Dr. Jemima O. Adepehin lectures in the Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of Calabar, Nigeria. She is an alumnus of the Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria where she obtained her bachelor, master’s, and doctoral degrees. She is a trained food scientist with specialization food microbiology, food safety, food biotechnology, and product development. Before joining the University of Calabar, Dr Adepehin worked as a program officer with two non-profit organisations (the Centre for Women and Children Development and Upline Resources Foundation. She has worked as a visiting research scholar with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Nairobi Kenya and the Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California Davis, United States of America. Jemima’s research adopts an interdisciplinary approach to develop new food products and improve the nutritional quality of existing ones with the intent of using them as vehicles to combat food insecurity and public health hazards. Of keen interest to her research is the promotion of underused species. She is a 2012 fellow of the prestigious African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD). Her research has also benefited from the USAID-funded Norman Borlaug Leadership Enhancement in Agricultural Program in 2014. Her research outputs have been presented at international conferences and published in peer-review journals with high-impact factors.