Adekunle Adeyeye
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Adekunle Olusola Adeyeye (born 1 May 1968)[1] is a Nigerian academic and university administrator,[2] announced in July 2019 as principal of Trevelyan College, Durham University.[3]
Originally from Nigeria, Adeyeye received his first degree from the University of Ilorin, in Kwara State, Nigeria, before moving to the UK to study for a master's degree in microelectronics engineering at the University of Cambridge, followed by a PhD in physics at the university's Cavendish Laboratory in 1996.[4][5]
In 1996, he was the first Nigerian elected as a research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, but left in 1997 to take up a 9-month post as a senior research engineer at the Data Storage Institute, a research and development organisation established by the National University of Singapore, before returning to Trinity College.[citation needed] In 2000, he was a founding researcher at the Information Storage Materials Laboratory at the National University of Singapore, becoming a full professor in 2012.[2] In 2014, he became the first head of Ridge View Residential College, the University of Singapore's first residential college outside University Town.[6]
In 2002 he was cited by Technology Review as one of their 100 innovators under 35 "whose work and ideas will change the world".[4] He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Nanotechnology, and was an IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2013.[5] In 2018, Adeyeye was elected to fellowship of the American Physical Society "[f]or contributions to synthesis and characterization of magnetic nanostructures and their applications in low power magnonic information processing."[7]
Since January 2020 he has been Principal of Trevelyan College, Durham, and Professor of Physics at Durham University.[3][8]
He is married to Adefolake and has a daughter and two sons.[2]
