Biography

Mousumi Akter Mary is from Bangladesh, where she completed both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Dhaka. She earned her Ph.D. at Texas Tech University, focusing on developing environmentally friendly control methods for a specific Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) species. Her broader research interests include understanding HABs and exploring management and control approaches. Currently, as a postdoctoral scholar at UCF, she is working on a project aimed at creating an optimized molecular toolkit for accurate and efficient detection and quantification of HAB taxa.