Mr. Innocent Tsorxe
Research Assistant
Innocent Tsorxe is currently a nuclear engineering graduate student at the Texas A&M University’s Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute (NSSPI), USA. Concurrently, he works as Assistant Health Physicist at the Texas A&M University’s Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), a department under Safety and Security in College Station, Texas. The EHS team of safety, health, and environmental professionals is focused on helping Texas A&M University to fulfill its mission of “providing the highest quality undergraduate and graduate programs” and “developing new understandings through research and creativity.”
His undergraduate nuclear knowledge background spans applicable principles of radiation safety, regulatory compliance, regulatory inspections and enforcement. His current graduate knowledge includes a full semester level course on nuclear nonproliferation. In addition, he has learned about radiological material management, security of radiological material instances in which alternative technologies could be used in place of radiological material at a September 2015 training workshop, hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and entitled Nuclear Security, Alternative Technologies and Consequence Management for the Health Physicist, graduate students from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) and from across the United States .Importantly, he has participated in a detector development training through the Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program under a research grant of the United States Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration.
Tsorxe is passionate about education and research in the nuclear and radiological field. For example, he has founded the Center for Radiological Education and Research, a non-profit organization in Ghana, with a mission of promoting and strengthening radiological engineering education in the sub-Saharan Africa.
At AFRICSIS, Mr. Tsorxe’s core research interest is at the intersection of public health and nuclear and radiological security with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.
A national of Ghana, Tsorxe acquired his primary, secondary education in the Volta Region’s Kpando District, Ghana. He holds a B.Sc. in Radiation Technology/Health Physics (Hons) from the Alcorn State University (2014, USA). He is a member of the Health Physics Society and American Nuclear Society.