Aman Ullah is currently working as a Professor and Director of Lipid Utilization Labs. He leads a research group on lipid/materials chemistry at the University of Alberta, Canada. He received a PhD (with distinction) in Chemical Sciences and Technologies from the University of Genoa, Italy, also working together with Southern Methodist University, US. He has trained >80 personnel including graduates (PhD and MSc), PDFs, RAs, and undergraduate students. His research interests are in the development of biochemicals/biopolymers/bioproducts/biomaterials from renewable resources for different industrial applications. He has >100  publications,18 book chapters, nine patents/patent applications, and received many awards including the Canadian Rising Star award from “Grand Challenges Canada'' and the ALES “Research and Innovation Award”, and was the ASTech Award winner for the “33rd ASTech Innovation Awards''. He is currently serving on the editorial board of Biocatalysis and Agricultural  Biotechnology and Composites Part C. He has also served as a guest editor for many journals, such as Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology: Frontiers in Materials, Polymers and Molecules.