Dr Ovokeroye Abafe
Lecturer in Environmental Sciences

Research Interests

 My research interests are focused on:

• Identification of emerging and legacy contaminants such as halogenated and organophosphate chemicals, PFAS, additive chemicals in micro and nanoplastics, pharmaceuticals, veterinary drugs etc. in indoor and outdoor environmental matrices, food and feed, food contact materials, consumer products and human biological tissues, using chromatography with non-targeted and target mass spectrometry. 
• Human exposure and risk assessment of emerging and legacy chemical contaminants and pollutants using next generation 3-dimensional (3D) human organ equivalent models and organ-on-chip techniques as sustainable alternatives to animal and/or human tissues.
• Human Biomonitoring of persistent organic pollutants and emerging environmental contaminants.