Onyeka Francis Offor

Bio: Onyeka Francis Offor was born in Nigeria where he obtained his bachelor's degree in pure chemistry at University of Port Harcourt (Uniport) Nigeria. After his graduation, he worked as a graduate assistant in the department of chemistry, Akwa State University, Nigeria. Thereafter he was awarded a fully funded scholarship for a master’s degree in organic chemistry by the petroleum development technology fund (PTDF) at Uniport. His master’s thesis at Uniport was on synthesis and modification of alkyd resin from velvet tamarind which also involved IR, GC-MS, and NMR characterization of the synthesized product. In 2022, following his completion of the master’s program at Uniport, he was awarded a fully funded Erasmus Mundus Scholarship and proceeded to study in Europe for a dual master’s degree in Analytical Chemistry at University of Tartu, Estonia and Uppsala University, Sweden. During his second master’s degree in Europe, he worked as a summer intern with Recipharm, Sweden where he developed LC-MS method for analysis of lipid (lipidomic). In June 2024, he completed his dual master’s degrees in Analytical chemistry with a master’s thesis focus on MALDI mass spectrometry analysis of acetyl-CoA and other CoA’s relevant to humans (metabolomics). Francis is passionate about the omics research which has led to his involvement in the PhD research on proteomics.

Project: Microfluidics cell separation and MS integration

Supervisor: Dr. Anjali Seth