Prof. Dr. Lawrence Darkwah is the current Coordinating Dean (KNUST Obuasi Campus). He has been teaching at the Chemical Engineering Department of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology for more than eighteen years. He has supervised many PhD and MSc. theses both in the Processing, Energy and Environmental aspects of Engineering (covering Chemical, Agricultural and Biotechnology, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Disciplines). Some of these research works utilised biological systems for process development and plant designs. These projects had to assess both the technological and economic feasibility of such plants.

Lawrence has research interests in biological and pyrolytic conversion of biomass resources into energy for productive use. He has over the last ten years being teaching postgraduate students how to produce liquid biofuels from diverse feedstocks and giving global case studies for emulation in West Africa. These have been done both as a formal course that counts for some students curricula whilst for others, it has been skills development and knowledge acquisition entrepreneurship in biogas.

Prof. Darkwah researches into biological oxidation for mineral extractive purposes and designs environmental mitigation systems for field applications, based on his previous industrial practice and consultations.

Lawrence is a fellow of The Energy Center (TEC-KNUST) and a theme leader in Biogas technology in the collaboration between (TEC-KNUST) and North Rhine Westphalia (NRW) in which a biogas laboratory was setup in the Chemical Engineering Department of KNUST to advance capacity-building and training in that area.

Prof. Darkwah is a Graduate Member of the Ghana Institution of Engineers and also a member of the Ghana Science Association. He has a wide spectrum of consultancy and collaborative research experiences which impacts on policy-makers and industrial applications. His academic and consulting works are recognised in the Energy, Chemical and Minerals Engineering Sectors.