ProfChike Oduoza

Chike F Oduoza, Professor in Process and Manufacturing Engineering, obtained a PhD in Instrumentation and Control from UMIST (1988), and commenced a career in academia as Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Research Fellow at Teesside University and the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, followed by successive lectureship appointments at Exeter and then Wolverhampton. He has been a chartered engineer for over 27 years and a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers for 17years. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He was the UK Chairman of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), Electrochem Technology Group (2006-2010) and also a member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Peer Review College (2005- ) and recently appointed evaluator for Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, European Union framework programme for research and innovation.

He is currently the academic lead for chemical engineering at the University of Wolverhampton. His research interests are in the areas of chemical and manufacturing engineering; electroplating and corrosion protection, engineering materials, reactor design, risk management, sustainability and life cycle engineering, and oil and gas processing engineering. He is a regular consultant for Industry and has successfully managed Industry, EPSRC, EU (Brite-Euram) and EU FP7 funded Projects. He was Principal Investigator for EPSRC Industry CASE Award [GR/P04374], EPSRC Industry CASE Award [EP/D506999], and Co-investigator for EPSRC Research Grant GR/L57777. He was Project Coordinator for 1m euro EU FP7 Marie Curie IAPP [324387] project where he worked with four partners across Europe to develop risk management prototype system for the construction sector. In January this year he led a 21 member EU bid under Horizon 2020 innovative training networks (ITN) requesting 3.74m euros to address Process Design for the Future (PROCEDURE) of the chemical industry. He is currently leading FLAREMANAGER (Gas Flare Management in Oil and Gas Sector) consortium comprising 4 beneficiaries (academia) and 4 industrial partners in a bid for £790K from EPSRC to extract and convert hydrocarbons from potential flare gas into resource for fuel cells and also to manufacture chemicals. He has authored and co-authored 200 research publications including books and book chapters and belongs to several Scientific and Technical committees for international conferences. He was the former chair of the UK Electrochemical Technology Group of the Society of Chemical Industry (2006-2010) and committee member of the Energy subgroup, Electrochemical Technology Group, all of the Society of Chemical Industry. He is a member of UK Engineering Professor’s Council, EEES (Engineering Education, Employability and Skills) subcommittee. He is board member of H2FC Supergen Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research Hub and Guest Editor for Robotics and Integrated Manufacturing, and also International Journal for Advanced Manufacturing Technology. Prof Oduoza Prof Oduoza as member of UK Royal Academy of Engineering / Engineering Professors Council Ethics case studies committee has authored 5 ethics cases used as exemplars for UK national curriculum.


Professor Oduoza has supervised 30 PhDs to completion and was external examiner for MSc programmes in Engineering at Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Teesside University and also regular PhD examiner for University of Manchester, Newcastle University, Teesside University, Strathclyde University and Cranfield University and also MSc by Research examiner for Cranfield University.

Professor Oduoza was the Coordinator of European Funded FP7 Consortium (RiMaCon) within Marie Curie Industry Academia Partnerships and Pathways. He worked with a consortium of 14 researchers drawn from Industry and Academia; University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic, Vettorazzo, Padova, Venice, Italy and Thyme Software, Coventry, UK. The funding value was 1m euros (including match funding) and the project duration was four years (2013-2017). The theme of the project was the development of a risk management software system especially suitable for SMEs in the Construction sector. At the end of the project RiMaCon was declared winner at the West Midlands Construction Excellence Awards ceremony in 2017 in the category of Innovation. He is a regular consultant for industry and has won several research grants from UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Industry on the basis of which he trained PhD students. He is the current coordinator for 17 member EU Horizon 2020 consortium (PROCEDURE) bidding for funding to train Early Stage Researchers.


Professor Oduoza was the Chairman and Conference convenor for Electrochemistry and Sustainability Conference held in 2010 and also Chair and Convenor for Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM 2015) Conference, 2015, all hosted by the University of Wolverhampton.
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