I am Farah Noshin Chowdhury, from Dhaka, Bangladesh. I have completed my Bachelor’s and Master’s on Environmental Sciences from Jahangirnagar University; and have worked on research in the domains of ecotoxicology and public health prior to joining the University of Iowa. I wish to study the uncharted impacts on health caused by the disparities in nature and am highly interested in holistically studying the toxicity of environmental chemicals in humans in a bottom-up approach; working from cellular toxic impacts to evaluating ultimate physiological markers of toxic stress induced diseases.

The human body is inherently apt at withstanding a certain degree of several toxic and unwanted chemicals. However, artificial chemicals foreign to biological processes and the sheer load of it being pressed down upon nature at this point is unprecedented in earth’s history. I believe, in today’s world industries need to prevail, but not at the expense of life and health. Therefore, I have concentrated my research till now on the toxins in nature and public health, and now my future ambition is to conduct more critical research on human toxicology. On top of that, Iowa City being named as the third city of literature globally indicated to me a collective air of creativity in the city and in this university campus. Being an adept reader of literature, history and mythology myself I could not but be more interested to be a part of this community.