Hammed Adeniyi Lawal,
Contact Person : AFIT
Email: h.lawal@afit.edu.ng | haderesearch@gmail.com | lawalh@cput.ac.za
Hammed Adeniyi Lawal, PhD - AFIT Team Lead/ Partner Coordinator PAP2SN
Hammed Adeniyi Lawal, PhD, serves as the AFIT Team Lead / and Partner Coordinator for the European Commission Pan-African Network for Planetary Science and Technology project. He is an Associate Professor / Reader in Space Physics and Solar-Terrestrial Physics at the Air Force Institute of Technology, and an Adjunct Professor at the Africa Space Innovation Centre and the French South African Institute of Technology, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa. Hammed earned his PhD in Physics (Space Physics and Solar-Terrestrial Physics) from the prestigious University of Leicester, United Kingdom. His research focuses on Space Physics, Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Space Weather, Atmospheric and Ionospheric Physics, Heliospheric studies, Radio Propagation Physics, and STEM education.
Hammed teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in General and Applied Physics at the Air Force Institute of Technology. His teaching areas include Space Physics, Solar and Atmospheric Physics, Ionospheric Physics and Radio Propagation, Stellar Structures and Galaxies, Programming in Physics (Python), Heliospheric Physics, and Computational Fluid Dynamics.
He has served as the Dean of the Faculty of Science and as Head of the Department of Physics. Hammed has received several grants including travel grants from the US National Science Foundation and participated in numerous international scientific events, including the IHY Summer School (2007, Nigeria), IHY-Africa/SCINDA Workshop (2009, Zambia), Center for Integrated Space Weather Modelling Summer School (2012, Colorado, USA), NASA Heliophysics Summer School (2014, Colorado, USA), Joint Eiscat/NSF Incoherent Scatter Radar Summer School (2016, Finland), SuperDARN Workshop (2016, Alaska, USA), COSPAR Assembly (2018, Pasadena, USA), EU FAST4Future project meeting as partner (2023, Hermanus, South Africa), and the Beacon Satellites Workshop (2025, Italy) among others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (UK) and a member of the European Astronomical Society, American Geophysical Union, European Geoscience Union, and other professional organizations.