Selorm Yaotse Dorvlo

Selorm Yaotse Dorvlo is an agricultural mechanisation expert and a senior lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Ghana. His research focuses on developing sustainable agricultural mechanisation strategies for smallholder rice farmers in Ghana, assessing the potential of biomass conversion to energy within the agricultural production sector, and designing innovative and suitable agricultural machinery.

Selorm is also a professional engineer registered with the Ghana Institution of Engineering. He has been involved in various research projects through grants he has received, such as the post-doctoral fellowship with the Food Systems Research Network for Africa (FSNet-Africa), the Feed the Future Grant for Early Career researchers, and the ARUA-CCNY Early Career research fellowship. He is on a one-year research fellowship at the ARUA Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Food Systems at the University of Pretoria.

His educational credentials are as follows: a doctorate in agricultural engineering obtained in 2018 from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, a Master of Philosophy in agricultural engineering with specialisation in machine systems acquired in 2013 from the University of Ghana, and a Bachelor of Science degree in agricultural engineering, earned in 2010 from the University of Ghana.