Emmanuel Iyayi Unuabonah is Professor in the Department of Chemical Sciences in the College of Natural Sciences at Redeemers University in Nigeria. His research is focused on the preparation and characterization of functional composite materials from local materials and agrowastes with the aim of treating water. He is also developing novel micro-mesoporous materials for adsorptive and catalytic purposes. He has published several articles in international peer-reviewed journals and has won several international awards and research grants and fellowships. He is a recipient of the prestigious Nigerian Academy of Science Gold Medal Award (2017). He is the Founding President and a Fellow of the Nigerian Young Academy. He is an alumnus of the TWAS Young Affiliate program and of the Global Young Academy (GYA). He is also a Fellow of the African Science Leadership Program (ASLP). He has supervised and co-supervised several MSc and PhD students. He is an Editorial Board member of HELIYON (an Elsevier Journal). He is currently the Centre Director of the Redeemer’s University African Centre of Excellence for Water and Environmental Research (ACEWATER).
