Affiliateship: 2020-2024
Cohort 5
Country (Nationality)
Nigeria
Discipline
Engineering Technology & Applied Sciences
Bio
Isaac Akinwumi is a Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering and the Postgraduate Coordinator of the Department of Civil Engineering at Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria and his Master of Engineering and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria.
He is a Commonwealth Scholar, having received the Commonwealth Split-site PhD Scholarship Award in 2015, which ensured he spent a year as a Visiting Postgraduate Researcher at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He was a member of the UNLEASH Founding Class, as an SDG Talent during the 2017 UNLEASH Innovation Lab, which took place at Denmark. He is a Co-Investigator on two seed funding (Frontiers of Engineering Development and Frontiers of Development) projects funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), UK. He was the Technical Chair of the International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructural Development (ICSID) 2019.
His research works/interest are in the areas of Geotechnical Engineering (soil improvement, landfill lining and groundwater protection), sustainable construction materials and Environmental Engineering (waste management; water, sanitation and hygiene; marine plastic pollution; and pollution prevention). He is an author/co-author of over 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers.
He is the Financial Secretary of the prestigious Nigerian Young Academy (NYA), a Corporate Member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, a Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and a Registered Engineer with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN).