User:AthalGolwen/Omololu Akin-Ojo

Omololu Akin-Ojo is a condensed matter physicist and director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics - East African Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-EAIFR) in Kigali, Rwanda.

Education
Akin-Ojo earned a Master's degree in Physics at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, and a PhD in Physics at the University of Delaware in the United States.

Career
Akin-Ojo became an assistant professor African University of Science and Technology (AUST) in Abuja, Nigeria in 2012.

Akin-Ojo led the Pan African Materials Institute (PAMI) at AUST  and served on its scientific advisory board.

In 2017, Akin-Ojo was appointed as first director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics - East African Institute for Fundamental Research.

Akin-Ojo also worked as a senior lecturer of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Ibadan. He was awarded funding through the APS Innovation Fund for the U.S.–Africa Initiative in Electronic Structure (USAfri) to foster collaboration between African and US physicists, together with Richard Martin and Renata Wentzcovitch.