Primary Specialization: Renewable Energy, Power Electronics & Applied Instrumentation.

Core Research Focus: His research lies at the intersection of renewable energy technology and applied electronics, with an emphasis on photovoltaic (PV) system optimization, thermal performance modeling of solar modules under varying building envelope conditions, and solar thermal energy systems. In electronics, his work covers power converter topologies, specifically switch-mode synchronous buck DC-DC converters, state-space averaging modeling, and equivalent series resistance (ESR) compensation. He also focuses on applied microcontroller-based instrumentation and sensor systems, designing practical electronic hardware solutions to address socioeconomic and agricultural challenges such as human-wildlife and farmer-herder boundary management

Primary Specialization: Medical Physics, Radiation Biophysics & Environmental Radioactivity.

Core Research Focus: His research investigates medical physics, environmental radioactivity, and radiation biophysics, with a focus on diagnostic radiology quality assurance, patient dosimetry, and radiation protection standards. His field and clinical studies evaluate quality control parameters in diagnostic X-ray facilities, radiation shielding evaluations, and excess lifetime cancer risks arising from natural radioactivity in mining tailings, groundwater, and surface water across the Jos Plateau. Additionally, his scholarship covers human visual biophysics, physiological optics, and the mapping of alpha and beta radionuclide distributions in environmental water systems

Primary Specialization: Electronics & Communications.

Core Research Focus: His research focuses on applied electronics and communication systems, particularly digital signal processing and filtering techniques for radar and electronic communication applications. His work includes the development and evaluation of digital filters for noise and ground-clutter suppression. He is also a Certified Consultant in the Installation and Maintenance of On-Grid and Off-Grid Solar Power Systems, with practical expertise in solar PV, inverter backup systems, and renewable-energy technologies.

Primary Specialization: Theoretical & Mathematical Physics, Gravitation, Cosmology & Radar Sounding.

Core Research Focus: His research centers on gravitation, cosmology, and mathematical physics, with work addressing gravitational waves, relativistic astrophysics, and the structure and maximum mass of neutron stars within general relativity. He also contributes to analytical quantum-mechanical modelling of molecular systems under external fields and to applied mathematical modelling of vehicular traffic flow, including flow-density relationships, kinematic wave propagation, predictive accuracy, and model transferability under varying traffic conditions.

Primary Specialization: Radiation Biophysics, Medical Physics, Radioecology & Radiation Protection.

Core Research Focus: His research investigates radiation biophysics, environmental radioecology, and medical physics, focusing on the measurement of natural radionuclides, groundwater radon ingestion hazards, and baseline gamma dosimetry. His field studies apply multivariate statistical analyses, such as principal component analysis and clustering, to map radionuclide distribution in farmland soils and mining environments across Plateau State and northern Nigeria. Complementing environmental radioactivity assessments, his scholarship evaluates annual effective dose rates, excess lifetime cancer risks, and radiation protection standards.

Primary Specialization: Biophysics, Medical Physics & Environmental Radioactivity.

Core Research Focus: His research investigates biophysics and medical physics, spanning physiological optics, non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation effects, and environmental radioactivity. His biophysical studies examine visual acuity, colour vision abnormalities, and the histomorphological impacts of radiofrequency radiation on biological tissues. In medical imaging and environmental radiological health, his work focuses on diagnostic X-ray quality assurance, including the optimization of film-to-focus distance (FFD) to minimize patient dose, alongside multivariate statistical analysis (PCA and cluster analysis) of natural radionuclides (U-238, Th-232, and K-40) and hazard indices in mining-impacted agricultural soils

Ezekiel Kaura Makama, MNIP, MSTAN is a Professor of Physics at the University of Jos, Nigeria, specializing in Atmospheric and Space Physics. His research covers atmospheric modelling, satellite meteorology, renewable energy, air quality, climate variability, and sustainable energy. He holds a B.Sc. from Bayero University, an M.Sc. from the University of Jos, and a Ph.D. & Postdoctoral Fellowship from Universiti Sains Malaysia. With 30+ years of experience, .

Primary Specialization: Theoretical & Mathematical Physics, Gravitation, Relativity & Applied Mathematical Modelling.

Core Research Focus: His research spans gravitational and relativistic physics, including analytical treatments of planetary motion in Schwarzschild space-time, gravitational effects associated with an oblate Earth, neutron-star equations of state, and gravitational-wave behaviour from compact binary systems. He also applies mathematical and computational modelling to complex dynamical systems, particularly vehicular traffic flow, where his recent work examines fundamental diagrams, flow-density relationships, kinematic wave speed, model calibration, predictive accuracy, and transferability across traffic conditions.

Primary Specialization: Medical & Radiation Physics, Diagnostic Radiology Quality Assurance & Dosimetry.

Core Research Focus: Her research centers on medical and radiation physics, with a distinct emphasis on quality assurance, radiation protection protocols, and patient dosimetry in diagnostic radiology facilities across North Central Nigeria. Her clinical studies evaluate equipment performance parameters, including kVp accuracy, half-value layer (HVL), beam alignment, and light field collimation, alongside the estimation of entrance skin doses (ESD) during routine diagnostic examinations. Additionally, her work investigates radiation safety culture in clinical departments and assesses environmental radiation emissions and cancer risks associated with natural radionuclides in local mining sediments

Professor E.S. Akanbi is an academic and geophysicist with over two decades of experience in higher education. She holds a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Calabar (1998), an M.Tech from FUT Minna (2003), and a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Jos (2015). She currently serves as a Professor at the University of Jos and has been a Visiting Professor at Plateau State University, Bokkos, since 2022. ​

​Her administrative roles at UNIJOS include serving as Faculty Staff Adviser, Level Coordinator, and Pre-nursing Coordinator. Her awards and grants include the Jos-Carnegie Female Support Initiative Award (2010), the ASUU Postgraduate Award (2011), and a TETFUND Research Grant (2014). 

