Dr Surinder Singh is Chief Research Scientist based at CSIRO Agriculture and Food and Nourish Ingredients in Canberra, Australia. He has pioneered the successful genetic modification of fatty acid composition in the seeds of canola so that they produce large amounts of the long-chain omega-3 oils that are essential for human health. He has also contributed to the development of highly stable safflower oil for industrial applications and the fatty acid metabolism in the leaves of certain crops to produce large amounts of valuable oils that are useful for food and industrial applications. Both omega-3 canola crop and safflower crops are in commercial production putting Australia at the forefront of bringing metabolically engineered oilseed crops to the market. Dr Singh is also involved in developing fats and oils for food via fermentation platforms at Australian start up Nourish Ingredients. Dr Singh was ranked in the Top 10 translational researchers for 2014 by Nature Biotechnology. He has more than 100 granted patents. He has 125 peer reviewed publications with total citations of 14900 and h-index of 61 (Google Scholar).

He is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.