i.            Relevant Employment Experience

1996 – Date       Lecturer – Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

1992                 Research Fellow – Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, Kumasi, Ghana

1988 – 1991      Research Assistant – International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria

ii.            Academic Ranks

2011 – Date      Professor – Department of Food Science and Technology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and  Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

2006 – 2011      Associate Professor – Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology/Food Science and Technology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

2000 – 2006      Senior lecturer – Department of Biochemistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

1996 – 2000      Lecturer – Department of Biochemistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

iii.            Additional Professional Qualifications

1. Executive Programme in Entrepreneurial University Transformation at Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands. September 26 – 30, 2016
2. Certificate on Women’s Leadership and Management course by African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), Nairobi, Kenya. August 19-25, 2012
3. Certificate on Business Skills and leadership Training – Seeding Labs, USA. 2011
4. Certificate on Management Development – AAU Management Development Workshop (MADEV) University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana. May 24-June 4, 2010
5. Certificate on Strategies for Planning, Management and Communicating Research: Strategies for Planning, Managing and Communicating Food and Nutrition Research Workshop. Department of Nutrition and Food Science – University of Ghana Legon, Accra. June 11-15, 2007

iv.            Students Project Supervision

Research output is essential to knowledge construction with the ultimate impact of ensuring societal change or development. Since 1996, I have supervised and guided 160 students at the undergraduate level in B.Sc. Biochemistry and Food Science & Technology as well as 65 postgraduate research projects at the MSc / MPhil level in Food Science & Technology and Nutrition & Dietetics; co-supervised 15 PhD students in Food Science & Technology, KNUST. These have resulted in the production of thesis reports/dissertations, manuals, conference articles and journal articles.

v.            Membership of Professional Bodies

1. Current
   1. Fellow, Organization for Women in Science for the Developing world (OWSD); 2018 - Date
   2. Fellow, African Scientific Institute (ASI); 2015 – Date
   3. Member, Ghana Science Association (GSA); 1996 – Date
   4. Member, International Leadership Foundation; 2007 – Date
   5. Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in Ghana (WiSTEM_GH)
2. Past
   1. Member, Ghana Chemical Society (GCS); 1996 – 2010
   2. Member, Ghana Institute of Horticulturists (GhIH); 2005 – 2010
   3. Member, Ghana Nutrition Association (GNA); 2008 – 2014
   4. Member, Institute of Food Technology (IFT); 2010 – 2015
   5. Member, International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists (INWES); 2002 – 2005
   6. Member, International Society of Tropical Root Crops – Africa Branch (ISTRC-AB); 2010 – 2015
   7. Member, International Society of Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC); 2009 – 2015