Speaker

Biography

Stephen Okiemute Akpasi is a chemical engineer who received his bachelor's degree from Delta State University in Nigeria. He completed his master's degree at the Durban University of Technology in South Africa, where he focused on the development of adsorbents for carbon capture. He recently completed an ERASMUS exchange program at the University of Valladolid in Spain, where he completed a research stay in the laboratory of the Institute of Sustainable Processes and collaborated on the evaluation of the performance of microbial conversion of CO2 to succinic acid via biogas upgrading. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Green Engineering Research at the Durban University of Technology. His main research interest is in the synthesis of environmentally friendly materials for catalysis.