Prof. Diouma KOBOR, Inventor, Director of ANER and Professsor at Assance Seck University of Ziguinchor (UASZ) is a senegalese materials scientist committed to helping his country design new strategies to reduce fossil fuel emissions. Thanks to a TWAS research grant supported by Sida for the period 2022-2024, he is testing new materials to build inexpensive solar cells and stimulate cost-effective technology that converts sunlight into electricity. Senegal is developing a long-term energy strategy to reduce fossil fuel emissions and deploy renewable energies by 2030. For its innovative inventions, Kobor holds a patent published within the framework of the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI), and two international patents from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Dr. Philippe EVON is Research Engineer at the Laboratory of Agro-industrial Chemistry in Toulouse, France. Since 2008, he is the Head of the Agromat pilot plant dedicated to agromaterials in Tarbes, near Toulouse. Philippe Evon’s scientific interests range from the biorefinery of whole plants to the valorization of wastes from biomass to produce extracts and to design agromaterials. In the last years, he has been engaged in several national and international research initiatives and industrial contracts aiming at using biomass as raw material for technological applications. His PhD work has been awarded with the Paul Sabatier Prize (Chemistry section) of the Académie des Sciences, Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres de Toulouse in 2009. He is member of the French research group on bio-sourced building materials (GDR MBS), and of the GREEN-CHEM network dedicated to green chemistry
Prof. Balla Diop NGOM is associate of the UNESCO-UNISA chair in nanosciences and nanotechnologies at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa and currently employed at the Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal where he is Full Professor and Director of the Quantum Energy & NanoFabrication Photonics Laboratory. Professor NGOM is an independent African researcher (FLAIR) a project funded by the Royal Society of UK in partnership with the African Academy of Sciences. In addition, Professor NGOM also developed strong entrepreneurial instincts, which not only led to several awards but also guided his research to produce devices with commercial potential. Its greatest strengths correspond to those that are most needed to create cutting-edge multidisciplinary research in the dynamics of innovative nanostructured materials/ methods for applied nanotechnology.
Prof. Youssef HABIBI received his Ph.D in Organic and Polymer Chemistry from both the University of Cadi Ayyad in Marrakech, Morocco, and Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France. Following a career in the US, Belgium, and Luxembourg, he accepted a position as a Chair in Sustainable Materials at the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) in Morocco. He belongs to the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and the American Chemical Society (ACS). The design of new bio-derived polymers and (nano)fillers, the creation of biomaterials and high-performance nanocomposites from lignocellulosic materials, biomass conversion and recycling technologies, and the application of innovative analytical tools to biomass are just a few of the areas in which Prof. HABIBI works in the development of sustainable materials through green chemical processes. Over 120 peer-reviewed articles have been written by him, and throughout the last four years, he has been listed among the Global Highly Cited Researchers (Clarivate Analytics). In addition, he edited one book and wrote more than 20 book chapters.
Prof. Mouhamadou Aziz DIOP is an Associate Professor and PhD/Master’s Supervisor at the School of Metallurgy, Northeastern University (Shenyang, China). He holds engineering degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering and a PhD in Physics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France). His research centers on computational metallurgy, with particular emphasis on multiphysics modeling of aluminum electrolysis cells, large-scale thermo-electro-magnetohydrodynamics, and multiscale transport phenomena in porous media. Prof. Diop has held research positions in Canada, the USA (ALCOA Technical Center), and the UAE, and actively collaborates with industry on advanced materials and sustainable metallurgical technologies.
Prof. Kohji NAKAMURA from Mie University in Japan is as well a member of the American Physical Society. His research interests include the development of an ab-initio computational method, a comprehensive linearized augmented plane wave method, for studying magnetism phenomena in complex hardware systems, including their use for studies on non-collinear magnetism, and magnetic spin-phenomena induced by an external electric field and induced by an orbital electric field of films and at the surface/interface.
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