Valery Bessely Stanislas Kouassi

• January 2025 - present: Doctoral Research fellow at the University of Bonn (research group Prof. Dr. Julian Klaus)

Project: EcoWat-Secure: Ecohydrological modeling in a data scare West Africa Sudanian watershed: Integrating agricultural dam-operation for water security predictions.

• June 2024-December 2024: Environmental & Social Performances Manager (Millenium Challenge Account Côte d’Ivoire)

Project: Abidjan Transport Project (ATP)

• February 2023-April 2024: Environment Specialist for Transport and Urban development projects (Urban Mobility Authority in Greater Abidjan)
• September 2020-July 2021: Environmental-Social-Hygiene Engineer Assistant (AFCONS Infrastructure Limited)

Project: 5451 Dry Bulk Cargo Terminal

• February 2020-July 2020: Environmental Engineer (Tractebel Engie – Côte d’Ivoire)

• From 2021: PhD candidate at the Graduate Research Program of Climate Change and Water Resources (Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Benin WASCAL-UAC).

Thesis: Global Change Adaptation: Ecohydrology and Agricultural Dams relationship in a West Africa’s data-scarce watershed

• 2021-2023: Professional Master in Transport and Urban Planning (National Polytechnic Institute Houphouët-Boigny (INPHB)- Côte d’Ivoire).

Thesis: Development of lagoon transport in Abidjan: study of environmental constraints.

• 2015-2017: MSc. Environmental Management & Sciences option: Ecology and Development of aquatic ecosystems. (Nangui Abrogoua University - Abidjan).

Thesis: Influence of thermal treatment of laterite on phosphorus absorption from domestic wastewater.

• 2012-2015: BSc. Water Technology and Sciences (Nangui Abrogoua University - Abidjan)

Thesis: Geomaterials used for domestic wastewater treatment: literature review

• 2025: Scholarship holder of the Argelander Scholarships for doctoral candidates from universities in Africa, Latin America and South/ East Asia
  https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/support-for-researchers-and-teachers/research-funding/university-grants/argelander-scholarships-phd-global-south
• 2021 – present: Scholarship holder of the West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL).
  For the Graduate Research Program on Climate Change and Water Resources, University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin. https://wascal.org/
• 2016 - 2017: Scholarship holder of the African Centre of Excellence on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture (CEA-CCBAD). 
  For Graduate studies, Côte d’Ivoire.
  https://wascal-ci.org/cea-ccbad/