Professor Fulufhelo
Professor Fulufhelo is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Executive Dean in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the Durban University of Technology (DUT).
Additionally, Prof Nemavhola is a rated scholar by the National Research Foundation of South Africa. Before joining DUT, Prof Nemavhola was the Director of School of Engineering at the University of South Africa.
He is a registered professional engineer (PrEng) with the Engineering Council of South Africa and a chartered engineer (CEng) with the Engineering Council of the United Kingdom (ECUK).
Prof Nemavhola was selected as the member of South African Young Academy (SAYAS) in 2018. Currently, his research focus is in the areas of mechanobiology, soft tissue mechanics, computational biomechanics, and engineering education particularly e-learning.
Prof Nemavhola is involved extensively in research, having authored, co-authored, and presented not less than 70 papers in both national and international journals and conferences.
He has edited three (3) books as part of his efforts towards knowledge advancement.
As the career dictates, Prof Nemavhola was a found head of a research group in Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Africa and attracted multimillion research grants from both internally and externally.
Engr. Prof. Hilary Ijeoma Owamah
Engr. Prof. Hilary Ijeoma Owamah is currently, the Director, Academic Planning, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria.
Prior to this, he served as Deputy Director, Directorate of Intensive and Part-time Studies, Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka, Oleh Campus (2020-2022).
He was also Head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2017-2020). He has to his credit over 50 scientific articles, with more than 40 of it in Scopus and Clarivate Analytics indexed journals.
At the moment, he has a Google scholar h-index of 19, i10-index of 27, and Scopus h-index of 13. He attained the enviable position of Professor of Civil Engineering in October 2019 at age 40, making him unarguably, about the youngest Professor in any Nigerian public University.
Engr. Prof. Owamah is a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (FNSE), Fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers (FNICE), Nigerian Institution of Environmental Engineers (FNIEE) and a corporate member of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN).
Engr. Prof. Owamah is the President, Academic Research and Entrepreneurship Development (A-RED) Initiative, Asaba, Delta State. Engr. Prof. Owamah has attended and presented papers in many national and foreign conferences and has received local and international awards such as recognition as an outstanding Elsevier Journal Reviewer in May 2014, the Time Africa Magazine outstanding scholar, July 2021, and Strategic Leadership Approach, Innovative Projects and Solutions to the Sustainable Development Challenges facing Africa by the African Youth Advocates Assembly, March 2021 at the West African Youth Summit, held in Accra, Ghana.
He recently received an Award of Excellence from the Nigerian Society of Engineers (national), at Abuja, for delivering the March 4th, 2021, World Engineering Day Lecture as the invited guest speaker.
Furthermore, Engr. Prof. Owamah is a recipient of the prestigious and highly competitive PTDF Ph.D. scholarship and has won lots of research grants.
Dr. Chukwuka Monyei
Chukwuka Monyei holds a doctorate in computer science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) where he specialised in the development of artificial intelligence tools for mitigating energy poverty in smart electricity grids.
Since then, he has worked as a research fellow and consultant in top research institutes at the University of the West of England (Big Data Enterprise Laboratory), the University of Hull (Energy and Environment Institute), and the University of Sussex (Science Policy Research Unit).
He is currently the managing consultant at Escrow-Tech Limited. Predominantly in these roles, he has worked on large government funded projects examining energy demand reduction in large commercial buildings, the development of AI driven heating systems for residential buildings, and more recently the integration of waste heat from data centres in district heating systems.
He currently leads a large project funded by the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) under the discovery phase of the Green Home Finance Accelerator (GHFA) scheme.
The project codenamed Carbon-Adjust seeks to reduce the cost of home retrofit investments for residents in social housing through the operationalisation of offset carbon emissions.
Dr. Monyei is well published and was until June 30, 2023, an associate editor with Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.