About
I'm a PhD researcher in lithium-metal battery electrochemistry at Chungnam National University in Korea. I build Python tools for battery data, render research processes in 3D, and have taught O- and A-Level Mathematics and Chemistry for over ten years.
In each of these I'm doing the same thing: understanding something deeply, finding the structure underneath it, and making it easier for someone else to use — a student, a research group, or a reader of a paper.
That's the thread through the research, the code, the figures and the classroom.
Timeline
PhD Candidate
Chungnam National University · Daejeon, Korea
Advanced energy materials. Research focus: lithium metal anodes, solid-electrolyte interphase engineering, and capacity-fade diagnostics.
MSc Energy Science & Technology
Chungnam National University · Daejeon, Korea
Graduated 25 Aug 2025. 2 peer-reviewed papers published. 2 patents filed on lithium metal anode technology.
Graduate Researcher
Hanbat National University · Daejeon, Korea
Began materials science research in South Korea. Continued online piano tutoring in parallel — the classroom never fully stopped.
Piano Tutor & Entrepreneur
Bulawayo & Harare, Zimbabwe → Online (2021–present)
Left a full-time teaching post to run a mobile piano tutoring business — visiting students at home with a keyboard, teaching by ear and by principle. Scaled to 20 students before relocating to Korea. This chapter taught branding, sales, design, and customer care more concretely than any course. Still teaching: three students from one family, online, today.
AS & A-Level Teacher — Mathematics & Chemistry
Littlerock International School · Harare · then Hilbright Science College · Harare
Cambridge IGCSE, AS, and A-Level experience in both subjects. Deepened LaTeX for professional exam design. Began self-teaching web development — motivated by wanting a path beyond the classroom. At Hilbright, the gap between effort and financial reward crystallised the decision to pivot.
Teacher — Integrated Science & Chemistry
Bulawayo Adventist High School · Bulawayo
Forms 1–3 Integrated Science and A-Level Chemistry. In addition to teaching, directed the school choir and accompanied worship services on piano. LaTeX adopted here — professional exam typesetting felt like a minimum standard.
Teacher — O-Level Biology
Townsend Girls High School · Bulawayo
O- and A-Level Biology. A short but formative posting between the ZINWA attachment and a return to BAHS.
Industrial Attachment — ZINWA
Zimbabwe National Water Authority
Final-year engineering attachment in water resources and process engineering — required component of the BEng programme.
A-Level Chemistry & O-Level Science Teacher
Bulawayo Adventist High School · Bulawayo
Taught concurrently while completing a full engineering degree — not the conventional path, but an honest one. This is where the instinct for clear explanation was forged: teaching advanced chemistry to real students while still being a student myself.
BEng (Hons) Chemical Engineering
National University of Science and Technology · Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Built a strong foundation in thermodynamics, reaction engineering, materials science, process design, statistics, engineering mathematics, and process optimization, with extensive experience applying mathematical and scientific principles to analyze, model, and solve engineering challenges.
What I work on
Lithium-metal anodes and SEI engineering
Battery-data analysis in Python (LIBS)
3D renders of lab processes in Blender
Interactive learning modules (React & Three.js)
Maths & Chemistry (A-Level, IGCSE, Cambridge)
Husband, and father to a young son born in 2025.
Tools & skills