Speakers - CRDWC 2025

Biography

Dr George Chimowa is Senior Lecturer and an ARISE Fellow at the Botswana International University of Science and Technology, leading a young group of researchers that are exploring the possibility of diagnosing Lung Cancer and Tuberculosis using human breath. Prior to that, Dr Chimowa, worked at the CNRS in Toulouse, France, as well as at CSIR in Pretoria, South Africa as a Post-doctoral fellow. Dr Chimowa has vast experience in the electrical properties of carbon-based Nanomaterials, from DC transport to high frequency AC transport. His major research focus now is on exploiting the unique quantum properties of Nanomaterials for disease diagnosis. Dr Chimowa studied at the University of Witwatersrand where he did his MSc and PhD in Physics. He has published some fascinating work in Sensors and Actuators, Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letters and Nature, Scientific reports, just to name a few. For any collaborative multi-center projects, you can reach him on the email: chimowag@biust.ac.bw.