Research
My work links space physics to the technology people rely on every day. Over more than ten years I have worked with HF radar, neutron monitor, satellite and GNSS data, from the Antarctic ice at SANAE IV to receivers across equatorial Africa.
GNSS and the ionosphere
Forecasting ionospheric scintillation that degrades positioning, timing and navigation, with a focus on the data sparse equatorial sector.
Space weather
Cosmic ray ground level enhancements, solar wind coupling, and the response of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere.
Machine learning
Models for noisy geophysical time series, and the pipelines that put them into operational use.
Experience
- 2026 to presentDirector, Centre of Excellence on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Cyber SciencesFederal University Lokoja. A nationally funded centre; readiness assessment score 191 of 205.
- 2025 to presentFounder and lead developer, Afrisource data systemsPayment reconciliation, academic planning and document automation software for universities.
- 2025 to presentManaging Editor, Journal of Interdisciplinary Postgraduate ResearchLaunched the journal and automated its production; 83 articles published.
- 2023 to presentAssociate Professor of PhysicsFederal University Lokoja, Nigeria. On the staff since 2015, promoted through four ranks.
- 2023 to 2024Visiting ReaderUniversity of Calgary, Canada.
- 2016 to 2017Research FellowUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal and North-West University, South Africa.
- 2015PhD PhysicsUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal, after an MSc there (2012) and a BSc (Hons) from Kogi State University (2007).
Software
I build the tools my research and my institution need, in Python, SQL, Linux, Django and React.
Fee payment monitor
Reconciles bank statements against student records in real time using QR generated payment references. Deployed and in use.
Dossier engine
Merges, scales and serially numbers hundreds of PDFs with a generated table of contents; 1,525 pages from 161 files in under ten seconds.
Academic planning dashboard
Staff, students, calendar automation and curriculum alignment in one view for a university's planning office.
Selected publications
32 journal articles, 21 indexed in Scopus or Web of Science. Full list on ORCID.
- Strauss, R. D., Ogunjobi, O., Moraal, H., McCracken, K. G., and Caballero-Lopez, R. A. (2017). On the pulse shape of ground level enhancements. Solar Physics, 292, 51. doi
- Ogunjobi, O., Sivakumar, V., and Stephenson, J. (2015). Evidence of polar mesosphere summer echoes observed by SuperDARN SANAE HF radar in Antarctica. Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 26, 431 to 440.
- Ogunjobi, O., Sivakumar, V., and Sivla, W. T. (2014). A superposed epoch study of upper mesospheric and lower thermospheric temperature effects in response to solar wind stream interfaces. Advances in Space Research, 54, 1732 to 1742. doi
- Ogunjobi, O., Sivakumar, V., and Mbatha, N. (2014). A case study of energy deposition and absorption by magnetic cloud electrons and protons over high latitude stations. Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 25, 219 to 232.
Contact
I am open to research and data science roles in navigation, Earth observation, aerospace and geospatial technology, and to academic posts in space physics and applied machine learning.
Email: olakunleo.ukzn@gmail.com
Based in Johannesburg, South Africa. CV available on request.