Innocent Tsorxe is a research assistant with AFRICSIS and a health physicist at Duke University Medical Center’s Occupational and Environmental Safety Office (OESO), Radiation Safety division. With AFRICSIS, his research focuses on the intersection of public health and nuclear and radiological security, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Before working at Duke University, he worked as an Assistant Health Physicist at Texas A&M University’s Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), a department under Safety and Security in College Station, Texas.

Innocent’s nuclear expertise and education spans applicable principles of radiation safety, regulatory compliance, and regulatory inspections and enforcement. His post-graduate knowledge includes an intensive course on nuclear nonproliferation. In addition, he attended a training workshop hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on radiological material management, security of radiological material, and instances in which alternative technologies could be used in place of radiological material. He also received important detector development training through the Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program under a research grant from the United States Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration.

A Ghanaian national, Innocent received his primary and secondary education in the Volta Region’s Kpando District, Ghana. He earned a B.S. in Radiation Technology/Health Physics (Hons.) from Alcorn State University in 2014. He received his M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University’s Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute (NSSPI) in 2016. Innocent is passionate about education and research in the nuclear and radiological field. For example, he founded the Center for Radiological Education and Research, a non-profit organization in Ghana to promote and strengthen radiological engineering education in sub-Saharan Africa. He is also an active member of the Health Physics Society and American Nuclear Society.