Professor Leontine Nkamba visits Dycon Project in Deustotech in the framework of the 3rd edition of the SCIENCE BY WOMEN programme

The Women for Africa Foundation, in line with its mission of contributing to the development of Africa through its women, launched the 3rd Edition of SCIENCE BY WOMEN programme, with the aim to promote African women’s leadership in scientific research and technology transfer and to foster the capacity of the research centres in their home countries. To achieve this ambitious goal, the Women for Africa Foundation collaborates with, among other Spanish centres of excellence, DeustoTech as the host institution, and Diputación Foral de Bizkaia as promoter. The objective is to enable African women researchers and scientists to tackle the great challenges faced by Africa through research in health and biomedicine, agriculture and food security, water, energy and climate change, mathematics, information and communication technologies and economic sciences.

In this framework, the ERC Dycon project and DeustoTech welcome the visit of Professor Leontine Nkamba from Cameroon. Leontine has been granted a research placement by the aforementioned programme, promoted by the Women for Africa Foundation in collaboration with the Provincial Council of Biskaya. Professor Nkamba holds a joint Ph.D in Applied Mathematics from the University of Lorraine (France) and the University of Gaston Berger (Senegal). Currently, she is Senior Lecturer at University of Yaoundé I, Higher Teacher Training College, Department of Mathematics and Co-Chair of the Commission African Women in Mathematics. In December 2017, she was appointed Vice Director of National School of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technologies by the President of the Republic of Cameroon. She has published about mathematics applied to health and infectious diseases.

In the framework of the “Programme For Women, Science, Technology and Innovation in Africa”, promoted by Women for Africa Foundation in collaboration with the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, Professor Nkamba will work at the Chair of Computation Mathematics of Deustotech-Deusto Foundation to develop a research project entitled “Mathematical modelling of the spatio-temporal spread of tuberculosis”.