Dr. Emmanuel Akindele

Alexander von Humboldt postdoc fellow

Portrait of Dr. Emmanuel Akindele

Alexander von Humboldt postdoc fellow

Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries

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Interests

Systematics and biogeography Conservation biology Global change biology

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology (Limnology), 2008-2012
    Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
  • Master of Science in Zoology (Hydrobiology), 2004-2006
    Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
  • Bachelor of Science in Zoology, 1997-2001
    University of Ibadan, Nigeria
  • Certificate in Tropical Ecology and Conservation, 2001
    Makerere University Biological Field Station, Uganda

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

Projects

Publications (2)

A spatial inventory of freshwater macroinvertebrate occurrences in the Guineo-Congolian biodiversity hotspot (2025) · Scientific Data, 12, 227

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The Global EPTO Database: worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects (2023) · Global Ecology and Biogeography

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