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Search, discover, and connect with over 1,800 researchers, faculty members, and scholars across all departments of KNUST.
Department of Physics
The researcher primarily focuses on integrating advanced computational techniques across diverse health science domains, including AI for cancer detection, radiology applications of radiotherapy devices, radiation therapy optimization, and medical imaging through SPECT/CT. Their work emphasizes the application of innovative methods to enhance diagnostic accuracy in cancers and improve treatment efficacy in various health fields, showcasing a multidisciplinary approach using computational tools in advancing healthcare solutions.
Department of Accounting and Finance
The researcher's work focuses on advancing understanding across diverse fields related to financial literacy and its evolution, tax compliance strategies, auditing practices, sustainability trends, corporate governance, and fiscal policy. Their research explores the interplay between financial education and behavioral changes, examines the role of ISO certification in governance quality, investigates the effectiveness of audit software in emerging markets, and delves into sustainable supply chain management through a blend of big data analytics and content analysis. The study also addresses corporate social responsibility, corporate governance practices, and fiscal policy implications, highlighting how these areas intersect to drive economic growth and social development.
Department of Surgery
The researcher's work focuses on enhancing burn injury management and its outcomes across diverse fields. Their publications address burn patient epidemiology, novel treatment approaches, chemical burns, severe incidents in the middle belt, topical heparin use, and skin toxicity. This research integrates surgical techniques, diagnostics, treatments, complications, rehabilitation, and community-based awareness to improve burn care worldwide.

Department of Environmental Science
The researcher's overall research focus centers on examining the interconnected relationships between human activities, natural systems, and societal impacts in Northern Ghana. Using various domains such as land use, urban expansion, child nutrition, energy practices, and agricultural innovations, the study explores how these elements influence each other across different life stages—e.g., land conversion affecting ecosystems, urbanization impacting livelihoods, water scarcity influencing nutrition, environmental effects from wood producers, and adaptive agriculture responding to changes. The overarching goal is to understand how these interconnected systems shape the region's economies and improve quality of life through informed decision-making and innovation.
Department of Agroforestry
The researcher's work focuses on integrating themes across diverse scientific disciplines, including environmental health, soil properties, agricultural systems, and geotechnical materials, with a primary focus on understanding and mitigating environmental challenges such as heavy metal contamination, soil carbon dynamics, cocoa and sweet potato agroecosystems resilience, climate-related impacts in Cocoa landscapes, and forest material rehabilitation.
Department of Chemistry
The researcher's work spans a wide range of topics within the life and health sciences, with a focus on understanding the impacts of environmental contaminants. Their studies include health risk assessments related to pesticide exposure in Ghanaian vegetables, validation of analytical methods for pharmaceuticals like RP-HPLC, investigation of endocrine-disrupting chemicals leading to obesity, and assessment of heavy metal contamination across various environments. They also conduct research into water quality, plant biochemistry, and the role of natural products such as corchorus and Amaranthus plants in human health. Additionally, they study arsenic contamination in drinking water and evaluate mercury levels in Ghanaian food supplements. Their work contributes to a deeper understanding of how environmental chemicals affect ecosystems and human health across different domains.
Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
The researcher's work centers on the production of bioethanol through a variety of organisms and substrates, including white-rot basidiomycetous fungi, green seaweeds, pito mash, cassava peels, and enzymatic processes. Their research integrates insights from the physical sciences, particularly substrate conversion using cassava peels, and life sciences, focusing on the bioactive compounds derived from these organisms. The researcher's contributions span themes such as enzymes (biocatalytic potential of basidiomycetes), polyaccharides, and cassava research, each involving specific papers that support their goal of advancing bioethanol production methods. Their work also highlights the optimization of enzymatic processes in industrial settings, which ties into developing efficient biochemical systems through distributed computing and process optimization techniques.
Department of Sociology & Social Work
The researcher's work integrates methodologies from data science, computational modeling, and biostatistics to develop systematic synthesis approaches for analyzing complex biological systems. Their research applies these integrated techniques in health informatics and clinical settings to address challenges in disease modeling and personalized treatment strategies.

Department of Radiology
The researcher has made significant contributions to the field of mathematics with a focus on algebraic topology, category theory, and homotopy type theory. Their work integrates foundational mathematical concepts with practical applications in functional programming, particularly using languages such as Idris and Agda. This integrated approach bridges abstract theoretical work with real-world problem-solving, showcasing a rigorous exploration of structures that can enhance both pure mathematics and applied fields like computer science and physics.
Department of Pharmacy Practice
The researcher's work is centered around several critical areas of healthcare in African regions, focusing on preventing antibiotic misuse, addressing vaccine hesitancy, studying blood pressure and its effects, examining systemic health issues, and exploring the role of stoma care in complications. Their research spans multiple domains within health sciences and social sciences, contributing significantly to understanding patient outcomes and preventive measures across various systems.
Department of Molecular Medicine
This researcher's work focuses on the intersection of immunology and metabolic health, examining how Hepatitis B vaccination affects immune characteristics and factors influencing an immune response in Ghanaian Adolescents while also assessing cardiovascular risk factors related to diabetes and pre-diabetes among University Students. Their research combines immunological evaluations with broader public health questions to explore the connections between vaccination outcomes, metabolic health, and immune responses.
Department of Geomatic Engineering
The researcher focuses on a broad range of issues, examining the environmental and social impacts of climate change, the role of ecosystems in sustaining human well-being, and innovations in agriculture that improve food production while reducing resource use. Their work bridges the gap between environmental science, technology, and public health, advocating for sustainable practices across diverse sectors.