Prof. Teketel Yohannes Anshebo obtained his BSc in 1984, MSc in 1989 and PhD in 1997 from  Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Since 1984, he has been serving at higher education institutes. 

Over the years Prof, Teketel had the opportunity to advise PhD students, and MSc students and give out numerous undergraduate and postgraduate chemistry courses to his students. With his research group and collaborators, he extensively studied electrochemistry,spectroelectrochemistry, photovoltaic, and photoelectrochemistry of organic conducting polymer materials. Prof. Teketel has also published more than 80 scientific articles in highly reputable local and international peer reviewed journals.

Prof. Teketel was a Junior and Regular Associate of ICTP, Associate Fellow of TWAS, Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and Reviewer and Associate Editor of various local and international journals. He is also a Board Member of the African Materials Research Society, Founder and the mastermind behind the African Network for Solar Energy and the first Board Member of the Joint US-Africa Materials Institute. Prof. Teketel has Organized major International Conferences in Ethiopia such as the African School on Nanoscience for Solar Energy (2010), Joint US-Africa Institute’s First Materials Research School (2012), the 7th Biannual Conference of African Materials Research Society(2013), Organic Photovoltaics and Biopolymer-Based Batteries and Supercapacitors for Solar Electricity Storage (2014), Ethiopian Regional Workshop on Solar Energy and Energy Storage Technologies (2018) and 5th African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (ASESMA) (2018).

His leadership quality has shined through his service at Bahirdar Teachers College, Ethiopia, as the Chairman of the Department of Chemistry; Director, Chair and Coordinator of the Materials Science Program at College of Natural Sciences (Addis Ababa University); Associate Dean for Graduate Programs (central University position) for the College of Natural Sciences (AAU); Director for Research (central University position) at Addis Ababa University; Acting Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer (AAU), and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Addis Ababa Science and Technology University. Currently, he is an Executive Director of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences since October 2020.