Oluwasegun Chijioke Adekoya is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Chemical, Metallurgical, and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), South Africa, where he also earned a Master’s degree in Polymer Engineering (cum laude). He previously completed a Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science at the University of Nigeria. He is affiliated with the Institute of NanoEngineering Research (INER) under the supervision of Professors E. R. Sadiku and Y. Hamam.
With over a decade of clinical experience in blood sciences, Adekoya is a UK Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)–registered biomedical scientist and a Licentiate Member of the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS). His interdisciplinary background informs his doctoral research, which focuses on in silico modelling of polymeric nanocarriers for drug delivery. His work integrates density functional theory, molecular dynamics simulations, and predictive modelling of PEGylated graphene oxide systems for respiratory antiviral therapeutics.
He has published extensively in Pharmaceutics, ACS Omega, and Advanced Theory and Simulations. His research has earned several distinctions, including First Place at the 2024 Faculty Research Day Poster Presentation, the TUT Innovation Challenge Finalist Award (2023), the Prof. Sabu Thomas Master’s Thesis Award (2023), the TUT-FEBE Top Achiever and Excellence Award (2023), and the Top Postgraduate Publication Award (2022). He is also a recipient of the TUT Full-Time Postgraduate Scholarship.
His research interests include nanomedicine, computational pharmaceutics, and polymer-based systems for respiratory infection control.
