Dr. M. Ashfaqur Rahman had been working as a visiting Scientist of the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy during 2018-2020. Dr. Rahman’s research interests are Regional and Global Climate Modelling, Land Surface parameterizations, and Dynamic Vegetation. He has completed M.Sc. in Statistics from Jagannath University, Bangladesh and M.Sc. in Meteorology from King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. His Ph.D in Meteorology was awarded from King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He joined in SAARC Meteorological Research Center (SMRC), Dhaka as Research Officer and served from 2007 to 2009. He has published 5 papers in the peer-reviewed literature.