Gabriel Nguetseng was born in 1950 in Foto, Cameroon. He earned his PhD in 1984 from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6. He was appointed Senior Lecturer in 1985 at the University of Yaoundé and promoted to Associate Professor six years later. Since 2004, he has served as a Professor of Mathematics. Gabriel Nguetseng is a co-initiator, along with Grégoire Allaire, of the well-known two-scale convergence theory, which underpins a widely used homogenization procedure. He has held visiting professor positions at several universities and research institutions and has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences. Additionally, he served as the organizer of the mini-symposium "Homogenization and its Applications" at ICIAM 2011 in Vancouver, Canada. He was the Secretary General of the Cameroonian Mathematical Society and the former Director of the University Center for Information Technology (Centre de Calcul) at the University of Yaoundé.