Victor Ongoma

Victor is a meteorologist with specialty in climatology and climate change. He holds a PhD (Meteorology) from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China, attained in 2017. His PhD thesis focused on variability of extreme climate events over East Africa. Victor earned his MSc and BSc (Meteorology) from the University of Nairobi in Kenya in 2012 and 2009, respectively.

Before joining Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Victor worked for the University of the South Pacific, Fiji as a lecturer of Physical Geography. He had been an assistant then a lecturer in Meteorology at South Eastern Kenya University, Kenya. He also worked for the Kenyan government as a meteorologist prior to joining academia.

His career objective is to be a competent and life driven researcher, trainer, and author who is conscious of and responsive to environmental challenges. He has taken part in a number of collaborative research activities, through which he has managed to publish widely in his area of expertise.