AfriqAir and CAMS-Net General Meeting

Keynote Panel

Keynote panel: Recent Advances in Air Quality in Africa + Q/A

 

N'datchoh Evelyne Toure - Université Felix Houphouet Boigny Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

N’Datchoh E. TOURE is a researcher at the Laboratoire des Sciences de la Matière, de l'Environnement et de l'Énergie Solaire (LASMES) of the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (UFHB)  in Côte d’Ivoire. She completed her Ph.D. in 2015 from the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) in Nigeria. Her Ph.D. work focused on the West African aerosols and their climate impacts within the framework of West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) and International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Sandwich Training Educational Programme (STEP) scholarships. Following her graduation, she earned a postdoctoral position in Laboratoire d’Aerologie of Toulouse (France) where she worked on climate modeling and investigating uncertainties in African biomass emission inventories and atmospheric pollution impact on human health.

 

Engineer Bainomugisha - Airqo, Uganda

Engineer Bainomugisha is an Associate Professor and Chair, Computer Science at Makerere University, Uganda. Through his research work, Engineer is on a mission to harness the transformative power of computational technology and intelligence to tackle complex society challenges for the benefit of humanity. He has pioneered and led several social impact initiatives including, AirQo (https://www.airqo.africa), a Google AI Impact Challenge winner initiative that leverages AI, IoT and Cloud technologies for environmental air pollution monitoring, modelling and analysis in African cities to foster resilience and healthy urban communities. He is also passionate about contributing to quality Computer Science education in Africa that is of sufficient breadth and depth, practical and fast enough. He is a Co-Founder of Sunbird AI (https://sunbird.ai), a not for profit initiative that develops and deploys practical AI systems for social impact. 

 

Daniel Westervelt - Columbia University, USA

 

Daniel Westervelt is currently a Lamont Assistant Research Professor at Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, NY. In addition, Daniel Westervelt is a Columbia University Climate and Life Fellow leading a project on air pollution and climate change in Africa. Daniel Westervelt is also an affiliated scientist with the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies in New York, NY, and an air pollution advisor to the US State Department. Daniel Westervelt is an affiliate faculty of the Columbia University Data Science Institute.

 

 

 

 

 

Didier Ntwali - Rwandan Space Agency, Rwanda

Dr. Ntwali Didier is the Division Manager of Earth and Space Science Division and the Chief Scientist of Rwanda Climate Observatory Project at Rwanda Space Agency. He has a PhD degree in Atmospheric Physics and Atmospheric Environment from Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). He previously worked as Post-Doctoral Researcher at IAP/UCAS. His research interests are atmospheric dynamics within and above the atmosphere, aerosol-cloud micro-macrophysics interactions, climate change and space physics based on satellite and ground-based remote sensing and modeling. He has been a lecturer and supervisor of Masters and Undergraduate students and co-supervisor of PhD student at University of Rwanda and other private universities in Rwanda. He has been a consultant of two UNDP projects.