Dr. Mohammad Yusuf was born in Shib Bari in Sherpur district of Bangladesh in 15 December 1950. He completed his B. Sc. and M. Sc. Degree from the Dhaka University in 1972 and 1975 respectively. He awarded his PhD from the Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh in 2000.
Dr. Yusuf started his career as Research Botanist in Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Botanist in February 1977. He has been promoted to Scientific Officer in December 1978 and Chief Scientific Officer in March 2006 in the same organization. Then he joined as Director-in-charge in IFRD Dhaka and worked till July 2007.
Dr. Yusuf started his career as Research Botanist in Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Botanist in February 1977. He has been promoted to Scientific Officer in December 1978 and Chief Scientific Officer in March 2006 in the same organization. Then he joined as Director-in-charge in IFRD Dhaka and worked till July 2007.
He has been appointed as Director-in-charge in BCSIR Laboratories, Chittagong in July 2007 and got retirement in December 2007 from the same position. He has got specialization in the field of Plant Taxonomy and biodiversity, Medicinal & Aromatic Plants and Ethnobotany. His contribution included Successful completion of a special allocation project of the Ministry of Science and ICT, entitled "Exploration, collection, conservation and propagation of Medicinal and Aromatic plants from Rangamati, Bandarban and Khagrachari district", (1998-99), under which he has documented 450 tribal medicinal plants.
Most of the important and rare plants brought to the BCSIR Laboratory Chittagong campus and planted in the conservation plots. His research contribution included more than 70 papers published in different local and international journals. He is the author of 3 books and a booklet. He has also contribution in 16 patent/process. Presently he is working in Riyadh University as a research fellow.
