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Monsuru O. Dauda, PhD

Chemical Engineer | CO₂ Electrochemistry | Hard-Tech Scale-Up. “Every waste is a resource waiting to be unlocked.”

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Chief Technology Officer · Encore CO₂

Turning captured CO₂ into chemicals and fuels

Leading R&D for a venture-backed startup, scaling electrolyzers from a small lab cell to a 100+ cm² multi-cell system.

$900K+

in non-dilutive funding (Shell GameChanger, NSF SBIR Phase I)

Director of Engineering · Geaux Scale

Moving hard-tech from lab to pilot to production

Guiding hydrogen, clean energy, waste-to-value, advanced materials, and space tech companies across Louisiana.

20+

Louisiana hard-tech companies supported

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Electrochemistry & Catalysis

Cu-based catalysts with record-level selectivity

Up to 90% selectivity for C₁ and 75% for C₂ products, with DFT and advanced characterization revealing the mechanisms behind them.

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Award-Winning Researcher

Recognized from Nigeria to the United States

CAS Future Leaders Award (2026), ECS F. M. Becket Fellowship, and the IE&EE Student Achievement Award, with 30+ publications and 2 patents.

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Leader & Mentor

Building the next generation of engineers

Former National President of NUESA, representing 10,000+ engineering students, and President of LSU’s African Graduate Students Association.

Leadership & service

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No Magic In Success (NMIS)

Hard work, continuous learning, unwavering excellence

Building technologies that create economic value while advancing a more sustainable future.

Membership

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Learn About Me

“Every waste is a resource waiting to be unlocked.”

I am Monsuru Olatunji Dauda, PhD, Director of Engineering at Geaux Scale and Chief Technology Officer of Encore CO₂. At Geaux Scale, I guide more than 20 Louisiana hard-tech companies in hydrogen, clean energy, waste-to-value, advanced materials, and space tech from lab to pilot to production. At Encore CO₂, a venture-backed startup, I lead the development of technology that converts captured CO₂ into value-added chemicals and fuels. My career began with turning agricultural waste into adsorbents that clean water. Today I turn captured CO₂ into carbon-based chemicals, fuels, and even agricultural solutions, and I help other founders turn their own breakthroughs into products. I hold a PhD and MS in Chemical Engineering from Louisiana State University, where I designed Cu-based catalysts and electrolyzers that reached up to 90% selectivity for C₁ and 75% for C₂ products. My expertise spans electrochemical systems; electrocatalyst and catalyst design; pyrolysis and biomass conversion; adsorption and wastewater treatment; green nanoparticle synthesis; process design and scale-up; advanced materials characterization; and techno-economic and life cycle analysis. My work has produced 30+ publications and 2 patents and has earned the CAS Future Leaders Award, the ECS F. M. Becket Fellowship, and the IE&EE Student Achievement Award, among other honors. Along the way, I have led several student and professional organizations, including NUESA, representing more than 10,000 engineering students, and LSU’s African Graduate Students Association. These roles shaped my commitment to mentoring the next generation of engineers, which remains central to my work today. Whether in the lab, the boardroom, or the classroom, I am driven by one goal: building technologies that create economic value while advancing a more sustainable future.

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Experience

From academic research to startup leadership, I bring hands-on experience in electrochemical systems, catalyst design, pyrolysis and adsorption, nanoparticle synthesis, and process design and scale-up. Today, as CTO of Encore CO₂ and Director of Engineering at Geaux Scale, I turn research into technologies that create value from waste and help hard-tech companies move from lab to market.

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Leadership

I have led teams and organizations across academia, industry, and startups. I directed R&D as CTO of Encore CO₂, guide 20+ hard-tech companies at Geaux Scale, served thousands of engineering students across Nigeria as National President of NUESA, served 200+ African graduate students as AGSA President at LSU, and led a 16-member team at Addax Petroleum. In every role, I focus on building systems that empower people and drive lasting impact.

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Membership

I am an active member of leading professional and honor societies, including Sigma Xi, Omicron Delta Kappa, the Electrochemical Society (ECS), the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), and NOBCChE. Through these communities, I contribute to scientific excellence and help expand diversity and opportunity in STEM.

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Outreach

I am committed to giving back through mentorship and community engagement. From STEM outreach for high school and undergraduate students to supporting refugee and immigrant communities in Louisiana, I work to create opportunities that help others grow.

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Awards

My work has been recognized with honors including the CAS Future Leaders Award, the ECS F. M. Becket Fellowship, and the IE&EE Student Achievement Award. These awards reflect excellence in research, leadership, and service, from Nigeria to the United States.

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Conferences

My work has been recognized with honors including the CAS Future Leaders Award, the ECS F. M. Becket Fellowship, and the IE&EE Student Achievement Award. These awards reflect excellence in research, leadership, and service, from Nigeria to the United States.

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Research

My Research

My research turns waste into value. I develop electrochemical technologies that convert captured CO₂ into valuable chemicals, fuels, and agricultural feedstocks, building on earlier work using pyrolysis and bio-derived adsorbents to treat industrial wastewater. By combining catalyst design, advanced characterization, computational modeling, and process scale-up, I work to understand the fundamental mechanisms and then translate those discoveries into working, commercially viable technology. My CO₂ research laid the foundation for Encore CO₂, and through collaborations across academia and industry, I continue to build practical solutions for climate change, resource recovery, and environmental remediation.

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Peer-Reviewed Publications

230

Citations

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Conference Presentations

17

Major Awards

NEWS

Latest News and Update

Graduate student Monsuru DAUDA has been awarded the prestigious 2025 F. M. Becket Fellowship from the ECS - The Electrochemical Society.

Date: Oct 21, 2025

This competitive $5,000 summer fellowship supports promising graduate students advancing research in...

Ph.D. candidate, Monsuru DAUDA has been named the recipient of the 2025

Date: Oct 21, 2025

Ph.D. candidate, Monsuru DAUDA has been named the recipient of the 2025 Industrial Electrochemistry...

LSU ChE PhD Student’s Paper Published on CO2 Reduction

Date: Oct 15, 2024

BATON ROUGE, LA – Monsuru Dauda, a third-year Ph.D. student in the LSU Cain Department of Chemical E...

Advancing Electrification of Chemical Industries, Sustainable Energy and Chemical Production through CO2 Conversion in the US, Other Countries — Expert

Date: Jul 23, 2024

Monsuru Olatunji Dauda, a Nigerian-born doctoral candidate at Louisiana State University, has made s...

Four LAUTECH graduates get PhD scholarship in U.S.

Date: Aug 23, 2022

The students are Otusanya Gabriel Tobi, Oluwole Titilayo Deborah, Dauda, Monsuru Olatunji and Balogu...

Dauda Monsuru Olatunji: A Legacies of a Young Engineering leader, Who led through pandemic era to midwife Innovations at NUESA

Date: Jul 01, 2021

Dauda Monsuru Olatunji’s tenure as National President of the Nigerian Universities Engineering Stude...

Doing the right thing, at the right time.

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Awards

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Experience

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