Dr Oluleye is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the Centre for Environmental Policy and a member of the Sargent Centre for Process Systems Engineering with over 15 years combined experience in academia and the process industry.
She has a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria in 2008, completed an MSc in Advanced Chemical Process Design at the University of Manchester in 2010, worked as a Process Engineer before beginning her PhD in 2012.
Dr Oluleye’s research is centred on developing frameworks to support adoption of low-to-zero carbon innovations for industrial systems (comprising industrial processes and their associated energy systems for a plant, site, or cluster).
She has worked as the lead researcher in a range of projects in both academia and industry, covering a variety of topics including advanced waste heat recovery in industry and the integration of renewable energy, exploiting business models to support technology adoption, emerging strategies for decarbonising energy intensive industries, and renewable gas production in Europe, and globally.