Prof. Kokouvi Edem N’TSOUKPOE
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Dr.-Ing. habil. N’TSOUKPOE Kokouvi Edem is an Assistant Professor in Thermal Engineering at the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE).
He earned his Diploma of High-level Technician and a Master of Engineering in Water Sanitation, Energy and Civil Engineering at two undergraduate and graduate schools which were amalgamated to form 2iE. After completing his Ph.D. in Energy and Process Engineering at Université de Grenoble (France), he has spent two years in Germany as a Research Associate at the Innovations Incubator of Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, prior to returning to 2iE in 2013. He obtained his habilitation to conduct research in 2018 at Université Grenoble Alpes (France).
His lectures include Thermodynamics, Refrigeration, Solar Thermal Energy, Thermal Storage and Materials for Thermal Energy Engineering. His primary research interests are in the field of Solar Thermal Engineering and Thermal sorption processes. Specifically, he is interested in Thermal energy storage, Solar cooling, Concentrated solar power and more recently in Solar drying.
Edem is currently the Director of the College of Engineering 2iE (CoE-2iE). At 2iE, Edem is in charge of training and capacity building of Ph.D. of the Doctoral School of 2iE. He has led and is still leading various EU and AU-funded research projects.