Dr. Mohammad Omar Faruque has obtained his B.Sc. (Honors) in 2003 and Master degree in 2004 from the Department of Botany, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Huazhong Agricultural University of China in 2019 in the field of pharmaceutical sciences. From 2008 to 2012 he worked as a Biology teacher in two different institutions. In 2012 he was selected as a lecturer at the faculty of biological sciences of university of Chittagong and now he is working as an Assistant Professor since 2014. He has been conducting research in the field of Ethnobotany and Pharmacognosy and phytochemistry since 2007 and documented over 2000 ethnomedicinal information from 12 indigenous communities of Bangladesh. He is one of the contributors of two renowned research based websites (http://www.ebbd.info/contributor.html and www.mpbd.info) of Bangladesh. Dr. Faruque published 13 scientific publications and one book, and given 13 presentations at national and international conferences. He has collaborated with researchers from China, Ireland and Poland. He is a general member of Society for Medicinal Plants and Natural Product Research (104609), Germany, the American Society of Pharmacognosy and a life member of Bangladesh Botanical Society.
