Biography

I grew up in Ogbomoso, Nigeria and attended Ladoke Akintola University of Technology where I completed a BTech degree in Chemistry. As an undergraduate in Prof Olugbenga Bello’s lab, I synthesized activated carbon from agricultural wastes to remove endocrine disrupting chemicals from wastewater. I also developed a machine learning model that predicts the adsorption efficiency of activated carbon. My passion to solve real-world problem made climate change a fascinating topic for my MPhil degree in Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. For this degree, I was awarded Mastercard Foundation scholarship to study the properties of materials for carbon capture at atomic scale in Prof Angelos Michaelides’ group. In my PhD research, I will use state-of-the-art computer simulation approaches to discover and understand the properties of next-generation materials for carbon capture. This work will contribute to climate change mitigation and clean energy transition. I am immensely grateful to have been selected for this prestigious scholarship. With the enriching networks and the opportunities that the scholarship provides, I hope to make a valuable contribution to the Gates Cambridge community and the world at large.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Chemistry 2023
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Chemistry 2020