Professor Md Ahsan Habib of chemistry department at Dhaka University has been appointed as an expert environmental chemist to the 21-member Independent Scientific Panel on Effects of Nuclear War of the United Nations.
He achieved the distinction as the first Bangladeshi, said a DU press release on Tuesday.
The New York-based research panel will operate under the guidance of the United Nations to assess and understand the real-world implications of nuclear war and post-nuclear accident scenarios.
Professor Ahsan Habib served as a research fellow at several Japanese universities, including the University of Tokyo and Yokohama University, as well as the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China.
Additionally, he is a visiting professor at various universities in China and Japan. Since 2024, he has been an expert member of 鈥楾he Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons,鈥� a panel formed for the international treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons.