Next Einstein Forum Fellow Award and Alumnus of the month nomination for Peter Ngene


Peter Ngene is one of the seventeen ‘Next Einstein Forum’ Fellows 2017-2019, for Africa’s most outstanding and promising young scientists. On 27 March, he received the award from Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda and currently Chairman of the African Union. More information about this award can be found here.

Peter was also recently elected as ‘Alumnus of the month’ at Utrecht Universtity. More information about his nomination can be found in the UU press release (in Dutch).

Furthermore, he recently published in Nature Communications as a first author. The article with the title: ‘Metal-hydrogen systems with an exceptionally large and tunable thermodynamic destabilization’ can be found here + UU press release (in Dutch).