Dr. Funmilola Oluwafemi is a space bio-scientist, astrobiologist and a researcher of life in the extreme environment. She has an academic background of Biochemistry. She had her Bachelor of Science Degree in Biochemistry from Bowen University; her Master of Science Degree in Membrane Biochemistry and Biotechnology from University of Ibadan; and her Doctorate Degree in Biochemistry, which focused on space research from Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria.

She joined the Nigerian Space Agency (NASRDA) as a staff January 2013 as a Scientific Officer 1. Dr. Funmilola is currently the Principal Investigator and the Leading Expert of Microgravity Research at the Space Physical and Life Sciences Department of NASRDA. She won simulated microgravity equipment called “Clinostat” from United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), Vienna, Austria in year 2015; whereby 15 Clinostats were to be distributed in a rigorous application for research and education in the world, and she won one. This made UNOOSA to have collaboration with her in research and education on their Zero-Gravity Instrument Project. UNOOSA has beaconed on her on diverse occasions to physically make presentations on some of these results in their conferences, workshops, symposia and fora that had held in the past in Paris, France; Bonn, Germany; Vienna, Austria and in Dubai, United Arabs Emirate. She had as well discussed severally some of the related results at International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Italy which was sponsored by UNESCO.

During the course of Dr. Oluwafemi’s PhD, she won 4 international scholarships. One of the scholarship is the American Zonta Amelia Earhart, Women in Aerospace Scholarship that makes her the 2nd Nigerian to win the scholarship after Dr. Wendy Okolo. The second scholarship is the African-German Network of Excellence in Science, Program Advocating Women in Science (AGNES-PAWS); the third is the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization – International Centre for Biotechnology (UNESCO-ICB) PhD Scholarship Award: The Maiden Edition. While the fourth is the Climate, Food and Farming Global-Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse-Gases Development Scholarships (CLIFF-GRADS) program on food-security which was fully funded by the government of New-Zealand to be a Visiting Research Scientist at College of Agriculture, Hawassa University, Ethiopia for 4 months.

Dr. Oluwafemi currently has a total of 71 publications in books, book chapters, journal papers and conference papers; of which 23 are Scopus indexed. She has delivered a great number of papers in many academic conferences and workshops in-person globally.

Sequel to these, in-line with her scientific research ambitions, core to her career path, with wealth of experiences, she engages in knowledge transfer.