Dr. Opoku Francis received his BSc and MPhil degrees from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in 2010 and 2014, respectively. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Johannesburg (UJ) in 2019. Subsequently, he was a Global Excellence Stature 4.0 Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Johannesburg, designing the adsorption of small molecules incorporating density functional theory simulations. In 2020, he joined the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Physical and Computational Sciences, KNUST, as a lecturer.

His work relates to inorganic and computational chemistry, working in the areas of energy, water, materials science, and dreaded diseases. He has published more than 90 publications appearing in high-impact peer-reviewed journals like the New Journal of Chemistry, Scientific Reports, Journal of Cleaner Production, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Chemical Engineering Journal, and ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, to name but a few. The high quality of his research papers is evidenced by the high number of scholar google citations he has received from other researchers (total citation = 3031; h-index = 28; i10-index = 58). He has also written a book entitled Molecular Modelling of Vitamin B₁₂ and its Analogues, 4 book chapters, and successfully supervised 2 PhD, 1 MPhil, 2 MSc, and 24 BSc theses. 

He ensures he contributes to the scientific community by serving as a reviewer for many journals, such as the New Journal of Chemistry and Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (which is published under the Royal Society of Chemistry), the International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry (published by Taylor & Francis Ltd), ACS Applied Nano Materials, Chemistry of Materials, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, ACS Applied Energy Materials, and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (published by the American Chemical Society).

He is working on collaborative projects with the Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Johannesburg (Dr. Tunde Lewis Yusuf); Institute for Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability, College of Science, Engineering and Technology, University of South Africa (Dr. Potlako John Mafa); University of Electronic Science and Technology, China (Prof Hassan Karimi-Maleh) and a German collaborator from Technische Universität Berlin (Dr Mirabbos Hojamberdiev).