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Dr. Zul Ilham completed his B.Sc. from University of Malaya before pursuing M.Sc. (Panasonic Scholarship) and Doctoral study (JICA AUN/SEED-Net Ph.D. in Japan-ChE) at the Department of Socio-Environmental Energy Science, Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University. He spent 6 years in Japan, working with the Biomass Energy team in the production of sustainable biofuel from biomass. His research work was awarded with encouragement award for young researcher from the Japan Institute of Energy and two excellence awards (Industrial Oil Products and Processing Division) from the American Oil Chemists’ Society (AOCS). 

His current research interest is bioenergy and biomass science, with special focus on the production of sustainable biofuel and bioproduct from biomass. In addition, he is also actively promoting energy literacy and climate action to youth community (Sustainable Development Goals; SDG 7 and 13) as well as being co-coordinator for the annual AEON Environmental Foundation Asian Students' Environmental Platform (ASEP). Based on his research, he was awarded with several fellowships; namely Volkswagen Foundation Young Researchers Travel Award for Herrenhausen Symposium in Hannover (2015), Invited Research Fellow to Kyoto University (2015), the Young South-East-Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Professional Fellow of Environmental Sustainability to the United States of America, hosted by US Department of State and International City/County Management Association-ICMA (2017) and Invited International Researcher for Waste to Energy Expert Training at Zhejiang University (2019). 

Professionally, he is a Certified Energy Manager (CEM), accredited under the ASEAN Energy Management Scheme (AEMAS) of ASEAN Centre of Energy (ACE). Among the subjects he coordinated are Renewable Energy Processes, Climate Change and Energy Science and Environmental Chemical Analysis. 

Administratively, he is currently the Program Coordinator for Environmental Science and Management.