Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla’s Bio
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Research and Innovation Centre Kigali, Rwanda
Dr. Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla is the AIMS Network Research Chair in Climate Change Science based at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Research and Innovation center (AIMS-RIC) in Kigali, Rwanda, where he leads a group of researchers, postdoctoral fellows, doctoral students, and master’s students.
Previously, he was the Director of Research and Senior Scientist in Climate Modeling
and Climate Change at the WASCAL Competence Center in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. At the same institution, he was also appointed as the Head of Climate Change and Climate Variability Research Cluster and Acting Coordinator of Observation Networks at different periods. He has completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, and was a researcher and lecturer at Loyola Marymount University | Los Angeles (LMU|LA), California, USA.
His research interests are climate change and impacts, climate modeling, scenarios and uncertainties, climate hazards and risks, climate information for adaptation and DRR, climate services, climate policy, AI/ML for climate science among others. With over 15 years of post-PhD experience, he has authored/co-authored more than 100 publications in international journals and books on climate science (see my Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5NfYsoUAAAAJ&hl=en), taught various courses related to climate change and climate modeling at various universities (Africa and the United States), and contributed to numerous training courses, workshops, and conferences worldwide.
Dr. Sylla is a member of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) and the co-chair of the WMO Regional Association 1’s committee on Research and Capacity Building. He co-leads the WMO’s state of climate in Africa annual reports, has participated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report 6 and is also a lead author for IPCC Assessment Report 7 which will be completed around 2028/2029.