Staff Profiles: Chemical Technology
Dr Munyaradzi Shumba
Chairperson
Research Interests:
- Nanosensor fabrication based on Nanosized phthalocyanines and carbon based nanomaterials for disease indicator molecules, Environmental remediation.
Professor Mambo Moyo
Lecturer
Research Interests:
- Electrochemical analysis, electrochemical sensors and biosensors.
- Fabrication of biosensors using
Dr Upenyu Guyo
Senior Research Fellow
Research Interests: Chemical technological science which can be broken down into the following specific areas:
- Water treatment
- Applied synthetic organic chemistry
- Catalysis
- Process development
- Continuous flow processing
- Polymer synthesis
- Computational
- Chemistry
Dr Fidelis Chigondo
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Organic synthesis
- Continuous flow synthesis
- Medicinal chemistry
- Environmental remediation
- Material chemistry
Dr Gift Mehlana
Lecturer
Research Interests:
- Development of novel materials and their applications in heterogeneous catalysis, biomedical science and sensing.
Mrs Ngceboyakwethu P. Zinyama
Lecturer
Research interests Computational drug design, Breast Cancer, Fats and Oils, Photochromic Xerogels, Biosorption
Mr Tichaona Nharingo
Lecturer
Research interests:
- Crystal engineering of metal-organic frameworks based on mixed ligand systems.
- Developing novel sorbents for wastewater treatment.
- Static and kinetic studies of acid mine drainage.
- Pesticides and herbicides persistence in plants and soils respectively.
- Heavy metal determination in plants, soil and water
Ms Edith Sebata
Lecturer
Mr T B Bhebhe
Assistant Lecturer
Mr Vitalis Chitsa
Temporary Full Time Lecturer
Research Interests:
- Materials Chemistry with particular specialisation in the area of porous metal organic frameworks (MOFs).
Mrs Piwai Tshuma
Temporary Full Time Lecturer
Research interests:
- Composite Materials Preparation of metal–organic frameworks with functional groups for heterogeneous catalysis.
Ms Tafadzwa W Murinzi
Temporary Full Time Lecturer
Research Interests:
- Catalysis using Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) the elucidation of structure-activity relationships in heterogeneous catalysis of Polyoxometalate (POMs) based Organic–Inorganic Hybrids.
Mr Isaac Mambanda
Laboratory Technician
