Dr. Toyin Olabisi Odutola is an Associate Professor at the Department of Petroleum and Gas Engineering and the Assistant Director at Emerald Energy Institute, University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT). She holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, a master's degree in petroleum engineering from the African University of Science and Technology (AUST) and a doctorate in petroleum engineering from UNIPORT. She is trained in Flow Assurance at the Center for Hydrate Research at the Colorado School of Mines, USA. She designed and fabricated Nigeria's first hydrate flow loop, and her work was featured by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 2022. She has three patents, a published monograph and several peer-reviewed papers in reputable journals. She was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, in 2020. She is a fellow of the MIT Empowering the Teachers Programme (MIT-ETT), USA and a fellow of the Nigeria Science Leadership Programme (N-SLP). Dr Odutola is a registered engineer with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), she is a corporate member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) and Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers (NSChe). Dr Odutola has received several awards, the most recent of which is the 2024 SPE Africa Regional Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty Award.