Adekunle Adeyeye
Adekunle Olusola Adeyeye is a Nigerian academic and university administrator, announced in July 2019 as Principal of Trevelyan College, Durham.Biography
Originally from Nigeria, Adeyeye received his first degree from the University of Ilorin, in Kwara State, Nigeria, before moving to the UK to study for a master's degree in microelectronics engineering at the University of Cambridge, followed by a PhD in physics at the university's Cavendish Laboratory in 1996.
In 1996, he was the first Nigerian elected as a research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, but left in 1997 to take up a 9-month post as a senior research engineer at the Data Storage Institute, a research and development organisation established by the National University of Singapore, before returning to Trinity College. In 2000, he was a founding researcher at the Information Storage Materials Laboratory at the National University of Singapore, becoming a full professor in 2012. In 2014, he became the first head of Ridge View Residential College, the University of Singapore's first residential college outside University Town.
In 2002 he was cited by Technology Review as one of their 100 innovators under 35 "whose work and ideas will change the world". He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Nanotechnology, and was an IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2013. In 2018, Adeyeye was elected to fellowship of the American Physical Society "or contributions to synthesis and characterization of magnetic nanostructures and their applications in low power magnonic information processing."
In July 2019 he was announced as Principal of Trevelyan College, Durham, and Professor of Physics at Durham University.
He is married to Adefolake and has a daughter and two sons.
