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IBIYINKAAGBOOLA FUWAPE is a Professor of Physics and the serving Vice-Chancellor of the Michael and Cecilia Ibru University (MCIU), Agbarha-Otor, Delta State. Ibiyinka Fuwape graduated from the prestigious University of Ibadan, Ibadan with a First-Class degree in Physics in 1984. She was the best graduating student in the entire university. She obtained her Master’s degree and Doctor of Philosophy degree in Physics from the same university in 1986 and 1989 respectively. She was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer at the Federal University of Technology, Akure in 1989 and rose through the ranks to the position Professor of Physics in 2003. She previously served as the Dean, School of Sciences at the Federal University of Technology Akure and was the first woman to serve as Dean of any School in the university. In 2012, she received the Best Dean of the year award for her outstanding performance. Since 2017, she has been
the Vice Chancellor of Michael and Cecilia Ibru University (MCIU), a fast-growing private university in South – South Nigeria.
She became the National President of the Organization of Women in Science for the developing world (OWSD), Nigeria Chapter in 2018. She has been the Team leader for Nigeria on the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Working Group of Women in Physics since 2002.
In year 2021, she won the prestigious African Union Kwame Nkrumah Regional Award for Scientific Excellence 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 also young researchers and encourages them to persevere in their research or academic careers and nurture their ambitions. Ibiyinka Fuwape won this award for her outstanding contributions to cutting edge research in the areas of Climate Change, Air quality and Biophysics.
Ibiyinka Fuwape is 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. She has over 100 publications in reputable journals, as well as book chapters, conference abstracts and proceedings. She is a member of many scientific associations both nationally and internationally. She is a fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Physics and Nigerian Geophysical Society. She has 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.
She is a Christian and she is happily married to Prof. Joseph Adeola Fuwape, the current Vice – Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) and they are blessed with children. She is the Director, Research and Planning, Institute of Organisation and administrative Risk Management.
