Esther Titilayo Akinlabi

Esther Titilayo Akinlabi is a Nigerian South African Professor of Mechanical Engineering. She is the Director of the Pan African University for Life and Earth Sciences Institute (PAULESI), Nigeria. She was the Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering Science, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg (UJ), South Africa. She was also the Vice Dean for Teaching and Learning of the institution. She is a member of Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) and a member of African Academy of Sciences.

Early life and education
Esther Titilayo Akinlabi was born in Kabba, Kogi State, Nigeria. She graduated from St Barnabas Secondary School, Kabba and obtained her first degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Technology, Akure in 1997. She obtained her M.Sc. mechanical engineering from University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria in 2003 and she moved to Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa for her PhD in 2010.

Awards and memberships
Esther Titilayo Akinlabi is a member of the South African Young Academy of Science. She is a registered member of the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA), the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), the South African Institution of Mechanical Engineering, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) and Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD).