Shittu Babatunde Akinpelu is a Ph.D. student at Atlantic Technological University (ATU) in Ireland. He completed his bachelor’s degree in physics at the Federal University of Technology (FUTA), Akure, Nigeria. While pursuing his master’s degree in condensed matter physics in 2021, Babatunde gained valuable research experience as a voluntary research assistant at FUTA. In 2022, Babatunde joined the Modelling and Computation for Health and Society (MOCHAS) cohort at ATU, Ireland for his Ph.D under the supervision of Dr Akinlolu Akande, Dr John Healy and Dr Syam Kumar. His current research focuses on material modeling using machine learning and soft computing, with a particular interest in discovering novel materials with unique properties that could be applied in the fields of energy and health.