Affiliateship: 2021-2025
Cohort 6
Country (Nationality)
Kenya
Discipline
Chemical Sciences
Bio
Dr. Bridget Mutuma is a Lecturer/Research Scientist at the School of Pure and Applied Sciences in Kirinyaga University, Kenya. She has a BSc. degree in Analytical Chemistry from Kenyatta University, (Kenya, 2009), an MSc degree in Material Science and Engineering from Kangwon National University (South Korea, 2013) and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa, 2016). Dr Mutuma has extensive postdoctoral experience in nanomaterials, sensor technology and energy storage systems. Her research interest is on the development of core-shell nanostructures/carbon-based nanomaterials and their application in gas sensors, solar cells, supercapacitors and photocatalysis. In particular, she has pioneered research in the design and use of hollow carbons as gas sensing materials. Her current research entails the generation of core-shell nanostructures for the design of gas and electrochemical sensors. Her research findings have been published in over 30 peer-reviewed articles and presented in several national and international conferences. In the last few years, she has mentored and co-supervised BSc Honours, MSc and PhD students in the area of nanotechnology and materials chemistry. Dr Mutuma has been a member of the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA); Solar energy project, South African Chemical Society, and the American Chemical Society (ACS) and is a registered Professional Natural Scientist (Pr.Sci.Nat). Due to her research achievements, she has received several awards and fellowships; ACS PITTCON travel grant (USA, 2020), CNPq Visiting PhD Research Fellowship (Brazil, 2016), Penny Huddle Memorial Award (Witwatersrand University, 2015) and the Korean Government Scholarship Award (South Korea, 2010), among others.