Editorial Board Member

Dr Abafe received a PhD Chemistry in April 2015 under Prof. Bice Martincigh from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. He undertook postdoctoral fellowship at the same university for 18 months before joining the Agricultural Research Council, South Africa in November 2016 as a senior research scientist and project manager, responsible for the scientific and technical aspects of the South African national residue-monitoring programme for antibiotics, veterinary drugs, pesticides, mycotoxins and emerging chemical contaminants in food and feed of animal origin. Dr. Abafe has received different prizes and awards, including the esteemed Head of Department Prize for the Overall Best Graduating Student in the Department of Chemistry during his first degree; and a recipient of the University of KwaZulu-Natal fee remission doctoral scholarship and also, the college of Agriculture, Engineering and Science doctoral bursary for the 3 years duration of his PhD study. He was a visiting scientist at the Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Sweden and currently appointed as an honorary research fellow at the School of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. He is a Y1 rated researcher by the National Research Foundation of South Africa (Interpretation of Y1 Researcher: “A young researcher who is recognised by all or the overriding majority of reviewers as having the potential to establish him/herself as a researcher of considerable international standing on the basis of the quality and impact of his/her recent research outputs”). He has received numerous research and seed funding with combined value in excess of US$1 million in the past 5 years. Dr. Abafe is recipient of the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF) awarded by the European Commission. Dr. Abafe’s research addresses all aspects of method development and validation for drug of abuse, antibiotics, veterinary drugs, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, emerging contaminants and persistent organic pollutants (POPs). He is very keen in using chromatography and mass spectrometry in studying the environmental sources, fate and human exposure to emerging trace organic chemicals, POPs and microplastics additive. Dr. Abafe has presented scientific papers in more than thirty local and international conferences and has published more than 24 articles in peer reviewed scientific journals such as Science of the Total Environment, Chemosphere, Indoor Air, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Research etc. He is an editorial board member of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry and an Associate Editor of the journal Emerging Contaminants.

Exposure assessment, Environmental analysis, Method development and validation, Chromatography, Mass spectrometry, Biomonitoring, Persistent organic pollutants, Emerging contaminants