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research fellow at the Centre for Intelligent Nano-Bio Materials in Seoul, Korea (2007-2008). Since 2008 he has been working in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Malawi. His teaching covers the general area of inorganic chemistry, and his research is centred on the design and synthesis of inorganic for environmental for environmental remediation. He is currently the Coordinator of the DAAD exceed-Swindon project for the Sub Saharan Africa region



Ajeagah Gideon Aghaindum is a full Professor of Hydrobiology, Environmental engineering and Public Health in the University of Yaounde 1(Cameroon). He is formerly adjunct Dean and now a Head of Division of Academic affairs, Admission and Research in the Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde 1,Cameroon.An international consultant in sustainable and ecosystemic exploitation of aquatic resources, environment and a public health expert.



Stephen Ojwach obtained his PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Johannesburg in 2008. He is currently a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and immediate former Assistant Dean & Head of School (Administration) in the School of Chemistry and Physics. Prof Ojwach has also been a visiting research professor at various universities; University of Lethbridge (Canada), RTWH Aachen University (Germany), Moi University (Kenya) and Technical University of Kaiserslautern (Germany). His main research focus is onApplied Organometallic Chemistry and catalysis, but also has collaborative projects on Bioinorganic Chemistry and Environmental chemistry. Prof Ojwach is a recipient of several research grants such as DST-NRF Center of Excellence in catalysis (c*change) and NRF-competitive program for researchers (SA), International Foundation for Science (IFS), Third World Academy of Science (TWAS). He has also received several accolades including Top Young Researcher (University of KwaZulu-Natal), C2 (NRF-SA) rated researcher among others. Prof Ojwach has published about 100 scientific articles in international journals and graduated 10 PhD doctorate and 15 MSc students.



Oluwatoyin Adepeju Odeku is a Professor of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology and the former Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She holds a PharmD degree from the University of Benin and a PhD degree in Pharmaceutics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She holds a certificate in Modern Higher Education Management and Leadership from the University of Applied Sciences, Osnabruck, Germany.



Professor Odeku had her postdoctoral training at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Pharmacy, Jerusalem, Israel. She has been a Visiting Scientist at several Universities among them the University of Manchester School of Pharmacy, Manchester, UK; Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai China; Martin-Luther University, Halle, Germany and the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. She has also been a visiting Professor at the University of Bonn, Germany, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana and the University of Potsdam, Germany, among others.



She has been a recipient of many research fellowships and awards including UNESCO/Israel Co-Sponsored Post-Doctoral Fellowship, MacArthur Foundation Grant, CAS-TWAS Visiting Scholar Fellowship, DAAD visiting Fellowship, and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowships among others. Her research interests include drug delivery, excipients development, formulation of herbal medicinal products and industrial solid waste and water management. She has over 120 articles in Books, Chapters in books and journal articles to her credit. She is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science (FAS), Nigerian Academy of Pharmacists (FNAPharm), West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists (FPCPharm) and West African Research Association (WARA).



Gnon Baba is Full Professor in organic chemistry and environmental sciences. He obtained his doctorate in University of Rennes 1 in organic chemistry in 1994 and he obtained his state doctorate in 2002 in University of Cocody at Abidjan (Ivory Coast). He was recruited as a teacher-researcher in the University of Lomé in 1996. From November 2007 to September 2018, he was Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology of University of Kara. Since 2019 he is Director of the University Agency of Francophonie (AUF) in Togo. He is author of over 80 scientific publications and collective works. He is the coordinator of Sub-Saharan Africa EXCEED-SWINDON network in 2019 and 2020 and is President of the West African Water, Environment, Energy and Mines Network (WAWEEMN) of the West African Chemical Society (WACS). Gnon Baba is head of Laboratory.