Prof. Dr. Raphael Tshimanga Muamba

Raphael Tshimanga is Co-chair of the Congo Basin Science Initiative, Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Kinshasa, DRC and Director of the School of Water and the Congo Basin Water Resources Research Center (CRREBaC). Within CBSI affiliate projects, he co-leads the Hydrology and Freshwater Observatory, established under CRAFT. For EO4PEAT, he leads on monitoring and modelling of Congo Basin hydrology.

Raphael is developing the Congo Basin Catchment Information System, a water resources management tool and is author and co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. He is President of the Central African Group of Experts of Climate Change (GEAC) and a Research Fellow under the Feature African Independent Research (FLAIR) programme of the UK Royal Society and African Academy of Science.