Dr Sunday Popoola
Senior Lecturer - Imperial College London
Dr Popo-Ola joined the research team at Imperial College London in 1991 to work on an industrial sponsored research project entitled “Steel Intensive Re-Cladding” the subject to which he later achieved his PhD in 1995.
Sunday now specialises in cold-formed steel, modular construction and over-cladding of building and affordable housing, on which he has co-authored over 140 reports and papers and 5 technical books. He has worked with other authors in the last 20 years to develop the appropriate guidelines on the use of Cold-Formed Steel in the Light Steel Framing and Modular Construction Systems.
Dr Sunday Popo-Ola is currently a Research and Teaching Fellow at Imperial College London and his work reflects the level of multidisciplinary expertise that he has obtained. His work cuts across three sub-sections within the department namely Concrete Structures, Steel Structures, Environmental and the computing part of the Systems and Mechanics. He takes responsibility for technical and strategic decisions on many research projects as and when appropriate, as on the £3.5M Brite-EuRam-sponsored, FutureHome consortium project, which was managed by Imperial College. This FutureHome project looks into the development of housing for Europe in the Next Century, with the goal of affordable, high-quality homes for all. Sunday was a President of the Engineering Forum of Nigerians in the UK for 4 years between 2011 and 2015 and members of many Engineering Professional Organisation such as Nigeria Society of Engineers and COREN.
