ABIMANA Colette

Biography

Colette Abimana is currently a Ph.D. student in energy materials at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and

Technology located in Arusha, Tanzania. She completed her master’s degree in Energy

Engineering at the Pan African University Institute of Water and Energy Science

(including Climate change) and a bachelor’s degree in Physics at the University

of Rwanda College of Science and Technology. She usually serves as an assistant

lecturer in the physics department at the College of Science and Technology

University of Rwanda with five years of working experience.  Her

expertise is in the fabrication of Nano magnetite particles, biogas, and biochars

production using wastes organic matter. She has also basic knowledge of the generation

of energy from other renewable energy resources. She has gained knowledge in

nuclear energy as well through her visit to the International Atomic Energy

Agency (IAEA), where she was trained in the development of a curriculum for the

nuclear physics program to be taught for undergraduate studies and different

laboratory experiments related to nuclear instrumentations. She is keen to become a remarkable researcher

and increase the visibility and use of clean energy technologies to reduce

greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.