Aerosols and Precipitation Over Africa: Progress, Challenges, and Prospects

Dr. Akinsanola, is a meteorologist and climate scientist who is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). He also holds a joint appointment position at the Environmental Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory. He received his PhD (Climate Science) from the City University of Hong Kong. His PhD thesis and his current research focuses on utilizing varieties of climate models and observations to better understand climate dynamics. Prior to joining UIC, Akintomide was an Assistant Atmospheric Scientist and Postdoctoral Appointee at ANL, and postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Geography, University of Georgia, USA. In summer 2018, he was a Visiting Scholar at Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen. He has also worked for many years as a lecturer at the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science, FUTA. He currently leads as co-chair, the CLIVAR/GEWEX monsoon panel’s working group on African monsoon.

Dr. Adeyemi Adebiyi is an atmospheric scientist at the Assistant Professor rank in the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences at University of California - Merced, and he is also a member of the Environmental Systems Graduate Group at the same university. Before joining UC Merced, he was a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California - Los Angeles. He obtained his M.Sc.-equivalent diploma in Earth System Physics at the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, and his Ph.D. in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography from the University of Miami, Florida. Dr. Adebiyi's research focuses on understanding the impacts of atmospheric aerosols, such as dust and smoke, on the regional and global climate, including the impacts on aerosols on radiation, clouds, and meteorology.