Faculty Members
Md Sazan Rahman, PhD
Team Lead, and Assistant Professor,
Department of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems (ANFS)
📧 mdsazan.rahman@unh.edu
🏫 Room 226, Kendall Hall, University of New Hampshire, 129 Main Street, Durham, NH 03824
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Graduate Students
Md Hafizur Rahman
Md Hafizur Rahman is a PhD student in the Agricultural Science Program in the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems Department of UNH. He is originally from Tangail, Bangladesh. He received his Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering and Master of Science in Agricultural Construction and Environmental Engineering (ACEE) from Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU) in Bangladesh. He joined as a faculty right after his graduation at SAU and taught many courses related to Environmental Sciences. At UNH, his research focuses on aerobic digestion-based heating system development and assessment to energize the controlled environment of agricultural facilities. He will use on-farm biomass to develop the aerobic digestion-based heating system.
| Md Robiul Islam Akondo |
Md. Robiul Islam Akondo is a PhD student in the Agricultural Science Program in the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems Department of UNH. He is originally from Sirajganj, Bangladesh. He received his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (Hons.) and Master of Science in Agronomy from Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Bangladesh. He was awarded the National Science and Technology (NST) Fellowship for MS Research from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Bangladesh. He worked as a “Scientific Officer” at the Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA), Ministry of Agriculture, Government of The People’s Republic of Bangladesh. His research interest is climate smart agriculture in controlled and semi controlled environment. He published several articles in national and international journals. He has more than 6 year’s research experience in Soil Science and Agronomy. At UNH, his research focuses on Investigation and Development of Novel Substrate for Enhanced Plant Growth in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA).
Undergraduate Students
| Meredith Beers |
Meredith Beers is an undergraduate student majoring in environmental science (ecosystems) and minoring in horticulture within the Natural Resources and the Environment Department of UNH. She is originally from the state of Vermont. Meredith has previously worked at the UNH MacFarlane Greenhouses and is now beginning research at UNH regarding utilizing environmental controls in a greenhouse setting to promote optimal crop growth.