M. Sayeedur Rahman Khan

Prof. Khan was born in the village of Boronaogaon in Pabna.[3] on October 6, 1946. His father Chayen Uddin was a school teacher and mother Taiyabuna Nessa was a housewife. He was the youngest of four brothers, and had one sister. He lost his father at an early age in the sixth grade.

Quamrun Rahman Khan, Prof. Khan's wife is a retired school teacher. They have two daughters and a son.

Prof. Khan completed his matriculation from Thakurgaon High School in 1963, obtaining sixth position in the combined merit list. Later, he finished his higher secondary school certificate examination from Pabna Edward College in 1965. He completed his B.Sc. Hons. in physics in 1968 and M.Sc. in applied physics and electronics in 1969 from University of Rajshahi, securing first class first position in both the exams. He moved to the UK in 1972 to pursue his doctoral studies with Commonwealth Scholarship and completed his PhD in physics in 1977 from Royal Holloway, University of London. His primary field of research are in the area of thin solid films and solar energy.

Queen Elizabeth II Meets Dr M. Sayeedur Rahman Khan

Dr. Khan joined the Department of Applied Physics in University of Rajshahi as a lecturer in 1970 and retired as a professor in 2012. He taught at University of Zambia from 1980 to 1982 and at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria from 1982 to 1984. He conducted his post-doctoral research at Uppsala University (1990) and Tsinghua University (1992). He also worked as a researcher at International Centre for Theoretical Physics and Brunel University London (with EEC fellowship).

He served as the 17th vice chancellor of University of Rajshahi during 1999-2001. Prior to this he also held position as the pro-vice chancellor, member of the senate, member of the syndicate and the chairman of the 'Department of Applied Physics and Electronics' at the same university.

As a member of the Bangladeshi delegation, he played an important role in the declaration of February 21 as the International Mother Language Day by UNESCO in 1999, in Paris.[4]

He served as the High Commissioner of Bangladesh to UK and Ambassador to Ireland[Note 1] from 2009 to 2012.

Currently, he is working as an adviser at Varendra University.

There are about 40 scientific papers published by him, mostly in foreign journals. He presented his research articles at more than 20 international conferences. He is also the author of two textbooks.