Dr Saeed Ibn Idris Kofi Yeboah is a Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR), Ghana. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering Management, as well as a B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, all from UENR. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Science Education from the Catholic University of Ghana. His academic training and research expertise span environmental engineering, spatial hydrology, WASH, pathogen fate and transport modelling, climate change, and environmental risk assessment. In 2025, he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow under the ARUA–Carnegie Early Career Research Fellowship at the Institute for Water Research, Rhodes University, South Africa (https://arua.org/dr-saeed-ibn-idris-kofi-yeboah/ ). Dr Yeboah has received several competitive awards and recognitions, including World Bank ACE scholarships, international mobility grants, and recognition through the U&AI SDGs Youth Innovation Bootcamp. He has published in reputable international peer-reviewed journals and continues to contribute to interdisciplinary research in environmental sustainability and public health.
At UENR, he has contributed to a number of grant-supported research projects and has served on several strategic departmental and school-level committees. His contributions have included curriculum development for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, proposal development for the Centre for Environmental Health and Sanitation, and the organisation of seminars, workshops, and academic conferences. He has also supported student research and academic development through his former roles as Research Director and Secretary of GRASAG–UENR in 2021.
As a researcher, Dr Yeboah has been involved in both national and international projects, including the Quality Indicators of Shared Sanitation Facilities Project, the Hygiene Behaviour Change Communication End-Term Evaluation, Pathogen modeling in Sub-Saharan African river basins, and community-focused drowning-risk assessments in the Sundays River Valley, South Africa. He also contributed to the Fire Risk Projection Analysis Methodology – Pilots Project, where he supported analytical development for landfill fire-risk assessment in Ghana. Dr Yeboah has actively participated in and facilitated numerous international scientific workshops, conferences, and capacity-building programmes, including the United Nations Space for Water Conference, the UN/Ghana/PSIPW Forum on Space Technology for Water Resources Management, and the 5th ARUA Biennial International Conference held at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. In addition to his research and teaching responsibilities, he serves as a reviewer for several international journals, including Scientific African, Environmental Research: Health, Heliyon, and European Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. He possesses strong analytical, modelling, and facilitation skills, with extensive experience in both qualitative and quantitative research methods. His technical proficiency includes R, SPSS, STATA, NVivo, LISREL, @RISK, SWAT, QGIS, ArcGIS, Orange Data Mining, and Microsoft Office. He has applied these tools in hydrological and spatial modelling, hydrodynamic analysis, bacterial fate and transport modelling, quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA), environmental flow analysis, and related environmental and WASH-focused studies.