Work Experience

Teaching Experience

Department of Public Health, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Associate Tutor

Job description:

  • Guest lecturer on the International Health Policy Module to MPH students: Global Poliovirus Surveillance and Eradication.
  • Supporting learning for module MD2B4-30 Interactions: Environment and Genes.
  • Designed content for synchronous and asynchronous learning, facilitated workshops, and assessed 38 IHS students.
  • Delivering lectures in the HMS MD2B4 Module to Health Management students on the following courses:
    Human Impacts of Extreme Events, Human and Environment Interactions, and Resilience to Environmental Changes.
April 2024 to Date

School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Visiting Professor

Job description:

  • Attending and participating in all Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Accolades Programs.
  • Supported learning for the following modules: Renewable Energy; Sustainable Cities and Infrastructures for Emergency; and Humanitarian Engineering: Ethics, Theory, and Practices.
  • Designed content for synchronous and asynchronous learning, facilitated online seminars and assessed 25 MSc students towards capacity building in Humanitarian Engineering.
  • Supporting research collaboration and projects at the School of Engineering and the Institute of Global Pandemic Planning.
  • Collaboration with the School of Engineering to invite researchers within and outside the University to participate in the Symposium on “Prospects and Challenges of Water and Wastewater Engineering for Community Health Interventions” 1st Edition held March 29th, 2023 supported by IAS.
  • Contributing to delivering lectures to fourth-year Civil Engineering and Humanitarian Engineering students taking the Global Water and Sanitation Technologies module.
  • Contributing to the Global and Sustainable Development workshop delivered for IATL’s Global Connections Module.
  • Guiding the fourth-year Civil Engineering and Humanitarian Engineering students at site visits to Wastewater treatment facilities at Severn Trent Derby, United Kingdom.
  • Guiding M.Sc. and Ph.D. students on their work on water/wastewater treatment materials at the School of Engineering.
  • Optimization and Characterization of the CAMATINFECTANT 1, 2 and 3 products in collaboration with faculty members.
  • Creating a draft for an interdisciplinary water quality, pollution, and treatment module that can be offered at the postgraduate level or by the Centre for Lifelong Learning.
  • Supporting Ph.D. supervisor for a student at the Institute of Global Pandemic Planning, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, United Kingdom.
March 2022 to Date

Department of Microbiology, University of Ilorin, Nigeria

Professor

Job description:

  • Teaching different modules in the microbiology programme for over 700 students per semester cutting across 6 departments. Courses taught at the undergraduate level include Optical Microbiology, General Microbiology, Medical and Veterinary Microbiology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Water and Sewage Microbiology, Immunology, Virology, Bacteriology, Research Project, Seminar and Research Methodology, among others. At the postgraduate level, courses taught include; Postgraduate Dissertation, Postgraduate Seminar, Environmental Management, Soil and Waste Microbiology, Fungal Diseases of Man and Other Animals, Advanced Immunology, and Bacterial and Viral Diseases of Man and Other Animals.
  • Designing teaching materials, marking scripts, and giving timely feedback to over 300 students per module.
  • Contributed to the design, development, and improvement of curriculum for undergraduate, and postgraduate programs (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) in Microbiology at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.
  • Supervision of 240 undergraduate and 65 graduate students, as well as assessing 300 final year projects.
  • Conducting and invigilating examinations within the Faculty of Life Sciences and others.
  • Examination officer and coordinator with roles involving collating examination questions and moderation of results.
October 2017 - Date

University of Ilorin, Nigeria

Associate Professor
October 2014 - 2017

University of Ilorin, Nigeria

Senior Lecturer
October 2011-September 2014

University of Ilorin, Nigeria

Lecturer I
October 2009-September 2011

University of Ilorin, Nigeria

Lecturer II
October 2005-September 2009

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Residential Supervisor, The Smallpeice Trust, United Kingdom
2024
Consultant Virologist, World Health Organization
2015 - Date
Technical Consultant, Federal House of Representative Committee on Foods, and Drugs
2024
National Coordinator, Poliovirus Laboratory Containment for Nigeria
2015 -Date
Member, Technical Working Group, National Environmental Surveillance, Nigeria
2023 - Date
Member, National Taskforce on Poliovirus Containment, Nigeria
2015 -Date
Member, Ministerial Expert Advisory Committee COVID-19
2020 - Date
Member of Senate, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
2014 - Date
Director, Institute of Molecular Science and Biotechnology, University of Ilorin
2017 -2020
Head, Department of Microbiology, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
2014 - 2017
Licensed Member, Environmental Health Council of Nigeria.
2020 - Date
External Examiner and External Professorial Assessor to over 20 Universities in Nigeria and Africa.
2017 - Date
Certified, Nigerian National Code for Health Research Ethics.
2018 - Date
Licensed Member, Institute of Public Analyst of Nigeria (IPAN).
2016 - Date
Charter Member, National Association of Artificial Intelligence Practitioners
2024 - Date

