Speakers

Cheikh Becaye Gaye

Place of Birth : Senegal
Position : Vice-Chair, National Academy of Sciences and Technology of Senegal, Senegal
Field of study : Geology, hydrogeology, geophysics, Water resources management, hydrochemistry, and isotope hydrology

Professor Cheikh Bécaye Gaye holds a PhD in hydrogeology. He began his professional career in 1977 at the Geology Department of Cheikh Anta Diop University (Dakar, Senegal), where he climbed all the ranks from assistant attaché to full professor of exceptional class, at the time of his retirement in 2015. He has directed more than fifty doctoral theses and counts among his former students many teacher-researchers at various universities in Africa. Professor Cheikh Gaye worked on secondment for 7 years (1999 - 2006) at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna (Austria) as an expert in isotope hydrology, mainly responsible for developing the use of nuclear methods for research and management of water resources in Africa. Professor Gaye ended his professional career as Director General of Research at the Ministry of Higher Education and Research of Senegal (2014 - 2016). He was elected as a full member of the National Academy of Sciences and Technology of Senegal in 2010 and is currently Vice-Chair and Chair of the section on Fundamental and Applied Sciences and Innovation. Professor Gaye is Chair and founding member of the Senegalese IHP Committee and was Vice Chair of the IHP Bureau (2016 – 2018). Professor Cheikh Gaye is the author or co-author of more than 200 scientific publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and served as associate editor of the Hydrogeology Journal for several years.

• September 2014 – December 2016, Director General of Research, Ministry of Higher Education, Senegal

• January 2006 – September 2014, Professor of Hydrogeology, Department of Geology, University Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) of Dakar, Senegal

• January 1999 – January 2006, Isotope Hydrologist, International Atomic Energy Agency

• October 1997 – January 1999, Full Professor and Director of the post-graduate training program in water Sciences (3ème cycle) at the Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, UCAD 

• October 1993 – October 1997, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, UCAD, Responsible for the postgraduate training in water Sciences at the Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, UCAD