Prof. Aziz Arshad is currently a Director of the Centre of Marine Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia and a senior professor at the Department of Aquaculture, UPM. He first graduated with Bachelor degree in fisheries in 1983 at UPM and obtained his PhD in 1999 from University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. Presently, he is an honorary treasurer of the Asian Fisheries Society (2016-2019) and held the same treasurer post for the past two council terms. . He has served as the treasurer and secretary of the Malaysian Fisheries Society before his present engagement with AFS. His research interest is in the field of fisheries biology and his past and on-going research focus on the study on biology and ecology of fish and invertebrates with specific interest on the reproductive biology and feeding ecology of selected commercial species. To date, he has published more than 200 refereed journal papers and worked on more than 30 research projects of various aspects of fisheries biology. He has graduated eleven PhD and five Master students throughout his 33 years career with UPM. Internationally, he is the national program leader for Malaysia under the 3-year collaborative program JSPS-ASEAN on living marine coastal resources and pollution.
Department of Aquaculture Faculty of Agriculture Universiti Putra Malaysia 43400 UPM, Serdang Selangor, MALAYSIA