Olalere Olusegun Abayomi is an experienced researcher with demonstrated multidisciplinary expertise in Chemical Engineering Science, Food Biotechnology, Bioprocess Engineering, Analytical Chemistry, Product Development and Process Optimization. He finished his PhD from the University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia under the Department of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering. Before that he obtained his master’s degree in Industrial and Production Engineering from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He had his first degree in Chemical Engineering from the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria. He has authored over 60 research articles in Scopus and Web of Science and has been cited more than 1000 times. He currently works as a Research Associate at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Bath, United Kingdom. He is an active reviewer for many journals, and currently an Associate Editor at the Jundishapur Journal of Natural Pharmaceutical Products.
Abiola Ezekiel Taiwo is a Chemical Engineer, Lecturer, and Researcher, a recipient of the National Research Foundation (NRF) and The World Academy of Science (TWAS) African Renaissance Doctoral Fellowship grant at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa between 2016-2019. He was awarded the Green Chemistry best price in the 2017 Elsevier Foundation - TWAS Sustainability Case Studies Competition award in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. He is a member of American Chemical Society (ACS), South African Institute of Chemical Engineers (SAIChE), Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE, London), Council for the regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), and Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE). He is currently a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Engineering, Mangosuthu University of Technology, Durban, South Africa. His research areas of specialization and interests are Artificial Intelligence, Bioprocessing, Data Science, Food Science, and Nutritional Studies, Modeling and Simulation, Process Optimization, and Renewable Energy. He has received invitations to participate in national, international conferences and public lectures. He has published in reputational journals and book chapters and serves as a reviewer of many high-impact journals and book review processes.
Bernardo Castro-Dominguez is an Assistant Professor (Tenured) in Chemical Engineering and lead of the Smart Process Engineering Lab at the University of Bath (UK). His research has focused on the integration of digital technologies for materials discovery and process design and optimization. He has >30 publications in scientific journals (e.g. Nat Comm), 3 book chapters and one patent, and manages a research portfolio of >£1.3 million. He is core member of the Institute for Sustainability, the EPSRC Continuous Manufacturing Hub (CMAC), and Deputy Director of the Centre for Digital, Design and Manufacturing at the University of Bath. Dr Castro-Dominguez has worked as researcher at the University of Limerick (Ireland) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (US). He was recipient of the prestigious Monbukagakusho Scholarship to pursue his PhD studies at the University of Tokyo (Japan) in the area of Chemical Systems Engineering. He holds a BSc and MSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Utah (US).