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Prof. Daniel Brice Kenko Nkontcheu

Daniel Brice Kenko Nkontcheu is an Associate Professor of Ecotoxicology in the Department of Animal Biology and Conservation, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Cameroon. His work examines how pollutants move through tropical ecosystems and affect them, and he uses that evidence to support safer agricultural practice and better environmental management. Prof. Kenko received all his academic training at the University of Dschang. He earned a B.Sc. in Zoology in 2005, an M.Sc. in Animal Biology (Applied Ecology) in 2008, and a PhD in Animal Biology (Ecotoxicology) in 2020. His doctoral thesis combined pesticide risk assessment with a study of phytoplankton communities to biomonitor the Benoe stream in South-West Cameroon. He received the Academic Excellence Award as best student of his batch in both 2004 and 2005. He joined the University of Buea as Assistant Lecturer of Ecology in 2011, became Lecturer of Ecotoxicology in 2020, and was promoted to Associate Professor of Ecotoxicology in 2025. His research covers pesticide ecotoxicology, ecological risk assessment, community ecology, bioremediation, restoration ecology, and integrated pest management. He has documented pesticide use patterns across several agroecological zones of Cameroon. Using the PRIMET risk model, he has assessed the risks pesticides pose to earthworms, bees, non-target arthropods, amphibians, and aquatic communities. He uses plankton and macroinvertebrates as bioindicators of freshwater health. He has also described aquatic macrophytes with remediation potential and local plant products that could replace synthetic pesticides. In 2023, he extended his expertise to DNA-based methods as a visiting researcher at the University of Oslo under the NORPART-ANTENNA programme. He also works in soil molecular ecology as a team member of Basecamp Research at the University of Buea. Prof. Kenko has authored 39 peer-reviewed articles in journals including Science of the Total Environment, Chemosphere, Heliyon, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Soil & Environmental Health, and PLOS One. His work has received 447 citations, with an h-index of 13 and an i10-index of 18. He has presented his research at SETAC conferences in Nigeria and Zambia, at the International Francophone Conference of Entomology, and at meetings of the Cameroon Bioscience Society. His funded projects include an IDEAWILD grant, on which he was principal investigator, and a ZEISS equipment award worth USD 30,000 for the Ecotoxicology Unit.