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]
  • Work
    • MIT