Adeola Olubamiji

In 2020, Olubamiji was awarded as one of 130 STEP Ahead Honoree and female manufacturing leaders by the Manufacturing Institute, USA

In 2019, She was named one of the 10 L’Oreal Paris Women of Worth Honoree Canada

In 2019, She was named as one of 27 Influential Women in Manufacturing Honoree in USA

Adeola Deborah Olubamiji is a Nigerian-Canadian Technologist who specializes in Metal and Plastic Additive Manufacturing (also known as 3D-Printing). In 2017, she became the first black person to obtain a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the 112-year-old University of Saskatchewan, Canada. She went on to give a TEDx Talk on how she utilized 3D-printing for recovery of damaged articular ligament in Canada.

She was recognized in 2017 as 5th of the 150 black women making Canada better, commemorating the 150th celebration of Canada.

She worked as the Lead Metallurgist and Material Engineer at Burloak Technologies from 2016 to 2018. While at Burloak Technologies, she also acted as the Principal Liaison Officer for all Burloak’s and Multiscale Additive Manufacturing Lab at the University of Waterloo, Ontario Canada.

Adeola Olubamiji was born on April 3, 1985 in Nigeria, a native of Ijare area, Ondo state. She was raised in Ibadan where she attended Alafia Public Primary School and St Gabriel Secondary School, Mokola. She obtained her bachelor's degree in Physics (with Electronics) from Olabisi Onabanjo University, and later went on to obtain her master's degree at Tampere University of Technology, Finland. She received her Doctorate degree from University of Saskatchewan, becoming the first Black person to obtain a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University.