Dr. Amar Mohanty is a Professor & Distinguished Research Excellence Chair in Sustainable Materials and the Director of the Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He holds a co-appointment as a Professor of Bioproducts in the Department of Plant Agriculture and as a Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering in the College of Engineering. Mohanty is an international leader in the field of sustainable materials, bioplastics, biocomposites, and advanced biorefinery. His research focuses on engineering value-added uses of biomass wastes, waste plastics, and industrial co-products from agro-food and biofuel industries.

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