Each month, beginning February 2022, a researcher is featured giving briefs on research undertaken/undertaking.

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FEATURED RESEARCHER – JAN 2023

Machakos University (MksU) was recently awarded the rare and prestigious UNESCO Chair on Cloud Computing for Sustainable Development within the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme commencing in January 2023 for an initial period of four years. Under this design-led transdisciplinary research project, Machakos University will lead a dynamic private-public partnership that will address five sub-themes, namely: Health and Well-being; Agriculture and Food Security; Education and Training; Climate Resilience and Environmental Sustainability; and Space Science and Surveillance.


FEATURED RESEARCHER – Dec 2022

At Machakos University, she is working on a trans-disciplinary project that involves researching on wildfire regimes in Mt Kenya forest. She is specifically using geospatial tools to map fire severity patterns from recent fires, analyze historical fire weather, and compare with projected weather for Mt Kenya region. The aim is to understand whether climate change has an effect on the frequency of wildfires.


FEATURED RESEARCHER – Nov 2022

He has recently complemented a project in collaboration with the African Climate & Development Initiative (University of Cape Town) titled A Co-designed, Integrated Framework for Adaptive Management of Freshwater in Coastal Areas Under the Threat of Climate Change: A Case Study of Lamu, Kenya. Currently, he is working on a project to leverage use of nature-based solutions to address environmental challenges, especially in the water sector.


FEATURED RESEARCHER – Oct 2022

Her research interests revolve around, the development of analytical methods and monitoring materials. Specifically, nanoscale and nano-enabled materials/polymers that offer new possibilities for the development of novel remediation and environmental sensing/monitoring technologies for water, soil and air pollutants.


FEATURED RESEARCHER – Sep 2022

Her current research interests involve application of microorganisms and microbial metabolites in Biotechnology, Agriculture, Medicine and Environment. This work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as PLOS One, International Journal of Microbiology and Journal of Toxicology (Hindawi) among others which can be accessed from https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4O3MLhAAAAAJ&hl=en


FEATURED RESEARCHER – AUG 2022

He is currently a KEMRI-Welcome Trust research fellow working on a Kenya-specific optimal strategy of allocating the limited COVID-19 vaccine doses such that the overall disease burden and the cost of implementing such a strategy is minimized.


FEATURED RESEARCHERJULY 2022

His current research interests cut across the immunological analysis of vaccine and drugs molecular candidates in Covid-19, Snake-venom, Malaria and Cancer.


FEATURED RESEARCHERJUNE 2022

Currently he is doing a research project entitled: BARIDI SANA – High performance micro-2-phase cooling system for Space Applications.


FEATURED RESEARCHERMAY 2022

PROJECT: A Situational Analysis of Intervention Measures in The Management of HIV/AIDS Prevalence in Kisii County

FUNDER: National Research Fund (NRF)

AMOUNT AWARDED: 10 Million

STATUS: Ongoing

Project Summary

To generate data for future interventions, this project set out to carry out a situational analysis of intervention measures in the management of HIV/AIDS prevalence in Kisii County.


FEATURED RESEARCHERAPRIL 2022

Machakos University, in partnership with University of Bergen (Department of Global public health and primary care), Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Norwegian University of Science and Technology won grant to implement Water ESSENCE Africa whose theme is creating synergy to meet the global challenges.


FEATURED RESEARCHERMARCH 2022

Her current research aims at developing a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) sensor based on MIPs for detection of carcinogenic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the environment.


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