Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience |  University of Cape Coast

Ayeta Emuobonuvie Grace is a Nigerian. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Medical Biochemistry from Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State, Nigeria in 2012 and a Master’s degree in Biochemistry (Nutritional and Industrial Biochemistry), from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria in 2017. During her undergraduate studies, she emerged as the best graduating student at both faculty and departmental levels. She also received the Vice Chancellor's yearly scholarship award for the Best Student in the faculty from 2009 to 2012 and the Delta State Government’s Tertiary Institutions’ yearly Scholarship Award for Excellence from 2010 to 2012.

Her research interest is in Disease Prevention and Treatment as well as Environmental Sustainability and Food Security. These interests were ignited by her childhood experience of growing up to see the untold sufferings of people situated in an oil-rich community, which was constantly bedevilled by severe environmental pollution and by effect, food, health and economic challenges, and yet lacking access to quality healthcare. Considering the nexus between health, food security, and environmental sustainability especially in developing nations, she discovered from personal research that increasing environmental sustainability and food security would be a major step in solving Africa’s health challenges. For her M.Sc. research, she investigated the effects of bioregulators on tomatoes grown under salinity stress.

She worked as a Biology Teacher in Dietams International Schools, Port Harcourt, Nigeria from 2017 to 2020.

Presently, she is a PhD student studying Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) at the Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR), University of Cape Coast, Ghana. She is passionate about acquiring more skills needed to mitigate the problem of environmental pollution especially those that negatively affect health and food security in Africa and thereafter, train the next generation of scientists on Integrated Coastal Zone Management.

She believes that African society can be positively impacted through innovative research, education, and value reorientation.