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RESUME: TONNANG ZEFACK EDOUARD HENRI

PERSONAL DETAILS FULL NAME: Henri Edouard Zefack TONNANG ADDRESS: Integrated Crop Management, International Potato Center (CIP) Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Office ILRI Campus P. O. Box 25171 - 00603 Nairobi, Kenya. Mobile: +254 725797240 DATE OF BIRTH 09 June 1972 MARITAL STATUS: Married with one child EMAIL: h.tonnang@cgiar.org/htonnang@gmail.com CURRENT EMPLOYMENT: Ecological Modeler & Climate Change & Entomologist EMPLOYER: International Potato Center (CIP) NATIONALITY: CAMEROONIAN LANGUAGES: English, French, Dschang (fluent, both writing and speaking),

Spanish (intermediate, both writing and speaking), Swahili (Beginner)

SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL & ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) – Applied Mathematics 2005 – 2008, University of Nairobi, Kenya Masters of Science (MSc) - Microprocessors & Control Engineering 2001 – 2003, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Master of Science (MSc) – Mathematical Physics 1996 – 1998, University of Dschang, Cameroon Bachelor of Science – Physics (Honours) 1992 – 1996, University of Yaounde, Cameroon. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE June 2013 – icipe Afri can Inse c t Sc i ence fo r Food and Heal th Job Title: Seignior scientist/Ecological modeler Key role is to establish and lead an interdisciplinary ecological modeling unit within the center. June 2010 – International Potato Center (CIP) Job Title: Postdoctoral scientist Supervising and supporting the development of software named Insect life Cycle Modeling (ILCYM). The team under my coordination is made of a programmer specialized on R-coding, a Java programmer and GIS expert. The project is funded by GTZ/BMZ for Predicting climate change induced vulnerability of African agricultural systems to major insect pests through advanced insect phenology modeling, and decision aid development for adaptation planning. It is a project with several partners, our main collaborators are international agricultural research centers (IITA and icipe) and National Agriculture Research Institute (NARI). The data collection is conducted in 5 countries (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Cameroon and Benin). My responsibilities are:

• Conceptualize and develop process based phenology models for highly economic and invasive agricultural pests of global or regional economic important while accounting for climate change impacts.

• Apply latest statistical methods to link the process based phenology models to experimental data obtained from laboratory studies.

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• Ensure that ILCYM is fully optimized to a tool capable for analyzing different orders of tropical plant insect pests and their natural enemies.

• Ensure that the flexibility and user’s friendliness of ILCYM software and evaluate with project stakeholders.

• Ensure that ILCYM GIS module is properly optimized with basic functions for quantitative and qualitative geospatial analysis.

• Develop the theoretical component for two species interacting models. Ensure the implementation and testing with different host parasitoid data included in the BMZ climate change project.

• Ensure nice maps of distribution maps of selected agricultural pests with their respective natural enemies under present and future of climate scenarios are developed.

• Guide on the construction of a data base to support phenology models for insects pest and their antagonist establishment.

• Training on the use of ILCYM software as well as provide feedback and fellow-up to outside users (not part of the BMZ project) of ILCYM.

• Write a complete manual of ILCYM that includes the conceptual framework of the software and a clear description on how to use the software.

• Supervise students, write reports and publications. February 2010-April 2010 International Institute for Water and Environment Engineering, Job Title: Postdoctoral scientist & Lecturer, in charge of water modeling and teaching of modeling techniques. February 2009- February 2010 Institute of Resource Assessment (IRA) - University of Dar Es Salaam Job Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow Responsibilities included:

• Predicting and Mapping the potential distribution of Malaria Vectors in Africa under Climate Change Scenarios: Informing Malaria Control Programmes. Malaria is rampant in Africa and causes untold mortality and morbidity. There is growing evidence that climate change has an impact on vector-borne diseases, including malaria. The problem of malaria vectors (Anopheles) shifting from their actual location to invade new zones is an important concern.

• The vision of this study was to deeply exploit the sets of information previously generated by entomologists to build model that will enable predicting and mapping, the potential redistribution of Anopheles in Africa.

• The development of the tool was carried out through calibration of CLIMEX parameters. This model helped in estimating the potential geographical distribution and seasonal abundance of a species in relation to climatic factors. These included temperature, rainfall and relative humidity, which characterized the living environment for Anopheles. The same parameters are used in determining the Ecoclimatic Index (EI). The EI values are exported to GIS software for special analysis and maps generation showing the potential future distribution of different anopheles species within the Africa Continent.

