CSIR-IIR - Key Persons

K. Ampomah-Benefo, M. A. B. Animpong, G. Boafo-Mensah, W. O. Oduro, E. N. Kotey and H. A. Obiri (2013), Achieving sustainable consumption of electricity through energy audit: A case study of a public sector institution in Ghana, International Journal of Development and Sustainability, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 1487-1498. Kofi Ampomah-Benefo is Physicist with special research interest in Renewable Energy (Energy Efficiency Option). He holds M.Phil degree in Physics (solar energy) and currently holds a PhD in Physics from University of Ghana. His research interest is in the area of waste to energy technologies through anaerobic digestion, energy efficiency through sustainable energy use, improve cook stoves, energy audits and profiling.

DR. MAAME ADWOA B.

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HEAD, Materials and Manufacturing Division ( MMD )

DR. MARGARET MARY NIMOH

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HEAD, Sanitation and Environmental Management Division ( SEMD )

DR. MUTALA MOHAMMED

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HEAD, Sustainable Energy Technology Division ( SETD )

Dr. Richard Bayitse

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Senior Research Scientist, Head, Industrial Processes and Research Division / EDUCATION INSTITUTION

DR. SAMUEL ATUAHENE

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HEAD, Emerging Engineering Technologies Division ( EETD )

Dr. Trinity Ama Tagbor

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Senior Research Scientist ( Head of MMD )

DR. WILLIAM OWUSU ODURO

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DEPUTY DIRECTOR
Senior Research Scientist

Dr. William Owusu Oduro was born in Koforidua but hails from Akyem Tafo in the Eastern Region of Ghana. He had his primary school education at Bubiashie in Accra before proceeding to Accra Academy where he obtained both GCE Ordinary Level and Advance Level Certificates. He undertook a one year National Service at the Roman Catholic Junior Secondary School in the Twifo Praso District between 1991 and 1992 teaching General Science and Vocational Skills. In 1993 he was admitted into the University of Cape Coast and graduated with a Bachelor of Science, Second Class Upper Division in Chemistry and a Diploma in Education in 1998. After his Undergraduate studies he again did a one year National Service at the St. Roses Secondary School at Akwatia in the Kwaebibrim District of the Eastern Region teaching Chemistry and Physics from 1998 to 1999. He has since 2000 been with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Institute of Industrial Research (CSIR-IIR) where he has worked in various capacities as a Principal Technical Officer (January to May 2000), Assistant Research Scientist (May 2000 to April 2004), Research Scientist (April 2004 to July 2013) and Senior Research Scientist (July 2013 to date). He is an Alumnus of the University of Oxford Linacre College and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He has about 33 publications including a Patent on methanol production process, 14 refereed journal papers, two chapters in books and a number of conference publications. In 2012 he was awarded the Best Inventor in a competition organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) in conjunction with the Registrar Generals Department, Ghana. He is a Christian, married with five children and a lay preacher.

EKUA AFRAKOMA ARMOO

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HEAD, Projects and Resource Mobilization Office

EMMANUEL LAMPTEY

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TECHNICAL OFFICER

ENOCH NYARKO

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ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

EUROPA CAT VIII

EUROPA CAT VIII. International Conference on Catalysis. (26th-31stAug. 2007). Finland

FRED AYEBI

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HEAD, ACCOUNTS / FINANCE

HAKEEM ADJEI

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TECHNICAL OFFICER

ISHMAEL AGGREY

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PRINCIPAL
Senior Staff Member
TECHNICAL OFFICER

ISMAIL ABDULAI

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PRINCIPAL
TECHNICAL OFFICER

JOSHUA TEIWAYO

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TECHNICAL OFFICER

LYDIA ADAMS

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CHIEF ADMIN. ASSISTANT

LYDIA ANNANG

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ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT
CHIEF

MAUD SHIRLEY DARKO

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Senior Staff Member
TECHNICAL OFFICER

MAXWELL KOFI OFORI-AMOAH

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Senior Staff Member
TECHNICAL OFFICER

Mr. Kisiedu Akufo-Kumi

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Principal Research Scientist ( Consultant )

I am 61 years old Ghanaian. I was born on the 4th of August, 1959. I am a native of…

Mrs. Gloria Boafo-Mensah

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RESEARCH SCIENTIST
HEAD, Metrology Division

Mrs. Patience Agbedor

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Research Scientist
Research Scientist ( Head of BISD )

Patience Mamle Agbedor is a Research Scientist working with the Business and Information Services Department of the CSIR - Institute of Industrial Research. She is interested in conduction Surveys, Data Analysis, Database Management and feasibility studies. She has been working with Energy Technologies Department of Institute especially in several research works in renewable energy.