
Education
PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Subjects
Plant Biology, Leaf Evolution and Development, Molecular Biology and Microscopy, Machine Learning, Biodiversity
Achievements
Sterling Prize Fellow at Yale EEB (awarded to the department's top PhD candidate); Donald R. Kaplan Dissertation Award in Comparative Morphology (USD 10,000); over USD 35,000 in competitive research grants; 8 peer-reviewed papers; oral presentations at 8+ international conferences including Botany 2023 and 2025; TWAS-CSIR Graduate Research Fellow at the National Botanical Research Institute, India; MS in Evolutionary Biology from Yale
About
Oluwatobi is a PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, where his research combines classical plant biology with molecular, imaging, computational, and machine learning approaches to understand leaf evolution and development across global climate gradients. With a decade of teaching experience across three continents, he is passionate about empowering young scientists through impactful research projects.
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