A BOWEN University Professor of Environmental Microbiology, Samuel Olatunde Dahunsi has emerged the first Nigerian Scientist to win Harvard Radicliffe fellowship in the 2022/2023 cohort of fifty fellows.
Samuel Olatunde Dahunsi, a research Professor at Bowen University, is one of the three Africans selected as Fellows in 2022/2023 cohort and the first Nigerian scientist who broke the jinx and became the first ever Harvard Radcliffe Fellow in the Sciences, coming after Chimamanda Adichie who won the Fellowship in 2011/2012 on Fiction and Poetry, Ifeoma Fafunwa who won the Fellowship in 2017/2018 in Performing Arts and Chidi Ugwu the winner in 2020/2021 on Anthropology.
Professor Olatunde Dahunsi will conduct research in renewable and sustainable energy generation, waste management and sustainable agriculture.
He will also work on a book that addresses the problems of waste management in developing nations by focusing on the development of a sustainable method of waste collection, sorting and storage that contributes not only to solid waste management but also to the establishment of biorefineries that generate biofuel and biochemical products.
Dahunsi Olatunde holds a PhD in microbiology and has published more than 90 research articles in peer-reviewed journals.
The Radecliffe Institute for Advanced study at Harvard University is one of the world’s leading centres for interdisciplinary research and exploration that provides invaluable support to scholars and students pursuing path-breaking research and creative projects.
Meanwhile, the Vice Chancellor of the BOWEN University, Professor Joshua Ogunwole has congratulated the professor for achieving the feat.
A statement by the Public Relations Officer of BOWEN University, Toba Adaramola urged Professor Dahunsi not to rest on his oars but to use the opportunity to look into how to solve various problems in Nigeria and the world at large.
