Jannatul Ferdous was born and raised in Sitakunda, Bangladesh. She earned both her B.Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. in Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology from the University of Chittagong, with a thesis on antimicrobial resistance and the gut-microbiome of coastal fish. After graduation she served as Lab Manager and Research Assistant at the Disease Biology & Molecular Epidemiology (DBME) laboratory, University of Chittagong, leading metagenomic and AMR surveillance projects. Since July,2025 she has been a Lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Science & Technology Chittagong (USTC). Her current work focuses on infectious-disease genomics, antimicrobial resistance, metagenomics and molecular techniques.