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Search, discover, and connect with over 1,800 researchers, faculty members, and scholars across all departments of KNUST.
Department of Economics
The researcher's work centers on understanding and addressing health challenges in aging populations, energy systems with a global perspective, water management, sustainable practices, policy implementation, and conservation efforts within the Ghanaian context. Their focus includes examining how these areas intersect to impact socio-economic outcomes, particularly within the African continent, using case studies from Ghana.

Department of English
The researcher conducts a comprehensive study exploring the interplay between language, metaphors, and cognitive processes across various domains, examining their impact on social, cultural, biological systems through diverse perspectives including literary theory, genetics, education, and environmental literature.
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
The researcher's work is centered around innovative data analysis techniques and computational methods that address challenges in diverse scientific domains. Their research spans a range of areas including imbalanced classification problems, complex systems modeling, time series forecasting, and anomaly detection. By developing robust methodologies for data analysis, the researcher contributes to advancements in fields such as fraud detection in financial transactions, environmental monitoring through time series studies, and understanding the dynamics of infectious diseases. This work reflects a commitment to enhancing predictive and explanatory capabilities across physical and social sciences through interdisciplinary approach and cutting-edge computational techniques.
Department of Sociology & Social Work
The researcher has developed innovative optimization algorithms designed to tackle complex real-world problems in fields such as climate modeling and resource management. Their work integrates advanced computational techniques, inspired by pressing issues like climate change and sustainable resource allocation, to create practical solutions for decision-making processes.
Department of Environmental Science
The researcher delves deeply into public health and environmental impact assessment across diverse domains, encompassing mosquito-borne diseases, toxic pollutants, water quality, and land-use strategies within Ghana.
Department of Sociology & Social Work
This researcher integrates mathematical physics with diverse fields such as partial differential equations (PDEs), fluid dynamics, wave phenomena, optics, quantum mechanics, and condensed matter theory. Their work focuses on developing analytical solutions to PDEs using advanced techniques from nonlinear analysis and asymptotic methods. They study wave propagation in random media, explore quantum optics, and delve into the theoretical understanding of complex systems, balancing fundamental physics with applied mathematical approaches for real-world applications like wave filtering or information processing in complex materials.
Department of Civil Engineering
The researcher focuses on advancing interdisciplinary studies in physical sciences, employing advanced techniques such as fiber optics, ultrasound, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), machine learning, and others. Their work encompasses detecting corrosion using photoacoustic sensors, assessing concrete strength with sensor data analysis, characterizing structures through SAR imaging, estimating structural loads using multifractal analysis, and evaluating moisture content in concrete using microwave imaging. They also integrate these methods into applications like recycling waste, sustainable construction, environmental seismology, and the health monitoring of reinforced concrete structures.
Department of Wood Science and Technology
The researcher investigates wood treatment and its effects on tree physical properties, particularly examining variations in Lesser-Known Timber Species (LKTS) within the Ghanaian forest context. Their work employs advanced analytical techniques such as genetic algorithms and machine learning to assess how treatment factors influence these species' physical attributes and variability across different environments.
Department of Mathematics
The researcher focuses on mathematical modeling of tumor-immune interactions in physical sciences, particularly examining spatiotemporal dynamics and optimal control strategies to better understand cancer progression and immune modulation.
Department of Geomatic Engineering
The researcher's primary focus is on integrating behavioral patterns with evolutionary biology across diverse animal species. Their work explores themes such as neural coding, social behavior, and neurobiological mechanisms, collaborating with experts in related fields like behavioral ecology and neuroscience. Through computational methods, they analyze large datasets to uncover genetic and environmental influences on behavior. Their research integrates evolutionary perspectives into empirical studies of specific organisms, targeting behaviors found in diverse species to understand broader patterns of evolution. The approach combines longitudinal studies of individual animals with statistical models, enabling insights into the interplay between genetics and behavior. Funding sources vary across their projects but consistently aim to address fundamental questions about how traits are shaped by both genetic variation and environmental pressures. Their work seeks to identify universal mechanisms driving animal behavior while also exploring specific biological systems for a deeper understanding of evolution.
Department of Civil Engineering
The researcher applies principles of biotechnology and molecular science to address global public health challenges, demonstrating a unique intersection between biological methods and health sciences.

Department of Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
The researcher examines diverse fields such as financial inclusion, educational innovations, agricultural practices, nonprofit sectors, motivated teachers, agronomy, and human health. These themes are interconnected across microfinance, cocoa/wheat farming for sustainable livelihoods, vascular malformations in healthcare, and broader social and health contexts.