Dr. Boadu is a Sustainable Biomaterial Scientist working with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. He is a member of the International Society for Tropical Foresters (ISTF). His objective is to contribute to the sustainable utilization of biomaterials in a manner that best supports conservation, promotes environmental justice, and fosters job creation. His expertise in sustainable biomaterial characterization, modification, and utilization, as well as Environmental justice, Business Administration (with a Focus on Human Resources Management), community engagement, Teaching and development, and project implementation will achieve this. He is passionate about nature and all things biomaterial. Innovation, passion, excellence, integrity, and transparency are the qualities he values the most. He has excellent social and experimental research skills and is good at handling budgets, research communication, and statistical and graphical data analysis. He is a Co-Investigator for the Cocoa Craft: Carbon Reducing Agroforestry Trajectories project, which is funded by Alliance of Bioversity-CIAT. He was a key team member from the Department of Wood Science and Technology, KNUST, who developed the BSc Packaging Technology Programme. He was a Supervisor for the Global Outlook on Forest Education Project (GOFE), sponsored by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), and an Assistant Field Officer at the Mensuration and Inventory Unit at RMSC of the Forestry Commission of Ghana, Kumasi. He gathered data for the FAO Forest Resources Assessment (Ghana Report) in 2010 and the Forestry Commission's Seedling Survival Assessment in Several Forest Reserves in Ghana between 2007 and 2008. He was also part of the team contracted by the International Cocoa Initiative (Switzerland) to undertake a qualitative study in cocoa communities with Child Labour Monitoring and remediation systems (CLMRS) in Ghana to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of appointing local community members as CLMRS monitoring agents. Dr. Boadu has been trained on bamboo conservation and carbon assessment by the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan. Having worked with the Forestry Commission of Ghana, he has established local and international links and contacts to ensure the smooth execution of forest-wood-biodiversity-related projects.

He has conducted extensive research on various aspects of wood as the most significant forest biomaterial on earth and has several publications to his credit.

He is a reviewer for internationally renowned journals, including Advances in Bamboo Science; Journal of Sustainable Forestry; International Journal of Forestry and Wood Science; Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery; Journal of Cleaner Production; Maderas Ciencia y Tecnología; Scientific Reports; ACS Omega; BioResources; Circular Economy & Sustainability; Case Studies in Construction Materials; Scientific African; Social Sciences & Humanities Open; Asian Journal of Agriculture; IIMBG Journal of Sustainable Business and Innovation.