Nurudeen Abiola Oladoja is Professor of chemistry in the Department of Chemical Sciences, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria. He was Postdoctoral Fellow (CAS/TWAS) at the Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Visiting Research Scientist (USM/TWAS Visiting Research Fellowship), School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia; Visiting Professor (Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers) and Chair of Urban Water Systems Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Germany; and Visiting Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences Presidential Fellowship (CAS/PIFI), RCEES, Beijing, China. His research focus includes: environmental interfacial chemistry; aquatic ecological engineering; and resource recovery from wastewater. He has supervised and co-supervised several M.Sc. and Ph.D. students. He has published widely in reputable international peer review journals. He is Head, Hydrochemistry Research Group, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria, and Director of Applied Research (ACEWATER) Redeemer’s University, Nigeria.
Emmanuel Iyayi Unuabonah is Professor in the Department of Chemical Sciences in the College of Natural Sciences at Redeemers University in Nigeria. His research is focused on the preparation and characterization of functional composite materials from local materials and agrowastes with the aim of treating water. He is also developing novel micro-mesoporous materials for adsorptive and catalytic purposes. He has published several articles in international peer-reviewed journals and has won several international awards and research fellowships including the TWAS-ROSSA Young Scientist Award, SCOPE–Zhongyu Young Scientist Environmental Award (Environmental Technological Innovations category), African Union-TWAS Young Scientist Award in Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation, the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and the Redeemer’s University Researcher of the Year. His research group won the Dhirubhai Ambani Chemical Engineering Innovation for Resource-Poor People Award category at the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Global Awards and the TWAS Research group grant.