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Rufus Sha’Ato is a Professor of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry at the Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University (formerly Federal University of Agriculture), Makurdi, Benue State in Central Nigeria. A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria (FICCON) and that of the Chemical Society of Nigeria (FCSN), his research traverses environmental chemistry, analytical chemistry, waste management and general environmental management and sustainability. In the main he has focused on the physical chemistry of the fate (transformation, adsorption) and transport of chemical pollutants in soil-water systems. Trained at the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria (B.Sc. Hons), in North West Nigeria and the University of Ibadan (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) in South Western Nigeria, Dr. Sha’Ato has also worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada under the auspices of a CIDA-sponsored project that established the Center for Agrochemical Technology (CAT; renamed Center for Agrochemical Technology and Environmental Research) at his University; he collaborates at the Centre as Lead Researcher in the search for phyto-pesticides and other “green”/environmentally friendly agrochemical technologies. In pursuit of the latter, he is currently heading a team (of Faculty and postgraduate students) that is working on novel slow-release and combination pesticide/fertilizer formulations (including the use of nanomaterials), amongst other pesticide-related investigations. To date, in his career, he has supervised 23 Ph.D and 34 M.Sc students successfully, publishing about one hundred & twenty-five (125) peer-reviewed journal articles in national and international Journals and has given over 25 Conference platform/poster presentations in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, USA, the Netherlands, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Rwanda and Tanzania. He has also made virtual presentations at the 1st Commonwealth Chemistry Congress in Trinidad & Tobago and the 51st IUPAC General Assembly and 48th World Chemistry Congress held in collaboration with 104th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CCCE) in Montreal.
Dr. Sha’Ato has served as consultant on DFID and World Bank Projects in his country in the areas of solid waste management (SWM) and general environmental management, sustainable development as well as water use. He is an active executive member of the Chemical Society of Nigeria (CSN) and Nigeria Coordinator, African Network for the Chemical Analysis of Pesticides and other Chemical Pollutants (ANCAP). Currently, he is serving as Dean, Postgraduate School (since 2018), and Deputy Centre Leader (since 2021), at the World Bank SPESSE Centre for Innovation in Procurement, Environmental and Social Standards (CIPESS), domiciled in his university.
His current and planned Projects include:
1. Development of homestead low-tech domestic waste water treatment system, to encourage water re-use as an avenue for more efficient water utilisation at the family and community level.
2. Development of adsorbents (activated carbon and its composites with clay minerals) from organic cocktail components of municipal solid waste for various applications.
3. Development of a kinetic-spectrophotometric method for the analysis of organophosphorothioate pesticides.
4. Synthesis of a functionalized DDT-analogue, envisaged to retain the insecticidal efficacy of DDT but without its environmental persistence.
5. Optimization of a developed simple, user-friendly field kit for testing iodine in table salt.
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Journal of geoscience and environment protectionno. 07 (2023): 213-226
International journal of scientific research updatesno. 1 (2023): 093-106
International Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Processesno. 1 (2023): 1-10
Journal of geoscience and environment protectionno. 08 (2023): 49-64
International Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Processesno. 1 (2023): 72-78
Journal of Chemical Society of Nigeriano. 6 (2023)
Chemistry of the Total Environmentpp.1-9, (2022)
Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Nigeriano. 3 (2021)
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#Papers: 97
#Citation: 913
H-Index: 21
G-Index: 28
Sociability: 5
Diversity: 3
Activity: 30
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