Gbemi is a thought leader in decision making around interventions for sustainable innovation competitiveness. She has more than 10 years' experience as a consultant, lecturer and researcher in the fields of sustainable innovation development and assessment, energy efficiency, decarbonisation, sustainability, process design and integration and development of digital tools for a sustainable transition. As a consultant she helps organisations establish business cases for investing in sustainable solutions.

She has been a co-founder for two start-ups related to sustainable cooling, and software development for sustainable manufacturing. She is an associated director at the Sargent Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Programme director for Green Skills for a Sustainable Future Professional Development course, and academic lead for Green Industrial Interventions lab. Her research addresses complexities in designing interventions for the adoption and diffusion of key sustainable solutions. She focuses on achieving pivotal tipping points in critical areas such as electrification, hydrogen, carbon capture utilization and storage, and direct air capture, synthetic fuels crucial for decarbonizing energy-intensive sectors.

Her research has been published in several leading journals including Applied Energy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Sustainable Production and Consumption and Frontiers in Sustainable Energy Policy.