September 2005 – November 2008 International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Job Title: Postgraduate Research Fellow (ARPPIS) Responsibilities included:

• Thesis Research on “Modeling Host-Parasitoid population dynamics applicable to diamondback moth”. This doctoral research study was to review integrated pest management (IPM) systems utilizing the use/release of the parasitoid Diadegma semiclausum that was developed in Kenya to replace the pesticides only approach to diamondback moth (DBM) Plutella xylostella (L.), which is the worst insect pest of cabbage family all over the world.

• To develop a mathematical model or tool that would expand the capacity of the available IPM tools to allow better management of the pest. Such a tool would help in monitoring and forecasting (early warning) of potential outbreaks that would in turn facilitate formulation of policies and control strategies.

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• To test most of well-known models (Lotka-Voltera model, Leslie model, Nicholson Bailey, Hassel & Varley, Beddington, Free & Lawton, May, Holling type 2, 3 and Getz & Mills functional responses, etc) to find the most suitable model for the dynamism and interactions between DBM and its natural enemy D. semiclausum. These tested models were implemented by a computer program written in C/C++ using Nelder Mead Powell,s methods and Runge-Kutta 4th algorithm.

• To use artificial intelligence technique implemented in C++ (neural networks) for the prediction of DBM /D. semiclausum population density and development of Knowledge based fitting technique for ecological models.

• To apply information from previous chapters and published data into the CLIMEX simulation platform for analyzing regionally and Africa wide present and future distribution of Plutella xylostella and its parasitoid under different climate change scenarios.

September 2003 – August2005: Faculty of Technology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Job Title: Research Assistant Reporting to the Project Co-ordinator (Dean Faculty of Technology, Prof. Omole), responsibilities included:

• Developing a neural networks model for the prediction of the PVT oil properties in the Nigeria-Niger Delta Region.

April 1999 – April 2001 French and Physics Teacher - our lady of Apostle Secondary School Ijebu-Ode Naigeria April 1998 – September 1998 Department of Physics, University of Dschang, Cameroon. Job Title: Teaching Assistant Reporting to the Head of the Department of Physics, I was responsible for:

• Assisting in teaching physics and conducting laboratory experiments and demonstrations for undergraduate students.

RESEARCH INTERESTS · Modeling and predicting species potential distributions · Climate change adaptation, computing techniques and applications for decision support · Use computer simulations to understand and predict systems and scenarios · Mathematical modeling using continuous and discrete differential equations · Model parameter restorations, based on combined mathematical and statistical methods of optimization · Knowledge based and adaptive modeling using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Fuzzy Logic · Data mining applied in biology and process control · Geo-statistical mapping of environmental variables and Landscape modeling · Statistical principles, experimental design and analysis. CONSULTANCIES

1. Contributed on the ongoing IPCC assessment report write-up Working Group II on Climate change induced vulnerability on African agricultural to pests and diseases

2. Contributed on the Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) scoping of the study with the focus of developing priorities to address pests and diseases in agricultural adaptation to climate change: East Africa, West Africa, and the Indo-Gangetic Plains.

3. Under the Pan African Start Secretariat (PASS), I have being involved on a UNDP project on climate change mitigation and adaptation in Africa. The task consists of building capacity in different African countries on the analysis of investment and financial flows (I&FF) for greenhouse gas mitigation and adaptation to climate change and for the development of effective and appropriate national responses to climate change.

4. Usually trained students/scientist on modeling tools such as CLIMEX, ILCYM, MAXENT etc. for analysis of present and future impacts due to global environmental change.

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5. I have served as the scientific advisor for the project tilted: Diffusion of Cost Effective Technologies for the control of mycotoxin contamination for increase health and income in Tanzania.

6. Consultant duties to the Centre de Recherche Entomologique Contonou (CREC) Benin Republic, in charge of constructing a predictor tool for the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae resistance to insecticide. The vision of the project was to exploit sets of information generated from previous studies to build a model that would enable the prediction of the emergence and flow of resistance to insecticides of Anopheles mosquito in the West African region.

March 2009 – Peer reviewer for the following Journals

1. Crop protection 2. Pest Management 3. Journal of Vectors Ecology 4. Journal of The Franklin Institute

NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS: RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS Product Software: Insect life Cycle Modeling (ILCYM)

User Guide: Tonnang, E.Z.H., Carhuapoma, P., Juarez, H., Gonzales, J.C., D. Mendoza, Sporleder, M., Simon, R., Kroschel, J. 2013. ILCYM - Insect Life Cycle Modeling. User Guide. A software package for developing temperature-based insect phenology models with applications for regional and global analysis of insect population and mapping. International Potato Center, Lima, Peru. pp 193.

