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When Mody Ayompe Lacour was 6, he took batteries, a bulb and cables, and assembled a flashlight that illuminated the room and stupefied the siblings watching his experiment. That event sparked a lifelong fascination with science for Lacour, who left his native Cameroon in 2006 for Ireland, where he received a Ph.D. in civil and structural engineering. In 2019, he came to UCI after meeting fellow Cameroonian Benis Egoh, a professor of Earth system science. These days, Lacour works to make Cameroon’s and sub-Saharan Africa’s palm oil trade — an industry that leads to deforestation and environmental degradation — more sustainable.
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