School of Earth System Science
Professor
022-83614901
mostofa@tju.edu.cn
Rm 608, Building No.16
Dr. Khan M. G. Mostofa (Associate Editor of “Frontiers in Marine Science”)is a Professor at the School of Earth System Science, Tianjin University, China since 2015. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry (Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh in 1991), double MS degree (Chemistry, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh in 1992 & Earth and Planetary Sciences-Biogeochemistry, Nagoya University, Japan in 2001) and Ph. D degree from Hiroshima University (Japan) in 2005 in the field of Environmental Dynamics and Management. He has been worked as a postdoctoral fellow (2006-2008) at the Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and then appointed as an Associate Professor (2008-2014) at the same Institute. His current research focuses on photochemistry and biogeochemistry of organic matter as well as their biogeochemical linkages with various biogenic & non-biogenic elements in freshwater, marine and soil environments. One of his most outstanding research works is to publish the book “Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter: Principles and Practices in Water Environments” by Springer on 2013 along with collaboration with many distinguished International Scientists around the world.
- Doctoral degree| Hiroshima University| Environmental Dynamics and Management| 2005
- Master's Degree| Jahangirnagar University| Inorganic Chemistry| 1991
- Master's Degree| Nagoya University| Earth and Planetary Science Division of Earth and Planetary Science| 2001
- Bachelor’s Degree| Jahangirnagar University| Chemistry| 1990
- Global warming impacts and soil desertification: the impacts of global warming (sunlight- and temperature-induced) and the remedial measures of soil desertification
- Metal-NOM Complexation:Biogeochemical transportation of trace metals and their complexation behavior with NOM
- Reactive Oxygen Species (H2O2 and HO●) in Water & Air: Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS: H2O2 and ●OH) and their linkages with production-degradation of NOM
- Degradation of Humic-like substances or Organic Pollutants in Water: Production-degradation transformation processes of Natural Organic Matter (NOM)
- Humification & Genesis of Humic Substances: Genesis of Humic Substances and their optical/molecular-level characterization
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2015.1-Now
Institute of surface-earth system science | Tianjin University | Professor  -
2008.10-2014.12
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry | The Chinese Academy of Sciences | Associate Professor  -
2006.10-2008.9
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry | The Chinese Academy of Sciences | Postdoctoral Fellow  -
2005.10-2006.9
Graduate School of Biosphere Science | Hiroshima University | Postdoctoral Fellow, 
- Papers
- [1] Ayenia TT, Iwamoto Y, Takeda K, Sakugawa H, Mostofa KMG (2022) Optical properties of dissolved organic matter in Japanese Rivers and their contributions to the photoformation of reactive oxygen species. Science of the Total Environment 826:153671
- [2] Ge J, Qi Y, Hu Q, Yi Y, Ma J, Li C, Mostofa KMG, Volmer DA, Li S (2022) Fluorescence and Molecular Signatures of Dissolved Organic Matter to monitor and to Assess its multiple sources from a Polluted River in the Farming-Pastoral Ecotone of Northern China. Science of the Total Environment (accepted)
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- [3] Yang X, Yuan J, Yue F-J, Li S, Wang B, Mohinuzzaman M, Liu Y, Senesi N, Lao X, Li L, Liu CQ, Ellam RM, Vione D, Mostofa KMG* (2021) New insights into mechanisms of sunlight- and dark-mediated high-temperature can accelerate diurnal production-degradation transformation of lake fluorescent DOM. Science of the Total Environment 760: 143377
- [4] Zhang Y, Zhang R, Li S-L, Mostofa KMG, Fu X, Ji H, Liu W, Sun P (2021) Photo−ammonification of Low Molecular Weight Dissolved Organic Nitrogen by Direct and Indirect Photolysis. Science of the Total Environment. 764, 142930
- [5] Han Z, Xiao M, Yue F, Yi Y., Mostofa KMG (2021) Seasonal Variations of Dissolved Organic Matter by Fluorescent Analysis in a Typical River Catchment in Northern China. Water 13, 494.
