Vincent Adongo
- PhD Researcher
UCD
Biography
Vincent Adongo is a PhD student currently at the University College Dublin. He has a bachelor’s degree in physics with a specialisation in Geophysics from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST, Ghana. He continued his master’s degree in Geophysics from the same University and won lots of laurels. These include AAU internship grant in 2017, a meritorious Graduate Assistantship position in the 2017/2018 academic year during his postgraduate studies in Ghana. He was awarded several scholarships and fellowships including the ICCR scholarship, Study in India scholarship and IISER-Kolkata fellowship, all in the year 2020. He was a project student in India and worked on a project in computational mineral physics where he gained adequate research experience in understanding the lower mantle mineral composition. He was awarded the SFI-Centre for Applied Geosciences Scholarship in 2022 as a PhD candidate in Ireland. He has gained a lot of experience working with people from different cultural diversities. His current project focuses on building a 3-dimensional segmented fault zone model with Tom Manzocchi being the lead investigator.
Role
- Postgraduate Researcher
Institution
- UCD
Research Area
- Platform Technologies
Expertise
- Geomodelling
