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I was born in Togo, a small nation of 4 millions habitants on the coast of West Africa. I grew up in Lome, where I attended and graduated from high school de Tokoin in 2001. In high school,  I specialized in Physics and Mathematics. My dream was to pursue a career in Physics. I was very impressed by the contriubtions of Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton to Physics and the contributions of Laplace, Poincarre, and Riemann in Mathematics. I moved to the US in 2002 and attended Camden County College for two years,  majoring in Biology. During my time at Camden Community College,  I became interested in Charles Darwin’s the theory of Evolution.

Upon completion at Camden Community College, I decided to further my education at Temple University, double majoring in Biochemistry and Chemistry, and minoring in Mathematics. I expect to graduate in May 2008. Although my graduate studies are still undecided, I believe that I have the potential to pursue a career in either Medicine, Pharmacy or Chemistry.

I joined the Borguet research group in January 2007, learning the skills and secrets of research. The goal of my research consists in understanding the Effect of Doping on the growth, stability, and non linearity of Hydrogen terminated Silicon (111) surfaces. I am very determined to find out how the outcome of my research can be useful for various applications such as wet control, corrosion inhibition, for the exciting field of growing organic functional groups on the silicon surface as well as for Bio implants.