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RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Ab initio modeling of materials properties for superconductivity, catalysis, solid state electronics, magnetic systems, etc.
• Space materials for low space orbit applying time dependent density functional theory and molecular dynamics approach.
• Machine learning models for materials prediction and design.
• Understanding the kinetics for liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC) dehydrogenation.
• Quantum mechanical studies of solid-state systems, magnetic and thermal properties of materials.
• Defects, surfaces, semiconductors, interface, hard and ultra-hard materials.
• Electronic properties of energy-relevant materials as batteries, photovoltaics and photocatalysis.
• Computational high throughput screening, machine learning, high-performance computing, and experimental validation.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr Kingsley Onyebuchi Obodo is a Nigerian, an accomplished author, highly regarded and seasoned computational condensed matter/physics researcher with the National research foundation of South Africa rating of C2. He holds an undergraduate degree in Physics and electronics technology (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria), a master’s degree in Materials science (African University of Science and Technology, Abuja, Nigeria), and a Ph.D. in Physics (University of Pretoria, South Africa). He holds several positions currently as an extra-ordinary associate professor at the North-West University, South Africa; senior lecturer at ICTP-EAIFR, Rwanda; and Guest Lecturer at University of Nigeria, Nsukka, NITHECS associate, etc. His research areas include the development of next generation green and catalytic materials for hydrogen technologies; prediction of new materials for space application; understanding the underlying fundamentals of sustainable energy and energy economy. The research conducted by Dr Obodo entails the application of rational design principles and computational materials design, prediction, and search in 1D, 2D and 3D systems for various applications. He is actively involved in mentoring and student supervision of students in African continent. He has several years of research and teaching expertise and to date has published over 80 research articles in high impact journals with a US Patent.