My Institute Versus Me

About the Book

My Institute Versus Me is an inspirational piece for aspiring scientists which gives the steps and hurdles in becoming and working as a scientist and eventually as research manager. It outlines how these stressors could be overcome or mitigated in the career of a scientist and when he is made to manage people and resources.

About the Author

Jacob Mbua Ngeve is a research scientist and research manager. After completing university doctoral studies in the USA, Dr Ngeve came back to Cameroon and started a long and fruitful career on root crops research and international agriculture which took him to nearly all African countries, working with various international organizations and national research systems on projects and networks. His work led him to be promoted to full research professor, and he worked his way to become Director General, a Presidential appointee of the Institute of Agricultural Research, Cameroon. He is author of several scientific articles and is well known in the African region. He is presently resident in Creedmoor, North Carolina with his family.