Alumni

David Oluwasegun Afolayan, who was enrolled at the African University of Science and Technology (AUST) in Abuja, Nigeria, one of the RSIF African Host Universities (AHUs), successfully defended his PhD theses on 20th December 2021 . His research was in the RSIF Thematic area of minerals, mining and materials engineering. Dr. Afolayan undertook his sandwich programme at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), one of the RSIF International Partner Institutions (IPIs), where his research focused on “Optimization of smart beneficiation and mineral bioprocessing strategy of Nigerian barite for industrial application”. He is currently a volunteer Postdoctoral fellow at the AHU (AUST, Nigeria).

Dr. Emmanuel Effah received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in the field of IoT from Gaston Berger University, Senegal, in February 2022 with funding from PASET-RSIF. He is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), Ghana. His research interests include wireless sensor networks (WSNs), Agricultural-Internet-of-Things (Agri-IoT), IoT-based Water monitoring System, smart systems design technology, and machine learning. He has authored many research papers published in reputable journals and conference proceedings and has participated in several international research projects.

Dr. Noel Gahamanyi is PASET-RSIF Alumnus from Rwanda. Dr. Gahamanyi is a Lecturer of Microbiology at University of Rwanda. He is a Microbiologist with interest in Bacterial pathogens, their drug-resistance, and using natural products as alternative antimicrobials. Dr. Gahamanyi completed his Ph.D. studies at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania in 2021 under the PASET scholarship. Dr. Gahamanyi holds MSc in Microbiology from Jain University (India) and BSc in Biotechnology from the former National University of Rwanda. Before embarking on Ph.D. journey, Dr. Gahamanyi served as a Lecturer of Microbiology-related courses at Catholic University of Rwanda where he also served as Head of Biotechnology Department and then as the Vice-dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology (2013-2018). In Research, Dr. Gahamanyi has ten (10) published papers and one book chapter all related to Microbiology. Six of these papers are indexed in the PubMed. He also served as a reviewer for six (06) international journals. Dr. Gahamanyi chaired the committee in charge of monthly webinars for PASET scholars (2021-2020). Dr. Gahamanyi is a member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and the Young East African Health Research Scientists (YEARS) forum affiliated to the East African Health Research Commission. Dr. Gahamanyi received a number of awards including the Best Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) Postgraduate student Research Award for the academic year 2020-21 and the First-class with gold medal after completing MSc in Microbiology at top of the class (2013).

DR KOECH holds a PhD Degree in Material Science and Engineering and MSc. Degree in Physics. He is an RSIF alumnus and currently a lecturer of Physics in Moi University-Kenya. His research interest is on materials characterization for applications in solar cells, Light emitting diodes and energy storage devices. His current research, focus is on perovskite solar cell and has published a number of papers in this area.