Honours for ICTP Alumnus

The Humboldt Foundation has awarded the AGNES (African-German Network of Excellence in Science) grant for Junior Researchers to Cameroonian researcher Antoine Celestin Kengni Jotsa, an ICTP Postgraduate Diploma Programme graduate from the 2007-2008 class. The award, which was given during a Humboldt Colloquium that ran from 6 to 8 March 2014 in Nairobi, Kenya, provides young researchers from Africa with funding opportunities and advice of experienced mentors from the scientific community and academia.
 
Kengni Jotsa, who now works as a research assistant at the National Advanced School of Engineering of Yaoundé, obtained his PhD from the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy. At ICTP, he studied mathematics and completed his thesis on 'Fixed Points and Topological Degree'.
 
Kengni Jotsa gave a presentation about "Solutions of 2D Elliptic Equations by Conservative Finite Element Methods" during the Engineering and Geology session of the Humboldt colloquium. More details may be found on the Humboldt Foundation website.