Dr. Christina Timi Igono.

Dr. Christina Timi Igono is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Eight Orbit Urban Farms (EOUF) LLC. Dr. Igono founded EOUF in 2021 — conceiving the idea in 2020 — while working concurrently on her Ph.D. at the University of Nevada Reno and working as the Chief Science Officer for Advanced Carbonate Technologies LLC. The inspiration for EOUF came to her while working on a greenhouse rice study, where she tested the effects of calcium oxide ore on rice growth, soil fertility, soil biochemistry, and soil microbiology in a controlled environment. The research project was a tremendous success.

Dr. Igono was born in Lagos, Nigeria. In 2006, she was offered an athletic scholarship at Alabama A&M University where she played Division I and II college soccer for four years. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences in 2010. She started her graduate studies in 2011 and earned her master's degree in Plant and Soil Science in 2014. Dr. Igono is an award-winning research scientist with almost two decades of research experience in soil biogeochemistry, soil microbiology, soil fertility, soil greenhouse gas fluxes, and agricultural and environmental sustainability.

Her experience in agricultural, soil, and environmental research granted her opportunities to work in different ecosystems — including greenhouses, silvopasture systems, grasslands, humid farmlands, pasturelands, semi-arid rangelands, and semi-arid agricultural rice farmlands — across northern and southern Alabama, northern Nevada, and California. Her research studies encompass soil physical and chemical properties, soil microbial organisms, crop and plant growth, soil greenhouse gas emissions, and their interactions.