Ibiyinka A. Fuwape

Ibiyinka A. Fuwape (born 18 December 1962) is a Nigerian academic, professor in physics and the 2nd substantive Vice-Chancellor of the Michael and Cecilia Ibru University, a private university in Nigeria.

Early life

Ibiyinka Fuwape was born in Lagos State on December 8, 1962 to the family of David Ademokun. She started her education at Reagan Memorial Baptist Girls Primary School, Yaba, Lagos. She proceeded to Methodist Girls' High School, where she earned her Ordinary level certificate, later earning her Higher School Certificate from 1979 to 1981 at Queen's College Yaba. She earned her Master of Science (M.Sc.) in 1986, and was promoted to Professor in October 2003. She became a Team Leader for the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics working group for women in physics in 2002 and is still actively involved in the activities of this group.

Her current research is about chaotic dynamics of the lower atmosphere.

Honours and awards In 2018, Fuwape was the recipient of the American Physical Society's Marshak Lectureship. Her address at the meeting of the Society was on the topic 'Women in Physics in Nigeria and Other sub-Saharan African Countries: Progress and Challenges'. She was the African Union Kwame Nkrumah Award for Scientific Excellence (Regional), 2020 edition.

She was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022 "for decades of leadership in the advancement of women in physics in Nigeria and Africa, along with major research contributions solving problems in climate change, agriculture, and finance at the interface of physics and society, thereby benefiting economic development in Africa".

Personal life She is married to Joseph Fuwape, former vice Chancellor of federal University of technology Akure.