Bonfils Safari

University of Rwanda: Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management (CoEB) • Head of Rwanda Climate Observatory Master's Program

Professor Bonfils Safari is a physicist specializing in atmospheric and climate science with long experience in teaching and research. He has been at the former National University of Rwanda since its reopening in December 1994 after the Genocide committed against the Tutsi and since 2013, with the merging of the Higher Learning Public Institutions, he has been at the University of Rwanda until today. Prof. Bonfils Safari was actively involved in the development of postgraduate programs, namely the Center for Geographic and Remote Sensing in collaboration with Georgia Institute of Technology (GeorgiaTech, USA), the MSc program in Atmospheric and Climate Science in collaboration with the Massachusett Institute of Technology (MIT, USA), in the Department of Physics, and the MSc program in Physics at the East Africa Institute of Fundamental Research (EAIFR) in collaboration with the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). These programs have been open to training Rwandan and international students at the postgraduate level at the University of Rwanda. Professor Bonfils Safari has played a central role in the development of research and outreach activities related to atmospheric and climate science placing the School of Sciences at the forefront of the framework of collaboration between the Rwanda Meteorological Agency, the Rwanda Environment Authority and the Rwanda Space Agency. At the international level, Professor Bonfils Safari participates, as Co-chair of the Scientific Assessment Panel of the Montreal Protocol, in scientific and outreach activities contributing to bringing solutions to one of the major worldwide concerns: the depletion of the ozone layer that protect against ultra-violet radiations, the major cause of skin cancer, cataract, and destruction of the ecosystem.

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