Dr Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla is the AIMS-Canada Research Chair in Climate Change Science based in Kigali, Rwanda where he leads a group of postdocs, PhD and master students. Prior to this, he was the director of research and the senior scientist in climate modeling and climate change at the WASCAL Competence Center, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Within the same institution and simultaneously with these, he was also appointed as head of climate change and climate variability research cluster and acting coordinator of observation networks at different periods of time. Dr Sylla completed a postdoc at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy and he was a research scholar and lecturer at Loyola Marymount University | Los Angeles, California, USA. His research interests focus on climate modeling, climate change (i.e. projections, uncertainties, extremes, hazards and risks), climate information and climate service. With more than 12 years of post-PhD experience, he has authored/co-authored more than 60 publications in international climate journals and books (see my google scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5NfYsoUAAAAJ&hl=en), has taught diverse climate related courses in different universities in Africa and contributed to numerous trainings, workshops and conferences around the World. Dr. Sylla has participated to the IPCC Assessment Report 6 where he acted as a Lead Author for WG1 Chapter 12, a contributing author for WG1 Chapter 11 and WG1 Atlas, and a contributing author for the WG2 Chapter 9: Africa