By our Reporter
Professor Ibiyinka Fuwape of the Federal University of Technology Akure,(FUTA) has won the famous African Union Scientific Excellence Award.
The Professor of Physics was named as one of the winners of the prestigious African Union Kwame Nkrumah Regional Award for Scientific Excellence, AUKNASE 2020 Edition.
The Award instituted by the African Union, AU honours outstanding African scientists for their achievements and discoveries in science, technology and innovation. It also promotes scientific development in Africa through recognition of excellence among African scientists, women, and men alike and young researchers and encourages them to persevere in their research or academic careers, and nurture their ambitions.
Ibiyinka Fuwape won the award for her outstanding contributions to cutting edge research in the areas of Climate Change, Air quality and Biophysics. Her research interests include theory of chaos and application of non-linear dynamics in coupled oscillator systems, neuronal systems, lower and upper atmospheric research.
She has established the existence, implications and significance of dynamical complexes in atmospheric parameters. With appearance in several international academic conferences and publications in respected peer-reviewed journals, she has demonstrated high level of competency in research in her chosen field of study. She currently heads the condensed matter research group domiciled at the Federal University of Technology, Akure.
The African Union Award is not her first as she is also a recipient of many scholarships, fellowships, awards and grants.
In 2006 she won the fellowship award of the Schlumberger Faculty for the Future (FFTF) program. She also received the Marshak Lectureship Award of the American Institute of Physics (APS) in 2018. She was an Associate member of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy from 1992-1996. She has been a visiting scholar to many universities in the US and Europe.
Ibiyinka has over 100 publications in reputable journals, as well as book chapters, conference abstracts and proceedings. She is a fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Physics and Nigerian Geophysical Society and also served on the Governing Council boards of some higher institutions of learning in Nigeria. She currently sits on the board of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in Nigeria and is a chairperson of a subcommittee of the board on Examinations.