Congratulations to Boris Ouattara for a successful PhD defense

Congratulations to Boris Ouattara for a successful PhD defense

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Africa | News | PhD thesis | training | WASCAL-DE-Coop | West Africa

September 20, 2024

Blou Adama Boris Ouattara successfully defended his PhD thesis on Landscape fires and its induced emissions in West Africa yesterday (September 19th 2024).

Congratulation from the whole Earth Observation Research cluster! Boris Ouattara is an alumni of the former WASCAL Masters Programme on Climate Change and Human Security at the University of Lomé (Togo).

His Phd was supervised by Prof. Barbara Sponholz, Prof. Dr. Heiko Paeth (both Insitute of Geography and Geology) and Prof. Dr. Claudia Künzer (EORC). Additional examiner was Prof. Dr. Tobias Ullman (EORC).

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