Md Hasan Ali grew up in a Bangladeshi village famous for its mangoes. He earned his master’s degree in Crop protection and toxicology from Rajshahi University under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Nurul Islam. He moved to Japan and received his M.S and PhD degree working in the group of Prof. Toshinobu Tokumoto, Dept. of Molecular and Developmental Biology, Shizuoka University. His doctoral research was on the purification and characterization of zebrafish proteasome. In 2022, he joined our group as a postdoc. Hasan loves playing tennis.