Mr. Matthew Afolabi Postgraduate research student
BSc, MSc
He is a physical geographer with specific interest in landform and landscape processes in the coastal zones and within the tropical landscape.
Matthew achieved a Bachelor of Science degree in Geography in 2012 while also completing his Master’s Degree in Geography in 2 2017. Both degrees were obtained at the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife Nigeria. His Master’s thesis titled ‘Morphology and spatial distribution of inselbergs in a part of the Osun Drainage Basin Southwestern Nigeria’ was an attempt to assess the relationship between tropical geomorphic processes and underlying geology in evolution of residual landforms on a part of the Western Nigeria Basement Complex. His present interest is on ‘Morphodynamic processes and evolution of the Niger Delta shoreline’. Matthew was Graduate Assistant in physical geography (2014 –2017) and later Assistant Lecturer (2017 – 2019) in the Department of Geography, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.