Arsene Tema Biwole
Nuclear Scientist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Arsene Tema Biwole is a Cameroonian Physicist and Nuclear Engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Energy Engineering and a master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, and a PhD in Physics from EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
Selected honors and awards:
- Top 0.1% best students in Central Africa on the 2011 Italian embassy ranking, 2011 [Italy].
- Politecnico di Torino distinguished academic achievement award, 2012 [Italy].
- EDISU Piemonte super merit student prize, 2012 [Italy].
- Banca Sella research award, 2016 [Italy].
- EPFL doctoral thesis distinction for outstanding PhD thesis in Physics, 2023 [Switzerland].
- Knight of the order of merit of the republic of Cameroon, 2021 [Cameroon].
- Preferred Cameroonian Personality in the Diaspora, 2020 Afrik-Inform Poll, [Cameroon]
- Among the best young scientists of the African Continent, Jeune Afrique, 2018.
- Cameroon Youth Excellence Prize Laureate, 2020 [Cameroon]
- Cited by Paul Biya, President of the Republic of Cameroon, as a role model, 2021 [Cameroon]