DR. HARRY OKYERE
DR. HARRY OKYERE
Phone number: +233 (0) 24 425 4741
Email: toro192001@yahoo.com
Nationality: Ghanaian
Station: Fumesua
Qualification: MSc. Analytical Chemistry; PhD. Environmental Chemistry
Current Grade: Senior Research Scientist
Research Interest:
Environmental monitoring, assessment, and toxicology with a focus on water quality, food chemistry and food quality, food additives and contaminants, heavy metal toxicology in various environmental matrices and persistent organic pollutants in various matrices.
Recycling and value addition of agro-industrial waste into animal feed products and useful materials.
Research Experience (Projects/ Number of Publications/ Peer review publication):
A winner of a West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme grant of thirty thousand United State dollars ($ 30,000). This fund was used to research into recycling and value addition of cassava waste to animal feed.
Currently researching into ‘’ Tailwater harvesting in rice production under the Alternate wetting and drying technology.’’ A collaborative research program with CGIAR and IWMI.
I have 13 publications.
Brief Bio:
Dr. Harry Okyere is a Senior Research Scientist and an Environmental/Analytical Chemist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) – Crops Research Institute (CRI). He earned his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in 2002, followed by an M.Sc. in Analytical Chemistry in 2010 and a Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry in 2020, both from KNUST.
He is a member of the Ghana Science Association and the Ghana Chemical Society and currently serves as the Welfare Chairman of the CSIR-CRI branch of the Research Staff Association (RSA). His research focuses on harvesting tailwater for crop production in rice farming and investigating heavy metal toxicology in various environmental matrices. His studies include contamination in ‘fufu’ pounding machines and farms near mining (galamsey) sites. Driven by a commitment to food safety, Dr. Okyere aims to support farmers in cultivating contaminant-free crop varieties that are safe for consumption and industrial use.
