Tiko, Elvis

Elvis Tiko Mongomi is a research intern at UNU-CRIS and is currently pursuing a postgraduate degree in Migration and refugees at Howest University of Applied Sciences. He is a holder of a double master’s in educational psychology and Traffic safety, from the University of Buea (Cameroon) and the University of Hasselt (Belgium) respectively. Elvis also holds a Diploma in Human resources management and Project management and Evaluation from the Pan-African Institute of Development in West Africa (PAID-WA).

Elvis Tiko has carried out psychological research projects on the use of Resilience for the Resolution of Identity Crisis among adolescents in Cameroon for his master thesis. He has also carried out a thesis project on Search and Rescue Command and Control with the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones) for emergency management under the auspices of the Transportation Research Institute of Hasselt University(IMOB). This research project gave Elvis the privilege to share scientific data and interact with several international Humanitarian organisations for Search and Rescue in Belgium, Germany, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and South Africa in the context of improving emergency management activities for a fast rescue of persons exposed to risk as a result of natural or man-made disasters with innovations of Unmanned Ariel Vehicles(drones).

Elvis has been an Erasmus intern with the Aerospace and Integration Research Centre at the University of Cranfield in the United Kingdom, where he actively contributed Scientific Knowledge with a paper, on Safety assurance in risk management in the use of Vertiports and electric vertical take-off and landing Vehicles(eVTOLs) for urban air mobility. Elvis has also been involved in humanitarian volunteering with the Red Cross reception centre in Brugge, and with Operating Total Impact (OTI); a Cameroon civil society Organisation whose mission is focused on the transformation of prison yards into Dormitory Schools, bringing formal education into the very heart of detention, and giving inmates total quality Education.

At UNU-CRIS he will work under the supervision of Luk Van Langenhove in the field of science diplomacy in Cameroon.