Professor Ibiyemi Ibilola Olatunji-Bello was born in Lagos on April 23, several years ago. She had her primary education at Anglican Girls Primary School, Surulere, from 1970 to 1974 and her secondary education at Lagos Anglican Girls Grammar School, Surulere, between 1974 and 1979. Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello then proceeded to Methodist Girls High School, Yaba, and Lagos State College of Science and Technology, Ikosi Campus where she did her “A” level in 1982. For her university education, she attended the University of Ibadan from 1982 to 1985 where she bagged a BSc (Hons) in Physiology. In 1987, at the University of Lagos, she was awarded MSc (Physiology). In 1998, she was awarded a PhD in Physiology, also at the University of Lagos after attending a 6-month research training in the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in the US in 1994.

Academic positions:

September 1986 – August 1988: Part time Demonstrator in Physiology

1st September 1988 - 31st September 1991: Assistant Lecturer in Physiology

1st October 1991 - 31st September 1996: Lecturer II in Physiology

1st October 1996 – 31st September 1999: Lecturer I in Physiology

1st October, 1999 – 31st September, 2005: Senior Lecturer in Physiology

1st October 2005 – 1st October 2007: Associate Professor of Physiology

2nd October 2007 - date:Professor of Physiology, LASU.

September 2021 - Vice Chancellor