Professor Yoboué Véronique is an internationally renowned expert in air pollution and a distinguished scientist in the fields of environmental physical chemistry and environmental sciences. She currently serves as the President of Université Nangui Abrogoua in Côte d'Ivoire. Since obtaining her PhD in Environmental Physical Chemistry from Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France) in 1991, she has dedicated 34 years to higher education, elite training, and cutting-edge scientific research. As the long-standing head of the "Aerosols and Pollution" research team at the Laboratory of Sciences of Matter, Environment and Solar Energy (LASMES) at Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Côte d'Ivoire, she has become a core strategic leader in promoting Sino-African, Franco-African, and African-European international academic cooperation, thanks to her outstanding institutional governance capabilities and profound influence in the field of environmental health in Africa.
In academia and international scientific governance, Professor Véronique has demonstrated extensive global leadership. She currently serves as the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques (CSRS) and was elected as a board member of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) in 2025. She was invited to serve as an appointed member of the Scientific Committee for disciplinary sector 1 "Physical and Chemical Sciences of the Earth Environment" (CSS1) at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD). She is also a member of the Technical Scientific Committee for Engineering Sciences and Technologies (CTS-STI) of the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES), and a member of the Technical Committee of the National Committee of the Global Environment Facility in Côte d'Ivoire (CNFEM). Over her decades-long career, she has served as Vice President of Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, in charge of planning, programming, and external relations. She has also steered several large-scale multilateral research projects in European, French, and Franco-Ivorian cooperation as national coordinator, and has supervised over a dozen high-quality doctoral and master's theses. Concurrently, she is a distinguished mentor for the "Women in Science and Technology" initiative, long dedicated to promoting gender diversity and inclusion in scientific careers.
For her outstanding contributions to scientific exploration and international research cooperation, Professor Véronique has been awarded multiple highest academic honors and knighthoods at both international and national levels. In 2021, she received the "Tremplin" Prize for Franco-African bilateral scientific research cooperation, awarded by the French Academy of Sciences and the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI), for her prominent contributions to the "Nitrogen Cycle in West Africa" project. In June of the same year, she was appointed Knight of the CAMES International Order of Academic Palms. In 2023, due to her exceptional scientific career and outstanding social contributions, she was successively awarded Knight of the French National Order of Merit (Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite) and Knight of the Ivorian National Order of Educational Merit. As a prolific scientist, she has published over a hundred high-level, highly downloaded SCI scientific papers in top international atmospheric science and environmental journals such as Atmospheric Environment, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, and Earth System Science Data, continuously leading research on air quality and ecological trends in West Africa and globally.