TITLE (PROF/DR/): Dr.

NAME: Temitope O. Sogbanmu

POSITION: Senior Lecturer SPECIALISATION: Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Management

EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with Bachelor’s degree or other initial professional education, such as nursing, include postdoctoral training and residency training if applicable. Add/delete rows as necessary.)

1. Personal Statement

Dr. Sogbanmu is an Environmental Toxicologist and Pollution Management Specialist with ~20 years of experience in the risk assessment and management of organic pollutants using transdisciplinary approaches. This is with a view to providing targeted environmental management advice to evidence or knowledge users. She is an ardent researcher with several publications and a serial multiple award/grant-winning scholar in environmental research, environmental evidence leadership, science communication and policy. She is recognized in the environmental field evidenced by her receipt of awards such as the Africa Evidence Leadership Award by the Africa Evidence Network in 2022; L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science, Sub-Saharan Africa Award, 2014, among others. Dr Sogbanmu is an advocate of the UN SDGs 6, 11, 13, and 14, African Union Agenda 2063 Goal 7, Science and Risk Communication, Evidence for Policy and Researcher Visibility for Societal Impact. She holds a doctorate degree as well as Certificates in Management, Human Resource Management, and Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria (YouWiN). She is the Founder of the Evidence Use in Environmental Policymaking in Nigeria (EUEPiN) and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lagos where she leads the Environmental Evidence Synthesis and Knowledge Translation Research Cluster, TETFund Centre of Excellence in Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management (EESKT-TCEBCEM).

1. Positions, Scientific Appointments, and Honours

• Awardee – L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2014
• Winner – Africa Evidence Leadership Award 2022: Evidence Intermediaries Category
• Winner – Science Advice Project Concept Competition, International Network for Government Science Advice, Africa Chapter, 2020
• Fellow – Commonwealth Futures Climate Research Cohort (2023-2024)
• Norbert Elias Research Fellow – Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld, Germany, 2023
• TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visit Fellowship to RWTH Aachen, Germany – 2020
• Science Advice for Policy Fellowship to the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology ny The African Academy of Sciences (The AAS), 2019
• Affiliate – African Academy of Sciences (The AAS) (2019-2024)
• Vice President – Nigerian Young Academy (NYA), 2021-2023
• Metrics Task Force Member – Nigeria Plastic Action Partnership (NPAP) (2022-2024)
• Ecology/Solid Wastes/Climate Change Expert – Panel Review of draft Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) appointed by the Federal and Lagos State Ministries of Environment, 2018 till date
• Senior Editor – 3Ds (Debates, Dilemmas and Discoveries), IEAM (2023 till date)
• Editorial Board Member – Communications Earth and Environment (2023 till date) | Frontiers in Water (Environmental Water Quality) (2021 till date) | Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (2021-2023)
• Reviewer – Newton Prize 2020
• Advisory Board Member – One Health and Development Initiative (OHDI) (2021 till date)
• Advisory Board Member – AwarenEarth (March 2025 till date)
• Board of Trustees Member – Society of Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Mitigation (SETPOM) (2013 till date)
• Co-Founder & Inaugural Global Lead – Global Indigenous Youth Summit on Climate Change (GIYSCC), 2023 till date
• Founder/Partnerships Lead – Sustainable Coastal Ecosystems Partnerships through Assessments and Community Empowerment (SCEPACE) (Jan. 2025 till date)
• Founder – Evidence Use in Environmental Policymaking in Nigeria (EUEPiN) (2020 till date)
• Cluster Lead – Environmental Evidence Synthesis and Knowledge Translation Research Cluster, TETFund Centre of Excellence in Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management (EESKT-TCEBCEM)
• Co-Founder – Environmental Evidence Portal for Nigeria (EEPoN), 2021 till date

1. Selected Most Recent Publications/Contributions to Knowledge

(*Corresponding Author, __________ supervised BSc/MSc/PhD project student)

1. Nedozi, O. I., *Sogbanmu, T. O., Abdulrazaq, M. M. and Oloyo, A. K. (2025) Simulated occupational exposure to volatile organic compounds from printing ink alter behavioral, neurological, oxidative, hepatic and kidney indices in mice. Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health https://doi.org/10.1080/19338244.2025.2503917
2. *Sogbanmu, T. O. and Dauda, A. B. (2024). Native Nigerian Fish Species Used as Models in Ecotoxicological Studies: A Rapid Systematic Review. In: Fish Species in Environmental Risk Assessment Strategies, ed. G. E. Liwszyc and M. L. Larramendy, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2024, Chapter 8, pp. 134-161.
3. *Sogbanmu, T. O., *Jean Gordon, H. S., El Youssfi, L., Obare, F. D. and Duncan, S., Hicks, M., Bello, K. I., Ridzuan, F., Aremu, A. O. (2023). Indigenous youth must be at the forefront of climate diplomacy. Nature 620: 273-276.

1. Yalwaji, B., John-Nwagwu, H. O. and *Sogbanmu, T. O. (2022). Plastic pollution in the environment in Nigeria: a rapid systematic review of the sources, distribution, research gaps and policy needs. Scientific African 16: e1220
2. Oyeniran, D. O., *Sogbanmu, T. O. and Adesalu, T. A. (2021). Antibiotics, algal evaluations and subacute effects of abattoir wastewater on liver function enzymes, genetic and haematologic biomarkers in the freshwater fish, Clarias gariepinus. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 212: 111932.

1. Collaborators/Networks (International inclusive, five (5) maximum)

1. Ussif Rashid Sumaila – Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Canada
2. Thomas-Benjamin Seiler – Hygiene-Institut des Ruhrgebiets, Gelsenkirchen, Germany

• Feng Mao – Institute for Global Sustainable Development (IGSD), Univ. of Warwick, UK

1. Gideon Idowu – Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Ondo State, Nigeria
2. Lasisi Adedoyin – Environmental Assessment Department, Lagos State Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Lagos, Nigeria