Dr Desmond Edem Primus Klenam is a professional that gets the job done and passionate about learning new things. He approaches learning with the heart and mind of a novice and pay attention to details like an expert. He works under little or no supervision and easily integrate with people from various disciplines and cultural background. He develops students and young professionals by helping them navigate minefields of life. He sees himself as a guide, mentor, tutor, coach and advisor; his way of putting the next generation in pole position. He has worked in cross-functional teams of young people and applied multidisciplinary approaches and strategic thinking to challenges in academia and management consulting.
Dr Klenam is an independent thinker with a knack for challenging conventional wisdom, constantly searching for innovate ways to improve existing systems and have contributed meaningful ideas to solutions using Metallurgy and Materials as the vehicle. He has a strong background in first principles and experimentation alloy development, mechanical characterisation, ThermoCalc simulation, corrosion and mechanical behaviour of metallic materials. Formal education got him certificated, but has never interfered with his personal development and the ability to think. He is very disciplined, time conscious and seek opportunities to make a difference individually or collectively as great team makes the dream work. To him, the periodic table of elements is a groceries list and the laws of physics and mathematics is a cookbook to create the materials and technologies of the future, he strongly believes in baby steps and do not want things that require effort with no effort. In summary, Dr Klenam aspire to inspire before he expire.