- [6] Yi Y, Zhong J, Bao H, Mostofa KMG, Xu S, Xiao H-Y, Li S (2021) The impacts of reservoirs on the sources and transport of riverine organic carbon in karst area: a multi-tracer study. Water Research 194, 116933
- [7] Kabir MM, Akter S, Ahmed FT, Mohinuzzaman M, Alam MD, Mostofa KMG et al. (2021) Salinity-induced fluorescence dissolved organic matter influence co-contamination, quality and risk to human health of tube well water in southeast coastal Bangladesh. Chemosphere 130053 (accepted)
- [8] Mohinuzzaman M, Yuan J, Yang X, Senesi N, Mostofa KMG*, Liu CQ (2020) Insights into Solubility of Soil Humic Substances and Their Fluorescence Characterisation in Three Characteristic Soils. Science of the Total Environment. 720: 137395
- [9] Minella M, Mostofa MGM, Liu CQ, Vione D (2020) An Estimate of the Possible Impacts of Superoxide Chemistry on Seawater pH: A Mapping Exercise. Advances in Chemical Research. 2(1):13; doi:10.21926/obm.acr.2001004
- [10] Yi Y, Xiao M, Mostofa KMG, Xu S, Wang ZL (2019) Spatial variations of trace metals and their complexation behavior with DOM in the water of Dianchi Lake, China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, 4919; doi:10.3390/ijerph16244919
- [11] Liu Y, Li Y, Hu Y, Mostofa KMG, Li S, Liu Z (2019) Adsorption characteristics and transport behavior of Cr(VI) in shallow aquifers surrounding a chromium ore processing residue (COPR) dumpsite. Journal of Chemistry 2019, 4932837, https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/4932837
- [12] Li Y, Zhang J, Li Y, Mostofa KMG, Guojing, Yu S, Dong J, Jin M, and Peng Y (2019) Petrogenesis of mafic granulite in South Altyn Tagh, NW China: Constraints from petrology, zircon U-Pb chronology, and geochemistry. Geological Journal 2019:1-19
- [13] Mostofa KMG, Yuan J, Sakugawa H, Liu CQ (2019) Equal treatment of different EEM data on PARAFAC modelling produces artefact fluorescent components that have misleading biogeochemical consequences. Environmental Science & Technology 53:561−563
- [14] Li Y, Zhang J, Mostofa KMG, Wang F, Yu S, Cai Z, Zhou G, Mao X (2018) Petrogenesis of carbonatites in the Luliangshan region, North Qaidam, northern Tibet, China: Evidence for recycling of sedimentary carbonate and mantle metasomatism within a subduction zone. Lithos 322: 148-165
- [15] Fu Z, Wang Y, An Z, Hu W, Mostofa KMG, Li X, Liu B (2018) Spatial and temporal variability of 0-5 m soil-water storage at the watershed scale. Hydrological Processes 32:2557–2569
- [16] Yue F-J, Li S-L, Liu C-Q, Mostofa KMG, Yoshida N, Toyoda S, Liu X-L, Wang S-L (2018) The Spatial Variation of Nitrogen Cycling in a Subtropical Stratified Dam Lake in SW China, Elucidated by Nitrous Oxide Isotopomer and Nitrate Isotopes. Inland Waters 8:186-195
- [17] Mostofa KMG, Longlong L, Liu CQ (2018) Detection of Tyrosine, Trace Metals and Nutrients in Cow Dung: The Environmental Significance in Soil and Water Environments. Acta Geochemica 37:632-638
- [18] Mohinuzzaman M, Saadat AHM, Mostofa KMG, Islam SMN, Hossain SM, Tareq SM (2018) Health Risk Assessment from Chromium Accumulating Fish and Vegetable of the Gulshan Lake, Bangladesh: A Case Study. Pollution 4(3):459-469
