Short Biography

My research centres on the phytochemical investigation of selected Millettia and Dalbergia species for antimicrobial activity, within the broader field of natural product chemistry. His expertise encompasses the isolation, purification, and structural elucidation of bioactive compounds using advanced extraction and chromatographic techniques, as well as evaluating their biological properties, including antimicrobial (antibacterial and antiviral), anti-inflammatory, and anticancer activities. He is also involved in the semi-synthesis of natural products to enhance or modify their pharmacological profiles and is committed to systematically documenting related ethnobotanical knowledge. He possesses extensive hands-on experience with state-of-the-art analytical instruments, such as high-field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (400–600 MHz), LC-ESI-MS, preparative HPLC, UV-Vis, IR, GC-MS, optical rotatory dispersion (ORD), and circular dichroism (CD) spectrometers. Skilled in cheminformatics and data analysis tools like ChemDraw and MestReNova (Mnova), as well as reference management software such as EndNote, he has published two peer-reviewed articles in the Journal of Natural Products. His research skills were further developed during a two-year research residency at Uppsala University, Sweden, supported by the Swedish Research Council, where he worked under the mentorship of Professor Máté Erdélyi, gaining advanced training in NMR spectroscopy, HPLC, LC-ESI-MS, and related spectroscopic techniques. He is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (AMRSC). While at Makerere University, I coauthored works with various authors on AI (Machine learning), optimisation and modelling, hydrogen fuel cells, adsorption, nanotechnology, self-healing materials, photocatalysis, metal-organic frameworks, textile dyes, water treatment, and solid-state batteries.