TITLE (PROF/DR/): PROF.

NAME: ADEBAYO AKEEM OTITOLOJU

POSITION: PROFESSOR                                                                                                  SPECIALISATION: ECOTOXICOLOGY

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.)

Personal Statement

I received Ph.D. in Zoology with special interest in Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Management from the University of Lagos. I have over 35 years cognate experience with excellent track record in teaching, research and supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students. My research in the areas of heavy metals monitoring and biological effects; crude oil  effects and loss of bioactivity; effects of pesticides on target and non-target organisms;  genotoxic effects of pollutants; and N-terminal sequence analysis and identification of genes responsible for heavy metal resistance. I have 179 publications, composed of 98 articles in international and national peer reviewed journals, 3 books, 4 monographs, 12 conference papers and 65 commissioned works and contributions to environmental assessment reports. I have successfully supervised and graduated twenty (20) PhD candidates. I was a recipient of the 2004 Development Co-Operation Prize by the Belgian Government and the World Laboratory Fellowship by the ICSC Switzerland. I am a Professor of Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Management of the University of Lagos. I have also been a visiting researcher to the Kings College London (KCL), University of London and a Senior Research Adviser to the Corporate Environment Department of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria. Also a former Managing Director of Unilag Consult Ltd.

Positions, Scientific Appointments, and Honours

• March 1998till date University of Lagos   Professor
• Feb. 2017 to Feb. 2021 Unilag Consult Ltd Managing Director
• 2011 to Sept. 2012 Shell Petroleum Dev. Co Senior Research Adviser
• 2005 to Apr. 2006 University of London (KCL) Visiting Lecturer
• Recipient of the 2004 Development Co-Operation Prize by the Belgian Government
• Recipient of 2005 World Laboratory Fellowship by the ICSC Switzerland

Selected Most Recent Publications / Contributions to Knowledge

1. Sogbanmu, T.O., Osibona, A.O. and Otitoloju, A.A. (2019).  Specific polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons identified as ecological risk factors in the Lagos lagoon, Nigeria. Environmental Pollution 255 (Part 2), 113295.
2. Bawa-Allah, Kafilat & Saliu, Joseph & Otitoloju, Adebayo. (2020). Facilitated depuration of hazardous non-essential elements in pre-exposed fish. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. 17. 10.1007/s13762-020-02734-9.
3. Eze, Chukwuebuka.,  Michelangeli, Frank., Otitoloju, Adebayo., Eze, Obianuju., Ibraheem, Omodele., B., Ogbuene. And Ogunwole, Germaine. (2021). Occurrence of chemical pollutants in major e-waste sites in West Africa and usefulness of cytotoxicity and induction of ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD) in determining the effects of some detected brominated flame retardants and e-waste soil-derived extracts. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28. 1-15. 10.1007/s11356-020-11155-7.
4. Eze, Chukwuebuka & Otitoloju, Adebayo & Eze, Obianuju & Tochukwu, Ugochukwu & Onodugo, Chinemelum & Ali, Aasim & Lyche, Jan & Karlsen, Odd & Goksøyr, Anders. (2022). West African e-waste-soil assessed with a battery of cell-based bioassays. Science of The Total Environment. 856. 159068. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159068.
5. Kanu, Kingsley, Anthony, Okoboshi and Otitoloju, Adebayo (2023). Haematological and biochemical toxicity in freshwater fish Clarias gariepinus and Oreochromis niloticus following pulse exposure to atrazine, mancozeb, chlorpyrifos, lambda-cyhalothrin, and their combination. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C Toxicology & Pharmacology 270(2): DOI:10.1016/j.cbpc.2023.109643

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

i. Nic Bury, University of Southampton UK

ii. Christer Hogstrand, King’s College London, UK

iii. Dr Temitope Adebambo, Emory University USA, USA

iv. Chukwuebuka Eze, Vrije Universiteit Brussel