Ph.D. student Azmal Hossan is now a Graduate Research Assistant for the Collaboratory Research Group on Climate Change and Biodiversity at CSU’s School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SoGES). The interdisciplinary research group aims to explore the synergies and trade-offs between climate change action and biodiversity protection, specifically in the agricultural production system.

Additionally, Azmal has been accepted as a Student Ambassador of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. The prize is known as the ‘Nobel Prize for the Environment’ and this year’s Laureate is Dr. Toby Kiers, an American evolutionary biologist and professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Azmal and his peers help promote Dr. Kiers’ activism and research of underground fungal networks and soil biodiversity, work that has reshaped global understanding of ecosystem and climate health.