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Education
Oct 2022-In Progress
Ph.D. in Automatic, Signal and Image Processing
University of Côte d’Azur, Nice, France
Advisors: Frédéric Grognard, Valentina Baldazzi and Suzanne Touzeau
Sep 2021-Jun 2022
MSc. in Data Science
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Limbe, Cameroon
Advisor: Prof. Nathalie Verdière
Oct 2019-Jul 2021
MSc. in Mathematics
University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon
Advisor: Prof. Jean Louis Woukeng
Oct 2016-Jul 2019
BSc. in Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon
Advisor: Prof. Jean Louis Woukeng
Research experiences
Ecophysiological modeling of plant nematode interactions to understand plant tolerance (2022-ongoing)
Advisors: Frédéric Grognard, Valentina Baldazzi, Suzanne Touzeau
A mechanistic model is built to study the complex interplay among plant physiological and architectural traits, abiotic conditions and nematode biology that affects the infection dynamics.
Mathematical modeling of a forest environment: role of water cycle (2022)
Advisor: Nathalie Verdière
We described the dynamics of forest ecosystems based on a reaction-diffusion-advection mathematical system.
*Manuscript: Penlap, J. & Verdière, N. 2022
Work experiences
Jan 2023 - Apr 2023
Teaching Assistant
Providing tutorials in Mathematical Analysis to third level students (28 hours/year), Côte d’Azur University, valrose, France
Oct 2022 - Sep 2025
Doctoral Researcher
Working on plant pathology within an INRAE-Inria research team: INRAE (ISA/M2P2) & Inria (Biocore), France
Apr 2019 - Jul 2021
Research Assistant
Providing support to research teams of URMA (Mathematics Research Unit), University of Dschang, Cameroon
May 2020
Conference monitor
at the department of Mathematics and computer science,University of Dschang, Cameroon
Contributed Conference Talks and Posters
- Mathematical Population Dynamics, Ecology and Evolution (MPDEE), April 24-28, 2023, Marseille, France
Modelling plant-nematode interactions to understand plant tolerance - 14th conference on Dynamical Systems Applied to Biology and Natural Sciences (DSABNS), Feb 5-8, 2023, Bilbao, Spain
Echophysiological modelling of plant-nematode interactions to understand plant tolerance (Poster) - Biocore seminar on automatic control and dynamical systems theory to artificial ecosystems, Oct 3-6, 2022, Porquerolles island in Hyères, France
Some results in Agro-forestry (Talk)
Conferences, Workshops and summer schools
- International Graduate School on Control (Static and dynamic optimisation), April 17-21, 2023, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- BOOST Winter School - Biocontrol and Biostimulants, Dec 12-16, 2022, Institut Sophia Agrobiotech (ISA), France
- Workshop on machine learning, Sep 2021, Limbe, Cameroon
- Workshop on Modelling in population dynamics, Dec 8-9, 2022, Institut Sophia Agrobiotech (ISA), France
Awards and Fellowships
- INRAE-Inria PhD Grant Fellowship in France - 2022
- MasterCard Foundation Scholarship for studies at AIMS - 2021
- National winner prize OUC Africa - 2020
- President Paul Biya’s academic excellence award - 2018-19-20-21