Articles Published (Peer reviewed journals) 1. Kroschel J., Sporleder M., Tonnang, Z.E.H., Juarez H., Carhuapoma P., Gonzales J.C., Simon R.

(2013). Predicting climate-change-caused changes in global temperature on potato tuber moth Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller) distribution and abundance using phenology modeling and GIS mapping. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 170 (2013) 228–241

2. Garrett K. A., Dobson A., Kroschel J., Natarajan B., Orlandini S., Randolph S., Tonnang. Z.E.H., Valdivia C. (2013). The effects of climate variability and the color of weather time series on agricultural diseases and pests, and decision-making for their management. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology , 170 : 216–227.

3. Marc Sporleder, H. E. Z. Tonnang, Henry Juarez, Juan C. Gonzales, Pablo, Carhuapoma, Jürgen Kroschel (2013). Application and Use of Insect Phenology Modeling for Invasive Species for Regional and Global Risk Assessments under Future Climate Change Scenarios. CAB International 2013. Potential Invasive Pests of Agricultural Crops (ed. J. Peña) pp.412-426.

4. Tonnang, Z.E.H., Nedorezov, L.V., Löhr, B. (2012) Theoretical study of the effects of rainfall on the population abundance of Diamondback moth, Plutella xylostell. Population Dynamics: Analysis, Modelling, Forecast, 1:32-46.

5. Siza Mwalusepo, Tonnang, Z.E.H., Estomih S. Massawe (2011) Evaluation of continuous host-parasitoid models. African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research, 4: 39–54.

6. Olatunbosun, A. and Tonnang, Z.E.H. (2010), Artificial Neural Networks for Multivariable Process Control. India International Journal of Engineering, Vol. 4. No. 2, 169-178.

7. Tonnang, Z.E.H., Richard Kangalawe and Pius Yanda (2010). Predicting and mapping under climate change scenarios, the potential distribution of malaria vectors in Africa. Malaria Journal 9:111.

8. Tonnang, Z.E.H., and Adeboye Alotunbosun (2010). Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) for crude oil distillation column. ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences 5:74-82.

9. Tonnang, Z.E.H., Nedorezov, L.V., Ochanda, H., Owino, J., Lohr, B. (2010). Host-parasitoid population density prediction using Artifical Neural Networks: Diamondback Moth Plutella xylostella (L.) Diadegma semiclausum (Hellen) Agricultural and Forest Entomology. 12: 233-242.

Book chapters

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1. Marc Sporleder, H. E. Z. Tonnang, Henry Juarez, Juan C. Gonzales, Pablo, Carhuapoma, Jürgen Kroschel (2013). Application and Use of Insect Phenology Modeling for Invasive Species for Regional and Global Risk Assessments under Future Climate Change Scenarios. CAB International 2013. Potential Invasive Pests of Agricultural Crops (ed. J. Peña) pp.412-426.

2. Henri E. Z. Tonnang and Jean M. Tchuenche (2009). Fitting procedure for host-parasite systems. In: Advance in disease Epidemiology. Editor: J.M. Tchuenche, Z. Mukandavire, pp. 269-283 © 2009 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. ISBN 978-1-60741-452-0

3. Henri E. Z. Tonnang and Jean M. Tchuenche (2010). Knowledge Based for Host Parasite system. In: Host-Pathogen Interactions: Genetics, Immunology and Physiology. Editor: Annette W. Barton, pp 173-187© 2010 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-60876-286-6.

Proceedings

1. J. Kroschel, M. Sporleder, R. Simon, H. Juarez, J. Gonzales, P. Carhuapoma, H. E. Z. Tonnang (2010) Predicting the effects of global warming on insect pests. CGIAR SP-IPM Technical Innovation Brief 5.

2. Tonnang. Z.E.H., Nedorezov, L.V., Ochanda, H., Owino, J., Lohr, L (2008). Application of differential equation models to the population dynamics of Diamondback moth and its parasitoid - Diadegma semiclausum (Hellen). Proceedings of the 5th International workshop on Management of Diamondback Moth and other Crucifer Insect Pests. October 2006, Beijing, China, pp 166-181.

3. Tonnang. Z.E.H., Nedorezov, L.V., Ochanda, H., Owino, J., Lohr, L (2007). Modelling the impact of an exotic parasitoid Diadegma semiclausum on the Diamondback moth Plutella xylostella in Kenya, using the Lotka-Volterra model. Proceeding of the 6th European Conference of Ecological Modelling, November 2007, Trieste, Italy.

