He was promoted on October 23, 2023 in Washington DC during the annual meeting of the International Physics Forum.
A new challenge for Stéphane Kenmoe. He was promoted on October 23, 2023 in Washington DC to the position of Publication Director (PD) of the International Physics Forum (FIP) Newsletter. It was during the annual FIP meeting.
« It will be both a challenge and an honor to serve the international community through this biannual newsletter, highlighting current events in the physical sciences around the world. For the next two years, we will scan for our readers the highlights of life in the physical sciences across all the meridians and parallels of the Earth’s globe » declared Stéphane Kenmoe after taking office.
Created in 1982, the mission of FIP, the commitment unit of the American Physical Society, is to advance knowledge in the physical sciences and ensure its dissemination on a global scale by boosting cooperation and communication between physicists of all disciplines. Nations. “ I am proud to contribute to it through the linking tool and distribution matrix that is the newsletter » underlines Stéphane Kenmoe.
Aged 39, Stéphane Kenmoe obtained a doctorate in physics at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Germany in 2015. He is currently a candidate for habilitation at the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Duisburg. Essen, Germany. He also popularizes science on television and social media. Writer and novelist, he produced in 2020 the film “ Science in the City ” in Cameroon.
He is very active in networking to promote early career African scientists and to connect science and society. He has received numerous awards for his engagement, including the 2020 Diversity Prize for Academic Leadership at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Falling Walls Prize for Scientific Engagement in 2021, and the Prototypes of Humanity Prize from the Dubai Arts and Culture Authority in 2022.
Since 2022, he has been the editor-in-chief of the African Physics Newsletter, an electronic quarterly on physics in Africa published by the American Physical Society. Also, he was featured three times in the journal Nature, the most prestigious publisher in science.
