Oluwatosin graduated from Pan African University Institute for Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation, Kenya with an MSc in Mathematics (Finance Option) in 2018 having previously obtained a Master’s degree in Mathematical Sciences and Mathematics at African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) South Africa and University of Ilorin, Nigeria respectively. His Master’s dissertation was on orthogonal collocation technique for numerical solutions of integral equations. He is also interested in option pricing and recently carried out a research on pricing of Barrier Options. Outside of Maths, Oluwatosin enjoys playing table tennis and football.

Research project title:
Impact of climate change on cocoa farming

Supervisor(s):
Chris Budd, Ben Adams

Project description:
Cocoa is a delicate and sensitive crop whose production has been hugely affected by several different factors including climate change. These lead to uncertainties in planning for the future both in the short term (seeding and harvesting) and in the long term (allocation of land use). The planning process can be helped by the construction of an appropriate mathematical model and linking these to data on climate variation. Tosin’s project involves constructing such models and comparing them with data on both cocoa production and local climate variation. This model will be used to track the impact of time lags between the flowering and harvesting stage of the cocoa crop and further used to establish how cocoa trees will behave in the near future as atmospheric temperatures continue to rise due to climate change.