April 2022
Rufaro Brenda Kawondera > Other Awards
Fully funded scholarship to attend the 14th Green Chemistry Summer School in Venice Italy
December 2020
Rufaro Brenda Kawondera > Other Awards
Fully funded PhD Scholarship
November 2010
Rufaro Brenda Kawondera > Other Awards
Book Prize for best graduating student in Chemical and Process Systems Engineering
November 2010
Rufaro Brenda Kawondera > Other Awards
Book Prize for being the best Student in Technopreneurship
November 2010
Rufaro Brenda Kawondera > Other Awards
An award sponsered by Lafarge cement for the best graduating student in Chemical and Process Engineering
November 2010
Rufaro Brenda Kawondera > Other Awards
An award sponsered by National Foods(Pvt) (Ltd) for the student with the best leadership skills in Chemical and Process Systems Engineering
October 2024
Rufaro Brenda Kawondera > Other Awards
Best innovation in Materials Science and Engineering
September 2024
Rufaro Brenda Kawondera > Other Awards
Travel grant to attend the Pan African Chemistry Network 16th Conference in Kenya
January 2023
Rufaro Brenda Kawondera > Other Awards
Travel grant to attend the Pan African Conference on Crystallography
January 2023
Rufaro Brenda Kawondera > Other Awards
Training on XRD
June 2023
Rufaro Brenda Kawondera > Other Awards
Travel grant to attend the 3rd International School on Porous Materials in Italy
Full Member
Dr Rufaro Brenda Kawondera
Membership since:
2020
Field of activity:
Awards
About me
Dr. Rufaro B. Kawondera is a researcher and lecturer at Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT), in Zimbabwe. She received her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering. She has research experience in synthesis and characterisation of chiral Metal Organic Frameworks, focussing on their application in photoelectrocatalytic water splitting to produce green hydrogen. Her research interests include synthesis of nanomaterials and their application in water splitting and electrochemical sensors.
Degrees:
2020
Master
Chemical Sciences
2009
Undergraduate
Engineering sciences
2024
Doctorate
Engineering sciences
14 th Green Chemistry Summer School
2026
Venice, Italy
Chiral metal organic frameworks for photoelectrocatalytic water splitting
20 th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWPSA Symposium Johannesburg
2026
Johannesburg,South Africa
Sorptive remotion of micropollutants from drinking water using eggshell and peanut shell biochar composites
Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers 9 th Biennial Conference
2026
Kariba, Zimbabwe
Manufacture of mosquito repellent candles infused with nepeta cataria
3rd International School on Porous Materials
2026
Como, Italy
Enhanced water splitting capabilities of L-cysteine doped MOFse
14 th Green Chemistry Summer School
2026
Venice, Italy
20th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWPSA Symposium
2026
Johannesburg, South Africa
Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers 9 th Biennial Conference
2026
Kariba, Zimbabwe
Pan African Chemistry Network 16th conference
2026
University of Nairobi, Nairobi Kenya
Pan African Conference on Crystallography
2026
Bomas of Kenya, Nairobi Kenya