Fellow
Babalola Olubukola Oluranti
Professor and Research Director
Current nationality
Nigeria
South Africa
Current country of residence
South Africa
Affiliation / Institution
North-West University
Biodata
Babalola (Pr.Sci.Nat, MASSAF, FTWAS, FAS, FAAS, FISC) is the Vice President of the Org. for Women in Sci. for the Developing World. Baba, a National Research Foundation-rated scientist with MBA, sits on several editorial boards and acts as an International Advisor to a few others. She was with Int. Inst. of Tropical Agric (Nigeria), ICIPE (Kenya), Weizmann Inst. of Sci. (Israel), Univ of the Western Cape, and now North-West Univ (South Africa). She has 21 years of rhizosphere research experience. She is passionate about capacity building & has trained 35 PhDs & 25 MScs. Many of her PhD. products are in academics in the UK, Italy, America, Canada, Australia, Sweden, & Africa. She authored 400 publications. She is an AAAS-TWAS Science diplomacy alumnus, impacting the world in policymaking, diplomacy, and diplomatic engagement. Her international experience spans the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. She enjoys global partnerships, and her efforts have received many awards, including the finalist, GenderInSite 2020, Clarivate 2022 & 2023, SAWISA 2024. Baba has an H-index of 71, 23,997 citations & 56 professional certificates. She is #1 in Africa for Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
Sustainable Development Goals
Keywords
Soil metagenomics, Sequencing, Rhizosphere, PGPR, Bioinformatics, Biofertilizer, Agricultural Microbiology
ELECTED
2021
Place of birth
Lagos
Country of birth
Nigeria
Section
02. Biological Sciences
Country where living and working for the majority of the last 10 years
South Africa
Public contact information
Website, social media accounts or additional info
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4344-1909
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Olubukola_Babalola
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olubukola-oluranti-babalola-75674b18/
https://natural-sciences.nwu.ac.za/babalola-laboratory/about-us
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rmHHG2UAAAAJ&hl=en
https://owsd.net/news/news-events/owsd-vice-presidents-elected-2021-2025
https://www.scipod.global/professor-olubukola-oluranti-babalola-improving-the-production-of-cowpea-a-sustainable-superfood/
https://news.nwu.ac.za/nwu-academic-inducted-fellow-nigeria-academy-science
https://www.adscientificindex.com/scientist.php?id=96341
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=36166570300
List of publications
Last updated on 26/09/2024