About Prof. Uduak Onofiok Luke

Associate Professor Uduak Onofiok Luke is a biochemist, environmental scientist, and sustainability advocate whose career has been defined by a single, abiding conviction: that science must serve people, and that the people most affected by environmental degradation must have a voice, and a seat at the table where solutions are designed. 

Born in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, and now a leading academic at the University of Uyo, Associate Prof. Luke has spent over thirteen years building a body of work that spans environmental toxicology, phytochemistry, renewable energy, and the biochemical consequences of industrial pollution on human health. Her laboratory research is grounded in the realities of communities living alongside oil infrastructure, industrial pollutants, and the widening consequences of climate change communities whose stories rarely reach the rooms where global sustainability policy is written.

A postdoctoral researcher in Environmental Sustainability from the University of Surrey and holder of an MSc in Renewable Energy, Prof. Luke occupies a rare position: a rigorous scientist who is equally fluent in the language of policy, advocacy, and leadership. As a Fellow of the Institute for Sustainability (UK) and a member of the Organisation for Women in Science for the Developing World, she is actively shaping the agenda on women’s inclusion in environmental decision-making not as a side issue, but as a structural imperative for achieving net zero in both emerging and developed economies. 

With over thirty peer-reviewed publications, international conference presentations spanning Philadelphia to London, and affiliations that bridge Nigerian academia and British sustainability institutions, Associate Prof. Luke stands at a distinctive intersection: African female leadership, cutting-edge science, and global environmental advocacy. She is not only studying the future of our planet, she is helping to build it and facilitating shared prosperity.