The NEF believes that Africa’s contributions to the global scientific community are critical for global progress. At the center of NEF efforts are Africa’s young people, the driving force for for Africa’s scientific renaissance.
Uganda’s Dr Justus Masa, a scientist from Kyambogo University/Ruhr-University Bochum was also announced among other 15 fellows for this year’s Next Einstein Forum programme, in the second cohort class of 2017-2019. Moris Atwine writes in enstartup that, Masa’s research aims to use electrochemistry to create green and sustainable energy systems for both portable and grid-scale energy conversion and storage, particularly, the reversible interconversion of water into hydrogen and oxygen in a solar powered water electrolyzer, and the recombination of hydrogen and oxygen to water in a fuel cell thereby harnessing the energy of the reaction. Read more
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