Dr. Emmanuel Akindele is an Alexander von Humboldt postdoc fellow at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB). He is working on Nigerian freshwater biodiversity and how it might be impacted under climate change, and how conservation planning could be useful to protect freshwater organisms.

Career

• since 2023 - Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the IGB
  
• 2018-2023 - Senior Lecturer, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
  
• 2015-2018 - Lecturer I, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
  
• 2014-2015 - Lecturer I, Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
  
• 2012-2014 - Bowen University, Iwo, Nigeria
  

Honours and awards

• 2021 - British Ecological Society Short Research Grant
  
• 2020 - British Ecological Society (Ecologists in Africa) Research Grant
  
• 2018 - German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Visiting Scholarship
  
• 2018 - Orange Knowledge-Netherlands Fellowship
  
• 2003 - Earthwatch Institute Fellowship
  
• 2001 - Tropical Biology Association Scholarship