Teachers

Prof. Bjorn Pehrson will lead the Research Component 3 of weather station densification which entails prototyping a suitable and affordable automatic weather station and thereafter building 70 such stations for deployment in Uganda, Tanzania and South Sudan Bjorn is an adjuct professor at…

Dora Bampangana will assist with project management. She is an Administrative Secretary in the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Finance and Administration) – Makerere University having previously served as an Administrative Assistant, Graduate Studies and Research at the College of…

Daudi Mboma is an Instructor at Dar-es-salaam Institute of Technology. He is a graduate of the Institute of Finance Management with a Masters of Science IT & Management. He has an extensive experience in IT specialized in Business applications. He has been involved in number of government…

Mathew is a PhD student at the University of Bergen and Uni Research in Norway. His research covers the monsoon in Bangladesh. Together with his colleagues, they try to reconcile societal perceptions with the scientific definitions of monsoon. Reeve also works with science communication and…

Joachim has more than 20 years of experience in atmospheric boundary layer research among others in the fields of turbulence and turbulent exchange processes, air-sea interaction, atmospheric radiation, and the effects of orography on the wind field and precipitation.

Amos Nungu (PhD) will coordinate the DIT project activities and leads the Research Component 2 on digitising the manual weather records into electronic weather repositories to ensure reliable, accurate and well-formatted data for seasonal weather forecasts and climate research. …

Assoc. Prof Okou is part of the Research Component 3 team that will design and develop a low cost robust automatic weather station. He is an Associate Professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Cape Town, a Master of…

As the Project Gender Focal Person, Dr. Agnes Rwashana Semwanga will assist the Project coordinator in managing all the gender aspects of the project. Having been the first graduate in the PhD Computer Science program at Makerere University – She has spearheaded the mentoring and guidance…

Dr. Kanagwa will lead the Research Component 4 team that will design and develop the weather information dissemination system (WIDS). The WIDS will present relevant and suitably packaged information to different stakeholders in urban and rural areas in a way that…

Dr. Nabukenya is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher of Information Systems and Dean of the School of Computing and Informatics Technology (SCIT), at Makerere University, Uganda. In the WIMEA-ICT project she will be a Researcher in the Research Component 4 team to design the Weather…