Alumni
Our Alumni
The RSIF Alumni network will be established in 2022, when the first 15 students are expected to graduate. See current students here.


Dr. Jean Nepomuscene Hakizimana
Rwanda
2010
Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA)
Determination of the genetic variation and epidemiology of African swine fever (ASF) virus in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Dr. Jean Nepomuscene Hakizimana is a Rwandese national who was among the 15 Cohort 1 RSIF PhD Scholarship recipients in 2018, and RSIF’s very first PhD Graduate to receive a Doctorate of Philosophy degree on Friday, 26th November 2021 during the 38th Graduation Ceremony of Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), one of the RSIF African Host Universities (AHUs) in Tanzania. His research, under the thematic area of Food Security and Agribusiness, was titled “Determination of the genetic variation and epidemiology of African swine fever virus in selected countries of eastern and southern Africa”. He now works as a PhD Fellow at the Africa Centre of Excellence for Infectious Diseases of Humans and Animals in Southern and Eastern Africa (SACIDS-ACE). See RSIF Alumni here.