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Search, discover, and connect with over 1,800 researchers, faculty members, and scholars across all departments of KNUST.
Department of Indigenous Art and Technology
The researcher has focused on developing sustainable practices across multiple domains such as manufacturing, education, and business, employing cutting-edge technologies like RFID tags and BIM systems to enhance efficiency and innovation in these sectors.
Department of Painting and Sculpture
This researcher has made significant contributions to several key areas in science and technology, with their work spanning quantum computing applications, optimization algorithms for machine learning, cancer biology, and gene expression regulation. Their research focuses on advancing computational methods for solving complex scientific problems, particularly in areas such as metabolic optimization algorithms and protein interaction networks in cancer. Additionally, they explore biological systems at the molecular level, including immunology, with a focus on understanding cellular processes and developing innovative therapeutic strategies. Their interdisciplinary approach integrates physics, computer science, and biology to address challenges in fields ranging from drug discovery to metabolic engineering.

Department of Pharmacy Practice
The researcher has focused on understanding and quantifying the impacts of climate change and human activities on ecosystems and biodiversity, with particular emphasis on ecosystem services and disaster resilience. Their work integrates historical data, computational models, and expert assessments to assess how land-use changes, such as deforestation and urbanization, influence ecological balances. The methodology combines both theoretical analysis and practical applications to evaluate the long-term consequences of these human activities on ecosystems. Their research also highlights the importance of biodiversity loss in exacerbating climate-related hazards like floods and wildfires, underscoring the need for adaptive management strategies.
Department of Animal Science
The researcher's work investigates how Bayesian inference underpins decision-making processes, examines gazing behavior's role in cognitive functions, explores foveal processing in visual perception, and studies eye movement patterns linked to early sensory processing. This comprehensive study integrates psychological principles with neural mechanisms, particularly focusing on the interplay between attention and human cognition across various domains.
Department of Computer Science
The researcher's work centers on advancing AI and machine learning applications across diverse domains, employing innovative techniques such as enhanced feature extraction, anomaly detection, network security, sentiment analysis, augmented reality, and biological imaging. Their research integrates methodologies like deep learning models, graph-based approaches, optimization algorithms, and bioinformatics to address challenges in smart agriculture, network security, software engineering, healthcare, biology, and public health.
Department of Clinical Microbiology
The researcher uses genetic and antimicrobial susceptibility profiling to explore how various bacterial infections affect human health in neglected regions of Ghana. Focused on antibiotic resistance, parasitic infections (especially among humans), the diversity of Staphylococcus species, vector-borne pathogens like Rickettsia and Malaria, and their impact on immunocompromised populations. The goal is to advance understanding of bacteria's roles in disease and improve treatment strategies, particularly targeting neglected regions.
Department of Economics
The researcher has focused extensively on integrating mathematical modeling with biological mechanisms to study disease progression across various domains, employing techniques from bio-mathematics to predict outcomes and optimize therapeutic interventions. Their work spans the application of these methods in virology, immune system dynamics, and immunogenic processes, highlighting a strong interdisciplinary approach aimed at advancing our understanding of complex biological systems through predictive and analytical lenses.
Department of Civil Engineering
The researcher's work is centered on the comprehensive evaluation and understanding of asphalt materials across various domains. Their research encompasses pavement performance evaluation, construction engineering applications, urban and rural development challenges, natural fiber reinforced composites, transport systems analysis, and infrastructure maintenance monitoring. Through these studies, they explore topics such as asphalt durability, material compatibility, environmental impacts, sustainable practices, construction techniques, traffic effects, transportation designs, and infrastructure safety. This synthesis highlights the researcher's efforts to address both practical and theoretical aspects of pavement materials and their applications in diverse fields.
Department of Land Economy
The researcher explores how housing finance and development systems function across African contexts, examining financing structures, policy issues, legal constraints, systemic inefficiencies, urban opportunities, transportation improvements, work capital management, facilities design, economic factors in other regions, and sustainable practices.

Department of Chemical Engineering
This research focuses on understanding the interplay between ecosystems, human activities, and climate change by examining carbon chemistry, feedback loops in energy cycles, their role in global climate change, and developing methods for evaluating their impacts. The study also highlights adaptive strategies for mitigating negative outcomes and improving resilience in natural systems.

Department of Medical Diagnostics
This researcher investigates the role of tree growth strategies in mitigating climate change by focusing on carbon sequestration techniques. Their theoretical studies emphasize the importance of soil-less gardening for improving agricultural sustainability while their applied investigations explore the integration of genetic engineering into carbon sequestration systems across diverse ecosystems, including grasslands and forested areas. Their work highlights how bio-dynamic approaches can enhance tree carbon capture while fostering interdisciplinary collaborations to address environmental challenges in a sustainable manner.
Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
The researcher investigates how diet, health practices, and policies impact student populations in higher education institutions, examining both individual dietary choices and broader societal effects to enhance overall health among diverse demographics.