Quintino Medi

Bio

Quintino Medi is a PhD student at Clemson University in Plant and Environmental Sciences making biosensors for nutrient control. He has a master’s degree in georesources and environment from the Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University of Morocco. And bachelor`s degree in applied geosciences from Abdelmalek Essadi University of Morocco. He was a Mandela Washington Fellowship alumnus (leadership program) from Appalachian State University, in the civic engagement leadership track, 2022 cohort. In 2020 he worked in the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, as a field geologist. His role consisted primarily of organizing geological field missions, and geological explorations including but not limited to facies (rock) descriptions, and sampling (mineral explorations). Visiting sites of geological interest such as mines and quarries throughout the country. In 2021, he was hired to the position of technician of monitoring and evaluation at Ianda Guine Arrus, a European Union agricultural project. It was a community-based position where his missions were focused on meeting with farmers in different villages where the project had actions. He conducted interviews with communities (farmers) to collect data relating to their rice production, rice field equipment, rice use (consumption, sale, exchange) biographical and social data as well. From 2021, he worked at Tchico-Te school (high school teachers` training institute of Guinea-Bissau). He served as a geology lecturer, giving classes of basic geology to students majoring in biology, chemistry, and geography. His tasks included taking students on field trips to initiate them to field geology studies. He is one of the founding members of WILBA, an agricultural cooperative working with rural communities, especially farmers. The goal of the organization is to protect their interests against traders who abusively exploit them mainly in the cashew-nut trade through middlemen who drastically reduce the price to the farmers.

Area(s) of Expertise

Plant and Environmental Sciences