ACCA-LAB
UM6P's African Climate Change Adaptation Lab
 

Dr. Epule is currently an Assistant Professor and Chair of Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainability Strategies in Africa at the International Water Research Institute (IWRI), Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Benguerir, Morocco. Here, he is director of the ''African Climate Change and Adaptation Lab,'' (ACCA Lab).

Prior to moving to Morocco in January 2021, he served as an Associate Professor of International Farming Systems between 2019 and 2020. Between 2016 and 2019 he served as a Post Doctoral Researcher at the department of Geography at  McGill University. He still holds an adjunct faculty position at McGill teaching Human Dimensions of Climate Change course.

Dr. Epule was also a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Geography of University of Montreal (2014-2016).

His research is at the interface of the interactions between climate and land use changes. He holds a PhD in Environmental Science from University of Quebec in Montreal's Institute of Environmental Science. His second masters degree was in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Sciences from Lund University in Sweden. He holds another masters in Geography and a Bachelors degree in Geography. He is author of two books and more than 45 peer review papers in top of the line journals like Plos One, Springer Nature Applied Science, Water, Agriculture, Environmental Science and Policy, Land Use Policy, Regional Environmental Change, Small Scale Forestry and Environment Development and Sustainability etc. He has obtained major grants from the UM6P in Morocco, SSHRC in Canada, the FRQSC and other organizations in Canada.

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