Yvonne Bonzi-Coulibaly
{{Short description|Burkinabe doctor of chemistry}}
Yvonne Libona Bonzi-Coulibaly is the first female doctor in chemistry in Burkina Faso, a full professor at the University of Ouagadougou, a member of the Academy of Sciences of Burkina Faso, the Director-General of the Institute of Sciences of Burkina Faso, and a laureate of the African Union Kwame Nkrumah Prize.
Biography
After obtaining a "baccalauréat série D" in 1978, she entered the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Abidjan to study chemistry-biology-geology.{{cite web|url=https://netafrique.net/portrait-yvonne-bonzi-une-reference-dans-le-domaine-scientifique-au-burkina/ |title=Portrait : Yvonne Bonzi, une référence dans le domaine scientifique au Burkina |website=netafrique.net |accessdate=22 April 2021}} Bonzi-Coulibaly earned a doctorate at Strasbourg-I University in organic chemistry from Guy Ourisson.
From 2008 to 2013, she was director of research at the University of Ouagadougou, where she has been a professor-researcher since 2002.{{cite web|url=https://www.burkina24.com/2013/12/18/le-prix-prix-kwame-nkrumah-2013-revient-au-pr-bonzicoulibaly-libona-yvonne/ |title=Le prix Prix Kwamé Nkrumah 2013 revient au Pr Bonzi/Coulibaly Libona Yvonne |website=Burkina24 |accessdate=22 April 2021}} She is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Burkina Faso. Since 2018,{{cite web|url=https://www.sig.bf/2018/03/compte-rendu-du-conseil-des-ministres-du-jeudi-1er-mars-2018/ |title=Compte rendu du Conseil des ministres du jeudi 1er mars 2018 |website=Service d'Information du Gouvernement (sig.bf) |accessdate=22 April 2021}} she has been the Director-General of Burkina Faso's Institute of Sciences which was created in 2004.{{cite web|url=https://lefaso.net/spip.php?article92453 |title=Enseignement supérieur : L’Institut des sciences célèbre ses 15 ans d’existence |website=lefaso.net |accessdate=22 April 2021}}
In 2020, in partnership with the academic and scientific cooperation of higher education establishments of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, she began working with Pascal Gerbaux on organic farming and market gardening to replace synthetic inputs with bio-inputs.{{cite web|url=https://www.ares-ac.be/fr/actualites/720-burkina-faso-des-bio-intrants-pour-la-rentabilite-de-l-agriculture-bio-et-la-sante-des-burkinabe |title=Burkina Faso : Des bio-intrants pour la rentabilité de l’agriculture bio et la santé des Burkinabè |website= ARES (Academie de Recherche et d'Ensignement Superieur) |accessdate=22 April 2021}}
Awards
2013: African Union Kwame Nkrumah Prize
Publications
- [https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/rseau/2016-v29-n3-rseau02941/1038927ar/ Removal of COD in wastewaters by activated charcoal from rice husk], Yacouba Sanou, Samuel Pare, Gnon Baba, Nyonuwosro Kwamivi Segbeaya et Libona Yvonne Bonzi-Coulibaly, Revue des sciences de l’eau / Journal of Water Science, Vol. 29, No. 3, pgs. 265–277, 2016, issn: 0992-7158, issn2: 1718-8598, doi: 10.7202/1038927ar.
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Category:University of Strasbourg alumni
Category:Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Ouagadougou
Category:20th-century women scientists
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