Taiwo is a third-year graduate student at Baylor University and currently serves as a graduate researcher for the Sayes Group. He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (2013) and a Master of Environmental Management (2018) from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He studies the fate, transformation, and interaction of microplastics with emerging contaminants in the environment. His interests include sustainable development, human and environmental health, green energy, finance, sports, traveling, and music.

Technical specialties

·      Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

·      Raman Spectroscopy

·      Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

·      Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry

·      Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry

·      Polymer Characterization

·      Material Science

Awards

3rd best poster presentation; 5th Annual Texas Plastic Pollution Symposium, UH-Clear Lake, (2023)

Publications

Al Naggar Y*, Sayes CM, Collom C, Ayorinde T, Qi S, El-Seedi HR, Paxton RJ, Wang K. (2023). Chronic exposure to polystyrene microplastic fragments has no effect on honey bee survival but reduces feeding rate and body weight. Toxics 11:100. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics11020100

Presentations

·      Society of Toxicology (SOT) 62nd Annual Meeting “Simulation of environmental weathering of laboratory-generated microplastic particles (LG-MPP): Towards defining Reference Materials”. Poster. Nashville, Tennessee (Mar 2023)

Memberships

·      American Chemical Society