Professor, Faculty of Fisheries and Food Technology, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia

Mohd Tajuddin Abdullah received his PhD in zoology from the University of Queensland, Australia in 2003; MSc and BSc from the West Virginia University USA in 1985 and a diploma from the Institut Teknologi MARA, Malaysia in 1977. He is a professor at the Faculty of Fisheries and Food Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), and was a former Director of the Institute of Tropical Biodiversity and Sustainable Development, UMT.