Hervé Joël Tchognia Nkuissi

Hervé J. Tchognia Nkuissi received his Ph.D. in Materials Science at the University of Yaoundé I in Cameroon in 2016 after completing his Ph.D. studies at the Hassan II University of Casablanca in Morocco thanks to the African Network for Solar Energy (ANSOLE) doctoral mobility scholarship. He worked on the synthesis and the characterization of inorganic materials for solar energy conversion. Between September 2020 and November 2021, he carried out his postdoctoral studies at the Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Ingénieur, de l’Imagérie et de l’Informatique (ICUBE), University of Strasbourg (France) on Organic photovoltaics within the framework of the Franco-German “Make Our Planet Great Again (MOPGA)” research initiative. The goal was replacing the usual fullerene acceptor derivative (PC71BM) by non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) and blending them with several electron-donor polymers to reach a 15% Power Conversion Efficiency and to approach a device lifetime of 15 years. His works have been the subject of more than twenty scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals including a book and 2 chapter books and have been presented in many international conferences in Europe, Africa and, online. In 2013, he has been awarded best PhD student oral contribution prize during the regional workshop on Materials Science for Solar Energy Conversion, Cape Town, South Africa. Currently, he is Assistant Professor at the School of Geology and Mining Engineering, University of Ngaoundéré (Cameroon). His main research field is the design of semiconducting materials for photovoltaic applications, the fabrication of OPVs and OFETs, the numerical simulations of solar cells, Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations of photovoltaic materials… Email: hervetchognia@gmail.com