- [19] Wang X, Li S, Liu CQ, Mostofa KMG, Zhao Z, Luo R (2018) Hydrogeochemistry and δ13CDIC and δ18OH2O composition of three Chinese Tibetan Plateau lakes. Isotopes in Environment and Health Studies 54:89-105
- [20] Mostofa KMG, Li W, Wu FC, Liu CQ, Liao H, Zeng L, Xiao M. (2018) Environmental characteristics and microbial changes of sediment pore water dissolved organic matter in four Chinese. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 25(3):2783-2804
- [21] Shammi M., Pan X*, Mostofa KMG*, Zhang D, Liu CQ (2017) Photo−flocculation of algal biofilm extracellular polymeric substances and its transformation into transparent exopolymer particles: Chemical and spectroscopic evidences. Scientific Report 7:9074
- [22] Shammi M., Pan X*, Mostofa KMG*, Zhang D, Liu CQ (2017) Seasonal variation and characteristic differences in the fluorescent components of extracellular polymeric substances from mixed biofilms in saline lake. Science Bulletin 62:764-766
- [23] hammi M, Pan X*, Mostofa KMG*, Zhang D, Liu CQ (2017) Investigating extracellular polymeric substances from microbial mat upon exposure to sunlight. Polymer Degradation and Stability 146:192-200
- [24] Akhand A, Chanda A, Manna S, Das S, Hazra S, Roy R, Choudhury SB, Rao KH, Dadhwal VK, Chakraborty K, Mostofa KMG, Kuwae T, Wanninkhof R (2016) A comparison of CO2 dynamics and air-water fluxes in a river-dominated estuary and a mangrove-dominated marine estuary. Geophysical Research Letters. 43(22): 11726-11735, doi:10.1002/2016GL070716.
- [25] Mostofa KMG, Sakugawa H (2016) Simultaneous Photoinduced Generations of Fe2+ and H2O2 in Rivers: An Indicator for Photo-Fenton Reactions. Journal of Environmental Science 47(9):34-38
- [26] Mostofa KMG, Liu CQ, Zhai W, Minella M, Vione D, Gao K, Minakata D, Arakaki T, Yoshioka T, Hayakawa K, Konohira E, Tanoue E, Akhand A, Chanda A, Wang B, Sakugawa H (2016) Reviews and Syntheses: Ocean Acidification and Its Potential Impacts on Marine Ecosystems. Biogeosciences 13: 1767-1786
- [27] Mostofa KMG, Liu CQ, Minella M, Vione D (2015) The Mechanism behind the DOM Effects on Methylmercury Photodegradation. Science Bulletin. 60: 1220-1221
- [28] Rasool A, Xiao T, Baig ZT, Masood S, Mostofa KMG, Iqbal M. (2015) Co-occurrence of arsenic and fluoride in the groundwater of Punjab, Pakistan: source discrimination and health risk assessment. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 22: 19729-19746
- [29] Mostofa KMG, Liu CQ, Minella M, Vione D (2015) Biological Formation of Organic Substances from Particulate Organic Matter. Canadian Chemical Transaction. 3: 195-198
- [30] Mostofa KMG, Liu C-Q, Vione D (2015) Quantifying the Possible Short- and Long-term Impacts of Superoxide Redox Chemistry on Seawater pH. Canadian Chemical Transactions 3: 285-290.
- [31] Mostofa KMG, Liu CQ, Minella M, Vione D (2013) Balancing of Ocean Acidification by superoxide redox chemistry? Environmental Science & Technology 47:11380−11381.
- [32] Mostofa KMG, Liu CQ, Vione D, Gao K, Ogawa H (2013) Sources, Factors, Mechanisms and Possible Solutions to Pollutants in Marine Ecosystems. Environmental Pollution. 182:461-478.
