He is to spend 6 months researching and networking at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, India. He was the first Sierra Leonean to have been awarded the World Bank Africa Centre of Excellence (ACE) scholarship to pursue a Master’s degree in Road and Transportation Engineering in 2019 with the Regional Transport Research and Education Centre, Kumasi (TRECK).
One year into his doctoral research, Simeon, through the founder and then Centre Director Ing. Rev Prof Charles Anum Adams who doubles as his Principal Supervisor, applied for the most prestigious CV Raman fellowship program, a fellowship under the Department of Science and Technology through the Government of India.
He was selected for the CV Raman fellowship based on his research proposal, and ability to conduct independent research. During his time in India, he is expected to gain knowledge on the operations of Public Transportation in some Indian cities, attend seminars, and make presentations at conferences. He is at the same time expected to be working on his doctoral thesis while participating in the fellowship.
Dr. C.V Raman, an Indian theoretical physicist who was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for his works on light scattering, called the ‘Raman effect’ was the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize in any sciences.
