Dr. Shafi Mohammad Tareq is a prominent environmental scientist and educator in Bangladesh. Dr. Tareq completed B.Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. in Chemistry from Jahangirnagar University and obtained an M.S. in Environmental Science and was awarded a D.Sc. from Nagoya University, Japan. He completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE) at the University of Nottingham and became a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, U.K. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and a Commonwealth academic fellow, UK. Dr. Tareq also worked as an associate professor at the School of Bioscience, the University of Nottingham. He also worked as a founding faculty member and chairman of the Department of Environmental Sciences at Jahangirnagar University. Dr. Tareq was a visiting researcher at the University of Shiga Prefecture and Hokkaido University, Japan. Dr Tareq is skilled in environmental monitoring and assessment, focusing on emerging pollution-related health risks, hydrobiogeochemistry, and the fate and transport of dissolved organic matter and emerging chemicals, including microplastics, Fluorescent Whitening Agents (FWA) and antibiotics in freshwater and the food chain. Dr Tareq first identified microplastics in freshwater fishes of Bangladesh, which was highlighted in many national and international media, including the BBC and Al-Jazeera TV. He also first investigated the Arsenic in the groundwater of the Nepalese terai region. Dr Tareq established the Hydrobiogeochemistry and Pollution Control Laboratory at Jahangirnagar University. Dr Tareq published more than 150 papers in refereed journals with a total citation of 5000+ (h-index 37, i10-index 83) and received the very prestigious Bangladesh Academy of Science and the World Academy of Science (BAS-TWAS) Young Scientist Gold Medal, 2013 and BAS Gold Medal (senior group) in 2024. Dr Tareq enlisted as a Fellow (FRSC) and Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) in the Royal Chemical Society, U.K. He is also a Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Science. He worked as an editor/editorial board member and guest editor of several national/international journals, including Frontier Earth Science, Sustainability, Frontiers in Water, and the Editorial Board Members of Hygiene and Environmental Health Advances, Elsevier, and Discover Environment, Discover Applied Science of Springer Nature. His contribution to lignin molecular biogeochemistry was published as a book titled "Lignin Molecular Biogeochemistry: Principles and Practices".