossain is broadly interested in advanced food drying technology, heat transfer phenomena, and the non-thermal processing of food. He also works on food microbiology, especially microbial growth kinetics, probiotics and product development, inactivation mechanisms of foodborne pathogens, and biofilm formation and control policy. He is also interested in Predictive Modelling and Risk Assessment of food. His research focuses on the optimization of extraction efficiency of bioactive compounds and antioxidant activity of foods of plant origin, especially from plants’ by-products.