Participants
2 April 2024
15:25 – 16:10
Amphi 2
Kokou Adjallé
Kokou Adjallé is a professor at the Centre Eau, Terre et Environnement of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS-ETE) in Quebec, Canada. A physicist and chemist by training (bachelor’s degree from the University of Lomé, Togo), Professor Kokou Adjallé obtained a master’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of Liège in Belgium, and a doctorate in water sciences from INRS-ETE. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), where he worked as a research officer for the Chaire de recherche industrielle en environnement et biotechnologie (CRIEB) of the biomass-based Institut d’Innovations en Écomatériaux, Écoproduits et Écoénergies (I2E3). Professor Adjallé has also been a lecturer at UQTR, and a project manager at Innofibre (a college technology transfer center in Trois-Rivières). He is also an associate professor at the University of Sherbrooke and a scientific advisor for the City of Victoriaville. Professor Adjallé’s research skills and expertise focus on environmental biotechnology and green chemistry in the fields of bioenergies, biomaterials and bioproducts (biopesticides, biosurfactants, enzymes, etc.). His work has been the subject of several publications, national and international partnerships and numerous awards.