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

International Research Fellow, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
2022 - 2024
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Fort Hare, South Africa
2011
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Germany
2009

RESEARCH LEADERSHIP AND FUNDING RECEIVED (GBP)

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant Award: In Collaboration with Nigeria Center for Disease Control.
Role: Co-Investigator, December 2023- December 2026 -
£3,603,203.76
Wellcome Trust Grant Award: In Collaboration with Imperial College, London.
Role: Co-Investigator, 2024 -2028 (42 months)
£2,072,800.00
Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
Role: Co-Principal Investigator, 2022-2204
£6,000
World Health Organisation, Africa Regional Office, (WHO AFRO) Grant on COVID-19 Seroprevalence Unity Study.
Role: Principal Investigator, 2021-2022
£51,236
Nigerian Institute of Medical Research Extramural Research Grant.
Role: Co-Investigator, 2019-2022
£16,071
Keystone Symposium Travel Grant, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Role:Principal Investigator, 2016
£2,411
Nigeria Tertiary Education Trust Fund (Institution Based Research TetFund).
Role:Principal Investigator, 2015-2016
£8,035
Third World Academy of Science (TWAS) Research Grant.
Role:Co-Investigator, 2015-2016
£50,619
CITA Petroleum Limited Research Grant.
Role:Co-Investigator, 2014-2015
£80,332
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant, Global Health Award.
Role:Principal Investigator, 2012
£3,370
Govan Mbeki Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Grant.
Role:Principal Investigator, 2011
£6,684
Travel Grant to participate in AAU West African Network workshop on Research Methodology.
Role:Principal Investigator, 2010
£1,607
University of Ilorin, Central Senate Research Grant.
Role:Co-Investigator, 2010/2011
£21,689
University of Ilorin, Faculty Senate Research Grant.
Role:Co-Investigator, 2010/2011
£1,607
International Union of Microbiological Society (IUMS) Fellowship Grant.
Role:Principal Investigator, 2009
£3,213

EDITORIAL AND REVIEWER EXPERIENCE

  • Expert Reviewer, Science for Africa Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Reviewer, National Universities Commission Core Curriculum Academic Standard for Nigeria.
  • College Expert Reviewer, Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF), Banjul, The Gambia.
  • Reviewer, The Lancet Global Health
  • Academic Editor - PLOS ONE
  • Managing Editor - Nigerian Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences.
  • Editor in Chief - Annals of Science and Technology.
  • Reviewer - BMC Infectious Diseases, Pharmaceutical Biology, Journal of Medical Case Reports, Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, PLOS ONE.

RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

Ongoing

  1. Arbovirus seroprevalence project supported by Wellcome Trust Grant, in collaboration with Imperial College London, United Kingdom. £2,072,800.00
  2. Environmental Surveillance Infectious Disease Project for Nigeria supported by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grant, in collaboration with Nigeria Center for Disease Control. £3,603,203.76
  3. Seroprevalence and genotypic characterization of Respiratory Viruses in children, in collaboration with New York University, USA.

Completed

  1. Microbial source tracking of chemically polluted Asa River, Nigeria in collaboration with International Environmental Research Center, Republic of South Korea.
  2. Phenotypic sampling of Plasmodium strains, in collaboration with Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Germany.

Current Research

  1. Seroprevalence and molecular characterization of RTIs and Viral hemorrhagic viruses in North Central Nigeria
  2. Seroprevalence and genotypic characterization of Human Papillomavirus in North Central Nigeria Seroprevalences and genotypic characterization of Zika and Rubella viruses in pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in North Central Nigeria.
  3. Wastewater surveillance and epidemiological genomic diversity of bacteria and viruses from Rivers in Ilorin, Nigeria.
  4. Screenings, characterization, and efficacy of Bioflocculants in water treatment and wastewater reuse.