Rate My Professor Ibukun Oluwoye

Ibukun Oluwoye earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Murdoch University in 2017. His doctoral thesis, titled "Mitigation of NOx with pyrolysate fragments of solid fuels and their surrogates," investigated methods to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions through the use of pyrolysate materials derived from solid fuels. Following his PhD, he served as a postdoctoral research fellow at Murdoch University, where he was affiliated with the Discipline of Chemistry and Physics in the College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, as well as the School of Engineering and Information Technology.

Oluwoye's research specializations include combustion chemistry, NOx emission mitigation from sources such as mining explosives and boilers, products of incomplete combustion in biomass reburning, reactivity of singlet oxygen with organic fuels and contaminants, catalytic activation of CO2 into syngas, torrefaction of densified biomass, and degradation of polymers in subsea environments. He has supervised PhD theses at Murdoch University, including "Theoretical studies on the initiation oxidation reactions of selected cyclic monoterpenes by singlet oxygen" in 2019 and "Niobium Ceria-based Catalysis for Selected Chemical Transformations" in 2023. Key publications encompass "Atmospheric emission of NOx from mining explosives" (2017), "Products of incomplete combustion from biomass reburning" (2020), "Combustion chemistry of COS and occurrence of intersystem crossing" (2021), "Review of Chemical Reactivity of Singlet Oxygen with Organic Fuels and Contaminants" (2021), "Torrefaction of densified biomass using flue gases in a fixed bed reactor" (2023), "Thermochemical activation of CO2 into syngas over ceria-supported niobium oxide catalyst" (2023), and "Degradation and lifetime prediction of plastics in subsea and offshore infrastructures" (2023). His publications have received over 1100 citations. Oluwoye currently holds a Research Fellow position at the Curtin Corrosion Centre, Curtin University.