Tonle Kenfack Ignas
University of Dschang, Cameroon
Biography
Ignas Kenfack Tonle is Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Dschang (Cameroon) where he leads a research group working on the development of sensors and biosensors based on inorganic porous materials and lignocellulosic materials. In collaboration with the Electrochemistry and Analytical Chemistry research group of Dr Alain Walcarius (University of Lorraine, Nancy- France), his PhD thesis was defended in 2004 at the University of Yaounde 1 (Cameron) under the supervision of Prof Emmanuel Ngameni. The research was focussed on the grafting of organosilanes onto the surface of smectite-type clay minerals, followed by the application of the obtained organoclays as electrode materials in electroanalysis. In 2008, he moved to Prof Christian Detellier’s group (University of Ottawa, Canada) for a one year postdoctoral position. Since 2013, he is a Georg Foster Senior Scientist Fellow to the ‘Elektroanalytik & Sensorik’ group headed by Prof Dr Wolfgang Schuhmann at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Bochum, Germany).