Omowunmi Sadik

**Omowunmi "Wunmi" A. Sadik** (born 19 June 1964) na Nigerian-American professor, chemist, and inventor wey dey work for New Jersey Institute of Technology. She don develop microelectrode biosensors wey fit detect drugs and explosives, and she dey work on technologies wey go help recycle metal ions from waste for environmental and industrial use. For 2012, Sadik co-found one non-profit wey dem call Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization.

## Early life and education
Sadik born for 1964 inside Lagos, Nigeria. Her family get plenty scientists wey support her interest for physics, chemistry and biology. She collect her bachelor’s degree for chemistry from University of Lagos for 1985, and later she bag master’s degree for chemistry for 1987. After that, Sadik attend Wollongong University for Australia. By 1994, she don collect her Ph.D. degree for chemistry from Wollongong.

## Career
A postdoctoral fellowship from the National Research Council support Sadik as researcher for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1994 to 1996. After that, she accept position as assistant professor of chemistry for Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York. By 2002, she don get promotion to associate professor, and by 2005 she become full professor. Na that same time she also become director for Center for Advanced Sensors & Environmental Systems (CASE) for Binghamton. For 2019, Dr. Sadik move go New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), as chair for Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences and director for NJIT BioSensors Materials for Advanced Research & Technology (The BioSMART Center). She don also serve as visiting faculty member for Naval Research Laboratory, Cornell University, and Harvard University. For 2024, dem appoint am as the first Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs for NJIT.

Sadik dey study surface chemistry, and she dey put plenty focus for how to take build biosensors wey fit work well for environmental chemistry. She don discover say conducting polymers get better promise for sensing applications. She don create microelectrode biosensors wey fit detect small small organic materials, technology wey dem fit use for drug and bomb detection. She still dey research how to detoxify wastes like organochlorine compounds wey dey environment, so that she fit develop technology wey go help recycle metal ions from industrial and environmental waste. For one project, microbial enzymes increase the conversion of highly toxic chromium (VI) to non-toxic chromium (III) from 40% reach 98%. Sadik get more than 135 peer-reviewed research papers and patent applications. She hold U.S. patents for some special types of biosensors. For 2011, she be chairperson for the first Gordon Conference on Environmental Nanotechnology. For 2012, Sadik and Barbara Karn join hand found the Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization, wey be non-profit, international professional society wey dey promote responsible use of nanotechnology worldwide.

Sadik na elected fellow for Royal Society of Chemistry (2010), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2012), American Chemical Society (2023), and National Academy of Inventors (2024). She dey work with Environmental Protection Agency and National Science Foundation, and she bin dey part of National Institutes of Health Study Panel on Instrumentation and Systems Development. She still dey do international collaborations with UNESCO International Center of Biodynamics for Bucharest, Romania, Ege University for Turkey, and University of Fukui for Japan.

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