He served as the professor of physics at the University of Dhaka between 1955 and 2000, where he had also served as the chairman of the department. He was also a senior associate at Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste during 1982 and 1992. He was also a visiting professor at the Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan in 1994. He retired in 2000. In a career spanning five decades he published over 200 research papers and was a fellow of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences since 1977. His research interests included condensed matter theory specializing in the study of elastic and inelastic scattering. His book in Bangla on nuclear physics, published by University of Dhaka, was part of the curriculum for MSc and MPhil students at the university.