- [33] Mostofa KMG, Wu FC, Liu CQ, Yoshioka T, Sakugawa H, Tanoue E (2011) Photochemical, microbial and metal complexation behavior of fluorescent dissolved organic matter in the aquatic environments (Invited review). Geochemical Journal 45:235-254
- [34] Mostofa KMG, Wu FC, Liu CQ, Fang WL, Yuan J, Ying WL, Wen L, Yi M (2010) Characterization of Nanming River (Southwestern China) impacted by sewerage pollution using excitation-emission matrix and PARAFAC. Limnology 11:217-231
- [35] Fu PQ, Mostofa KMG, Wu FC, Liu CQ, Li W, Liao H, Wang LF, Wang J, Mei Y (2010) Excitation-emission matrix characterization of dissolved organic matter sources in two eutrophic lakes (Southwestern China Plateau). Geochemical Journal 44:99-112
- [36] Zhang D, Pan XL, Mostofa KMG, Chen X, Mu G, Wu FC, Liu J, Song WJ, Yang JY, Liu Y, Fu QL (2010) Complexation between Hg(II) and biofilm extracellular polymeric substances: an application of fluorescence spectroscopy. Journal of Hazardous Materials 175:359-365
- [37] Mostofa KMG, Sakugawa H (2009) Spatial and temporal variations and factors controlling the concentrations of hydrogen peroxide and organic peroxides in rivers. Environmental Chemistry 6:524-534
- [38] Mostofa KMG, Yoshioka T, Konohira E, Tanoue E (2007b) Photodegradation of fluorescent dissolved organic matter in river waters. Geochemical Journal 41:323-331
- [39] Mostofa KMG, Yoshioka T, Konohira E, Tanoue E (2007a) Dynamics and characteristics of fluorescent dissolved organic matter in the groundwater, river and lake water. Water Air Soil Pollution 184:157-176
- [40] Yoshioka T, Mostofa KMG, Konohira E, Tanoue E, Hayakawa K, Takahashi M, Ueda S, Katsuyama M, Khodzher T, Bashenkhaeva N, Korovyakova I, Sorokovikova L, Gorbunova L (2007) Distribution and characteristics of molecular size fractions of freshwater dissolved organic matter in watershed environments: Its implication to degradation. Limnology 8:29-44
- [41] Mostofa KMG, Honda Y, Sakugawa H (2005a) Dynamics and optical nature of dissolved organic matter in river waters in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Geochemical Journal 39:257-271
- [42] Mostofa KMG, Yoshioka T, Konohira E, Tanoue E, Hayakawa K, Takahashi M (2005b) Three-dimensional fluorescence as a tool for investigating the dynamics of dissolved organic matter in the Lake Biwa watershed. Limnology 6: 101-115
- [43] Anawar HM, Akai J, Mostofa KMG, Safiullah S, Tareq SM (2002) Arsenic poisoning in groundwater: Health risk and geochemical sources in Bangladesh. Environment International 27:597-604
- [44] Ullah SS, Khan MGM, Rahman ABMS (1998) Photocatalytic decomposition of phenols by titanium dioxide under sunlight and UV. Journal of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences 22:29-37
- [45] Mostofa KMG, Liu CQ, Sakugawa H, Fu P, Minella M, Vione D, Minakata D, Wu FC, Zhai L, Mortuza MG, Al-Misned FA, Chen J, Yuan J, Li S-L (2015) Phototransformation induced by HO• radicals. In: Calza P, Vione D (Eds), Surface Water Photochemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, Chapter 7, pp 117-137.
