Raised in a beautifulvillage with river-land valley to densely populated location, Mostofa completedhis education from Primary to Higher Secondary School locally from Thana-level Institutionsand then went on to attend University in Dhaka. He received his both Bachelorof Science (1990) and Master of Science (1991) degrees in Chemistry fromJahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Mostofa received his secondMaster’s degree (2001) from Nagoya University, Japan on Earth Scienceconducting research in the Lake Biwa watershed on an important issue regardingthe interactions and consequences of terrestrial (stream-river) natural organicmatter on the lake water; and doctoral degree (2005) from Hiroshima University,Japan in the field of Environmental Dynamics and Management conducting researchon Photochemistry along with the dynamics of dissolved organic matter instream-river ecosystem. Mostofa then joined as a postdoctoral fellow at theInstitute ofGeochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2006–2008. He has then been appointed as AssociateProfessor in the same Institute on 2008 and worked until December 2014. Mostofawas the founding member to join as a Professor since January 2015 at a newlyestablished– Institute of Surface-Earth System Science (ISESS), TianjinUniversity which is founded on April 2015. Mostofa worked askey researcher on several international projects, particularly on the MontrealProtocol Project entitled ‘Institutional Strengthening for the Phase out of ODSs inBangladesh’, 1996–1999, Bangladesh and the global “InternationalGeosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP)” project, 1999–2001, Japan. Mostofa servedas reviewer for several international peer-reviewed Journals. One ofhis most outstanding research works is to publish the book “Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter:Principles and Practices in Water Environments” by Springer on 2013 along withcollaboration with many distinguished International Scientists around the world.