4. Tonnang. Z.E.H. (2005). Data mining model controller of crude oil fractionator based on back propagation algorithm and feed forward neural networks. Proceedings of 6th European Advanced Equipment control/Advanced Process Control (AEC/APC) Conference, April 2005,Dublin, Ireland.

Articles under review

1. Babasaheb B. Fand, Tonnang, Z.E.H., Mahesh Kumar, Ankush L. Kamble and S.K.Bal. A Temperature- based Phenology Model for Predicting Development Survival and Population Growth Potential of Mealynug, Phenacosses solenopsis Tinsley (Hemiptera: Pseudocpccidae) under varied agro-ecologies

2. Henri E. Z. Tonnang, Lilian K. Igweta, Henry Juarez, and Rousseau F Djouaka. Potential re-distribution of malaria vectors in Africa causes by climate change: A Tool box of practices for preventing malaria under changing climate context

3. R. Quiroz, A. Posadas, C. Yarlequé, H. Heidinger, C. Barreda, R. Raymundo, C. Gavilán, M. Carbajal, V. Mares, H. E.Z.Tonnang, J. Kroschel, G. Forbes, and S. De Haan. Challenges to sustainable potato production in a changing climate: A research perspective.

Advising BSc 1. Jaris Veneros: Predicción de la distribución geográfica potencial de Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller) empleando el modelo CLIMEX, 2011-2012 MSc 1. Siza Mwalusepo Evaluation of Continuous Host-Parasitoid Models 2009 -2010 PhD 1. Siza Mwalusepo Climate change induced change among maize stem borer communities and their main natural enemies along altitudinal gradients in East Africa 2012 - FELLOWSHIPS/TRAVEL GRANTS AND AWARDS

° Best Innovative Research distinguished during the Annual Convention of the Entomological Society of Peru 2012.

° Brown International Advance Research Institute (BIARI) Fellowship 2012. ° IPCC African Expert since June 2011. ° ISCB Africa ASBCB Joint Conference travel grant 2009 ° 5th MIM conference 2009 travel grant

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° African Climate Change Fellowship (ACCPF) Round 1 2008-2009 ° PhD Research Scholarship funded by the German Adacemic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the

African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Science (ARPPIS) through icipe 2005-2008 ° 2008 CIMPA-UNESCO Travel grant to attend the training on Mathematical and Computer Oriented

Methods for Landscape Modelling in Madagascar ° 2007 CIMPA-UNESCO Travel grant to attend the training on Statistics Mathematics and Statistics

for Health, in Yaounde, Cameroon. ° Visiting Scholar, School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, Australia. 2007 ° Travel grant by the International Society of Ecological Modelling for the 6th European Conference of

Ecological Modeling 2007 ° 2006 icipe Conference travel grant to attend the 5th International Workshop on the Management of

Diamondback Moth and other Crucifer Insect Pests ° Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF) Scholarship funded by the Nigeria Government. Faculty

of Technology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria 2004/2005 SELECTED TRAINING WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES ATTENDED

° Brown International Advance Research Institute (BIARI) Course on Climate Change and its Impacts: Regional Coupled Human-Natural Systems and Evidence-Based Policy Making, Providence, RI, USA, 9-23 June 2012.

° PICREVAT Workshop on Predictability of climatic information to reduce the vulnerability of Tropical Agriculture, Embu, Kenya, 20-22 February 2012.

° WCRP Open Science Conference Climate Research in Service to Society, Denver, USA, 24-28 October 2011 ° Early Career Scientist Assembly Workshop on Regional Climate Issues in Developing Countries ° National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesa Lab – Boulder, CO 19 – 22 October 2011 ° Summer School on Climate Impacts Modelling for Developing Countries: Water, Agriculture and

Health Trieste, Italy, 5-16 September 2011 ° IPCC African Expert Working Group II&III Accra, Ghana August 9-11, 201. ° Joint ICTP-TWAS Workshop on Regional Climate Change and Impacts Modeling for Critical

Assessment and Adaptation Strategies in Agriculture and Water Sectors over the Horn of Africa, 20-24 June 2011, Nairobi Kenya.

° Methodological approaches in climate downscaling and weather data reconstruction, March 21st - 22nd, 2011, CIP-HQ Lima, Peru.

