Returning to Ghana After a Ph.D

Dr. Albert Kobina Mensah is a Ghanaian scientist and works as a Research Scientist with Ghana’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Soil Research Institute in Kumasi. He earned his PhD in environmental soil science from Germany's Ruhr-Universität Bochum and has a Master of Science in water resources/watershed management from Kenyatta University in Kenya and a Bachelor of Science in general agriculture from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. His research focuses on soil contamination and pollution, soil potentially hazardous elements and remediation, environmental risk assessment, redox chemistry of potentially toxic elements, and the sustainability of artisanal and small-scale mining. He has participated in numerous rigorous laboratory investigations and field experiments to identify potential sustainable solutions to soil pollution concerns caused by gold mining in Ghana. He is a young researcher with a track record of doing and publishing high-quality research in high-impact journals in the fields of environmental sciences, soil sciences, public health, and mine sector sustainability. His scholarships have been published in prestigious international environmental science journals, and he has given oral presentations and appeared at international soil science conferences.