Education: B.Sc., M.Sc, and PhD Physics

Specialization: Theoretical/Mathematical Physics

Research: Traffic Flow and Safety Modelling, Biomechanics, Mathematical modelling of Dynamical processes. 

Primary Specialization: Communication Physics & Radiowave Propagation.

Core Research Focus: Her research centers on communication physics and atmospheric radiowave propagation, with particular focus on signal attenuation, rain fade dynamics, path delay, and cross-polarization effects across Ku-band satellite and microwave links in tropical and high-altitude terrains like the Jos Plateau. In addition to satellite-earth link characterization and radio refractivity modeling, her work extends into wireless systems, antenna simulation, and localized instrumentation, including the design of environmental and climate data acquisition systems for propagation analysis.

Primary Specialization: Acoustics, Noise Physics & Occupational Hearing Conservation.

Core Research Focus: His research centers on environmental and occupational noise, acoustics, and the physiological effects of prolonged sound exposure. His work investigates noise-induced hearing loss, sound-pressure levels in workplaces, hearing sensitivity, and the effectiveness of hearing-protection measures among machine operators and other exposed groups. He also studies sound absorption and acoustic behaviour in enclosed spaces, while recent research examines links between occupational noise exposure and cardiovascular indicators such as blood-pressure variation.

Primary Specialization: Theoretical & Mathematical Physics, Gravitational Dynamics & Applied Energy Systems.

Core Research Focus: His research is primarily anchored in theoretical and mathematical physics, with specialized contributions to Riemannian geometry, metric tensor formulations, and gravitational field theory. His theoretical work focuses on deriving Riemannian acceleration, Laplacian operators, and dynamical gravitational field equations within oblate spheroidal coordinate systems, refining celestial and planetary motion models beyond traditional spherical Euclidean approximations. 

Christopher Davou Lawrence is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Physics, University of Jos. His current work focuses on using different potentials to understand the nuclear structure of the interacting nuclei, nucleon-nucleon (NN) interactions, as well as the sensitivity to different forms of density distributions...

He got the NRF-TWAS African Renaissance Doctoral Scholarship and proceeded to the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, for his PhD, where he worked on the Full Run-II Boosted Heavy Neutrino and Single Leptoquark search in ATLAS. He was among the recipients of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the ATLAS Collaboration.

His research interests include:Standard and beyond Standard Model physics, boosted objects, jet substructure, heavy-ion, elastic/inelastic collision  and phenomenology, radiation physics

Primary Specialization: Environmental Physics, Atmospheric Physics & Clean Energy Technologies.

Core Research Focus: His research investigates environmental and atmospheric physics, with a distinct emphasis on indoor and outdoor air pollution monitoring, particulate matter, gaseous emissions, and their associated occupational and public health consequences across North Central Nigeria. His field studies extensively evaluate criteria air pollutants generated by biomass combustion in public and household kitchens, as well as fugitive emissions and occupational hazards in manual stone crushing and quarrying environments. In tandem with atmospheric quality assessments and health indices modeling, his applied work focuses on sustainable domestic energy solution.

Qualifications: B.Sc. (A.B.U., Zaria), M.Sc. (Unijos), Ph.D. (Unijos) [Medical Physics]. Area of Specialization: Medical Physics.  Research Interest: Environmental Radiation Physics,  Radiological Physics, Application of Physics in Cardiovascular Studies, Diagnostic Ultrasound Physics.  

Awards: Certificate of Participation, College on Medical Physics, ICTP, Trieste, Italy. Certificate of training of Norway-Ghana Summer School on MRI, Ultrasound and X-ray Imaging with accredited with 6 CPD credit points by the Allied Health Professions Council of Ghana and endorsed by Federation of African Medical Physics Organization (FAMPO)

Dr. Yohanna Eggah Musah is a Lecturer II in the Department of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Jos, Nigeria. He holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Physics and a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Physics from the University of Jos, Nigeria. He was a recipient of the prestigious Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) Scholarship, through which he obtained an additional M.Sc. degree in Thermal Power from Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. He later earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. He was a Visiting Scientist/Researcher at the Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry (CEEC), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, where he engaged in research on advanced photovoltaic materials and sustainable energy technologies

Primary Specialization: Solid-State & Radiation Physics, Thermoluminescence, Luminescence Dosimetry & Materials Physics.

Core Research Focus: His research focuses on thermoluminescence and radiation-induced processes in solid materials, particularly synthetic quartz used in dosimetry. His studies examine how annealing temperature and duration modify glow-curve behaviour, trap dynamics, activation energy, thermal quenching, recombination mechanisms, and dose-response characteristics. He also contributes to applied physics research involving solar-thermal energy systems and structural modelling, extending his work toward practical energy and engineering applications

Primary Specialization: Radiation & Medical Physics, Environmental Radioactivity & Dosimetry.

Core Research Focus: His research investigates radiation and medical physics, with a distinct emphasis on environmental radiation monitoring, radionuclide characterization, and baseline ionizing radiation dosimetry across North Central Nigeria. His field studies evaluate background ionizing radiation (BIR) levels, natural radioactivity concentrations, and excess lifetime cancer risks (ELCR) in mining communities, agricultural zones, and solid mineral processing sites. Complementing radiological risk assessments, his work explores ionizing radiation applications in medical imaging diagnostics and radiation safety compliance.

B.Sc( Physics Electronics Technology), M.Sc Applied Physics (Geophysics)