Dr Abdus Salam completed his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Master of Science in Physical-Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Dhaka. He did his PhD in Atmospheric Analytical Chemistry at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, and York University, Ontario, Canada. He is the Principal Investigator of two atmospheric science research observatories (Urban Dhaka and coastal Bhola Island) in Bangladesh. He has collaborated with several esteemed organizations such as NASA in the USA, Stockholm University in Sweden, Dalhousie University in Canada, the University of Washington in St. Louis in the USA, the University of Wisconsin, Duke University in the USA, Akita Prefectural University and Shibaura Institute of Technology in Japan, Academia Sinica in Taiwan, the University of Bristol in the UK, and the Center of Research for Environment Energy and Water in Nepal, among others. His research interests are atmospheric chemistry, air quality, and impacts on human health, climate change, and ecosystems. He has been organizing many national and international workshops and conferences at home and abroad. He has been actively participating in electronic and print media’s interview/talk show on air pollution, its causes, impacts and mitigations. He has been serving in various international committees including International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) as a Co-Chair.