- [46] Mostofa KMG, Liu CQ, Mottaleb MA, Wan GJ, Ogawa H, Vione D, Yoshioka T, Wu FC (2013) Dissolved organic matter in natural waters. In: Mostofa KMG, Yoshioka T, Mottaleb MA, Vione D (Eds), Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter: Principles and Practices in Water Environments, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, Chapter 1, pp 1-137
- [47] Mostofa KMG, Liu CQ, Sakugawa H, Vione D, Minakata D, Wu FC (2013) Hydrogen peroxide and organic peroxides in natural waters. In: Mostofa KMG, Yoshioka T, Mottaleb MA, Vione D (Eds), Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter: Principles and Practices in Water Environments, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, Chapter 2, pp 139-207
- [48] Mostofa KMG, Liu CQ, Sakugawa H, Vione D, Minakata D, Saquib M, Mottaleb MA (2013) Photoinduced generation of hydroxyl radical in natural waters. In: Mostofa KMG, Yoshioka T, Mottaleb MA, Vione D (Eds), Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter: Principles and Practices in Water Environments, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, Chapter 3, pp 209-272
- [49] Mostofa KMG, Liu CQ, Minakata D, Wu FC, Vione D, Mottaleb MA Yoshioka T, Sakugawa H (2013) Photoinduced and microbial degradation of dissolved organic matter in natural waters. In: Mostofa KMG, Yoshioka T, Mottaleb MA, Vione D (Eds), Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter: Principles and Practices in Water Environments, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, Chapter 4, pp 273-364
- [50] Mostofa KMG, Liu CQ, Vione D, Mottaleb MA, Ogawa H, Tareq SM, Yoshioka T (2013) Chromophoric and colored dissolved organic matter in natural waters. In: Mostofa KMG, Yoshioka T, Mottaleb MA, Vione D (Eds), Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter: Principles and Practices in Water Environments, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, Chapter 5, pp 365-428
- [51] Mostofa KMG, Liu CQ, Yoshioka T, Vione D, Zhang YL, Sakugawa H (2013) Fluorescent dissolved organic matter in natural waters. In: Mostofa KMG, Yoshioka T, Mottaleb MA, Vione D (Eds), Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter: Principles and Practices in Water Environments, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, Chapter 6, pp 429-559
- [52] Mostofa KMG, Liu CQ, Pan XL, Yoshioka T, Vione D, Minakata D, Gao K, Sakugawa H, Komissarov GG (2013) Photosynthesis in Nature: A New Look. In: Mostofa KMG, Yoshioka T, Mottaleb MA, Vione D (Eds), Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter: Principles and Practices in Water Environments, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, Chapter 7, pp 561-686
- [53] Mostofa KMG, Liu CQ, Pan XL, Vione D, Hayakawa K, Yoshioka T, Komissarov GG (2013) Chlorophylls and their degradation in Nature. In: Mostofa KMG, Yoshioka T, Mottaleb MA, Vione D (Eds), Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter: Principles and Practices in Water Environments, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, Chapter 8, pp 687-768
- [54] Mostofa KMG, Liu CQ, Feng XB, Yoshioka T, Vione D, Pan XL, Wu FC (2013) Biogeochemical complexation of dissolved organic matter with trace elements in natural waters. In: Mostofa KMG, Yoshioka T, Mottaleb MA, Vione D (Eds), Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter: Principles and Practices in Water Environments, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, Chapter 9, pp 769-849
- [55] Mostofa KMG, Liu CQ, Gao K, Li S, Vione D, Mottaleb MA (2013) Impacts of global warming on biogeochemical cycles in natural waters. In: Mostofa KMG, Yoshioka T, Mottaleb MA, Vione D (Eds), Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter: Principles and Practices in Water Environments, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, Chapter 10, pp 851-914
- [56] Vione D, Minero C, Maurino V, Olariu R-L, Arsene C, Mostofa KMG (2011) Photochemical transformation processes in surface waters. In: Maes KJ, Willems JM (Eds), Photochemistry: UV/VIS Spectroscopy, Photochemical Reactions and Photosynthesis, Nova Science Publishers, Chapter 9
- [57] Mostofa KMG, Wu FC, Yoshioka T, Sakugawa H, Tanoue E (2009) Dissolved organic matter in the aquatic environments. In: Wu FC, Xing B (Ed), Natural Organic Matter and its Significance in the Environment. Science Press, Beijing, pp 3-66
- Honors & Awards
- [1] Awarded MONOBUSHO Scholarship of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Japan for two years (1999-2001) during the MS Study, Nagoya University, Japan.
- [2] Awarded MONOBUSHO Scholarship of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Japan for two years (2003-2005) during PhD Study, Hiroshima University Japan.