Dr. Opoku is a holder of PhD in Mathematics from University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His masters and bachelor degrees were respectively obtained from University of Kaiserslautern, Germany and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. From 2010 to 2013, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Leiden and Delft University of Technology. He joined University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) in 2014 as a Lecturer and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2017. At UENR, he has served and continue to serve as Head of Department, Acting Director of Quality Assurance and Academic Planning Directorate, Chairman and Member of Committees and Boards. Random Polymer Models, Interacting Particle Systems, Spin Models and their Application to Discrete Choice Theory, Machine Learning, and Energy Economics are among his research interests.