Dr. Mohammad Zashim Uddin

Dr. Mohammad Zashim Uddin is a Professor and Director of the Dhaka University Botanical Garden in the Department of Botany at the University of Dhaka. His scholarship is focused on plant taxonomy, ethnobotany, and forest ecology in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. He conducts coursework in systematic botany, ethnobotany, and conservation biology. He leads extensive botanical expeditions documenting traditional medicinal plants used by indigenous healers and discovering newly recorded plant species in remote hilly tracts. His research articles and taxonomic monographs provide definitive taxonomic treatments of indigenous flora, supporting sustainable pharmacological bioprospecting and forest preservation.