° The African Climate Change Round 1 Culmination Conference 8-10 December 2010, Dakar, Senegal. ° ISCB Africa ASBCB Joint Workshop on Bioinformatics Bamako, Mali, 5th December to 3rd

December 2009. ° ISCB Africa ASBCB Joint Conference on Bioinformatics and Infectious Diseases Bamako, Mali, 30th

November to 3rd December 2009. ° 5th MIM Pan- African Malaria Conference held at the Kenyatta International Conference Center, in

Nairobi, Kenya, from 2 - 6 November 2009. ° 7th International Science Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change,

World Conference Center Bonn. UN Campus, Bonn Germany 26-30 April 2009 ° CIMPA/UNESCO - Mathematical & Computer Oriented Methods for Landscape Modelling:

Fianarantsoa, Madagascar, September 2008 ° Geospatial Database Development & Management using Arc GIS9.x and Remote Sensing: Regional

Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, July-August 2008 ° Workshop on Biogeochemical processes and fish dynamics in food web models for end-to-end

conceptualization of marine ecosystem. Theory and use of Ecopath with Ecosim: Trieste, Italy, November 2007

° Training on the use of the CLIMEX/DYMEX simulation platform for prediction of species occurrences at the school of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, Queensland, Brisbane, Australia from August to September 2007 under the supervision of Dr. Robert W. Sutherst and Prof. Myron Zalucki.

° CIMPA-UNESCO: Statistics Mathematics and Statistics for Health. Yaoundé Cameroon, April 2007

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° 5th International workshop on “Management of Diamondback Moth and Other Crucifer Insect Pests” October 24-27, 2006, Beijing, China.

° Training in “Bioinformatics and functional genomic” icipe, Nairobi from 1st November 2006 to 03 ° November 2006. ° Workshop on “Science writing, Editing and Oral Presentation Skills” icipe, Nairobi from December

2005. ° Training in “Applied statistics” (statistical principles, Experimental design, Data entry and analysis,

Excel, SAS...) in icipe, Nairobi, Kenya, October – November 2005. ° Workshop on “New methods in Process Control”: Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation-

Petroleum Refining Company (NNPC-PRC): Port Harcourt, Nigeria, December 2004. RESEACH GRANTS (2009 – present)

OTHER SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES • Basic Computer Programming using: Visual Basic, Pascal, C, C++, Java • Computer Hardware & Software Maintenance • Computer Application Software: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. • Statistical Software: SAS & R • Database Software: MySQL • General Computing Software: MatLab • Neural Network Software: Neurosolution • GIS Software: ArcView, ArcGIS 9.x • CLIMEX/DYMEX and ILCYM Softwares • Remote sensing Software: Erdas • Unix Systems: Ubuntu & Suze

HOBBIES · Sport: Jogging, Football, Table Tennis, Chess · Reading: General Scientific & Spiritual Self-Development CURRENT REFEREES 1. Prof. Nedorezov, Lev Vladimirovich, Doc. of Sci. (Ph.-Math.)

Funding source Grant Title (Principal investigators)

Amount US$ Period

SysTem for Analysis Research and Training (START)

PI: Predicting and Mapping the potential Redistribution of Malaria Vectors in Africa under Climate Change Scenario: Informing Malaria Control Programmes

US$ 40,000 February 2009 to February 2010

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Vipavska 13, Nova Gorica Slovenia, SI -500 Telephone: +386 (0) 5 -3315-299 Email: lev.nedorezov@ung.si/ l.v.nedorezov@gmail.com 2. Dr. Berhard Löhr International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) Cali, Colombia Email: b.lohr@cgiar.org 3. Prof. Robert (Bob) W. Sutherst, University of Queensland School of Integrative Biology Tel: +61 7 33651864 Fax +61 7 33651655 Cell: +61 427290442 Email: b.sutherst@uq.edu.au 4. Prof. Ochanda, Horace Associate Dean, Kenya Science Campus, University of Nairobi, Kenya. Telephone Number: 4449004/5 Ext. 2429 Email Addresses: hochanda@uonbi.ac.ke / hochanda@yahoo.com 5. Prof. Pius Z. Yanda Associate Research Professor Institute of Resource Assessment University of Dar es Salaam P.O. BOX 35097 Dar es Salaam Tanzania Tel (Office): +255-22-2410144 Mobile Phone: +255-744-265580 Fax (Office): +255-22-2410393 E-mail: yanda@ira.udsm.ac.tz 6. Prof. Jürgen Kroschel Head, Agroecology/IPM ICM Division International Potato Center (CIP), Apartado 1558, Lima 12, Peru Tel: +51 1 349-6017 Extension 3070 Fax: +51 1 317-5326 Email: j.kroschel@cgiar.org Website: www.cipotato.org