Mohammad Shafiur Rahman, Professor at the Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman and the author or co-author of over 250 technical articles including 90 refereed journal papers, 87 conference papers, 58 book chapters, 34 reports, 12 popular articles, and 7 books. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed and award-wining Food Properties Handbook, published by CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, which was one of the bestsellers from CRC Press in 2002. The second edition is now released with his editorship. The editor of the popular book Handbook of Food Preservation published by CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. The first edition received one of the bestsellers from CRC press in 2003, and the second edition is now in the market. He was invited to serve as one of the Associate Editors for the Handbook of Food Science, Engineering and Technology, and one of the Editors for the Handbook of Food and Bioprocess Modeling Techniques published by CRC Press, FL.

Professor Rahman has initiated the International Journal of Food Properties (Marcel Dekker, Inc.) and serving as the founding Editor for more than 10 years. In edition he is serving in the editorial boards of 8 international journals. He is a member in the Food Engineering Series Editorial Board of Springer Science, New York. He is serving as a Section Editor for the Sultan Qaboos University journal Agricultural Sciences. In 1998 he has been invited and continued to serve as a Food Science Adviser for the International Foundation for Science (IFS) in Sweden.