Simeon Akindele Abolade is a PhD student at the Atlantic Technological University (ATU) in Sligo, Ireland, and a member of the Mathematical Modelling and Intelligent Systems for Health and Environment (MISHE) research group. He holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Physics from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria, and MSc in theoretical physics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is currently on his PhD programme at ATU, Sligo, under the supervision of Dr Akinlolu Akande, Prof. Stefano Sanvito and Dr Fedwa El-Melouhi. His research interests include modeling novel materials for photovoltaics, photocatalytic, and thermoelectric applications using state-of-the-art computational tools based on Density Functional Theory and Machine Learning.