A TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR NOBLE BANADDA

14 May 1975 – 1 July 2021

MEMBER PASAE COUNCIL - 2019-2020

LATE PROFESSOR NOBLE BANADDA

• Biosystems engineer, researcher and academic, was a Professor of Biosystems Engineering at Makerere University, Uganda
• Professor and Chair of the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Makerere University Kampala (Uganda)
• First Sub-Saharan African to graduate with a PhD in Chemical engineering from the Katholiek University, Leuven in Belgium in 2006
• Appointed as Full Professor in 2012 at the age of 37, one of the youngest persons in the history of Makerere University
• First African recipient of the Pius XI Golden Medal 2018; the first African under the age of 45 to be recognized by a sitting Pope
• Bachelor of Science in Food Science and Technology (1998), Sokoine University Agriculture, Tanzania • MSc in Processing Engineering (2006) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Processing Engineering (2000), Katholeik Universiteit, Belgium
• In October 2020, was Inaugurated as one of the 10 Oliver Thambo (ORTARChi) Chairs attracting USD 250,000.00 annually and an additional 100,000 Euros for the next 15 years for graduate research in Agricultural Waste Management on Farms with a target of training 15 PhDs, 9 Post-Doctoral students and 27 MSc
• Developed a solar powered irrigation pump, the Multipurpose Farmers’ Tractor called MV Mulimi, and started the extraction of fuel from hard plastics and making insecticides from the eucalyptus and other agricultural waste
• Brain behind the development of the parts of the Bulamu Ventilator and the Biodegradable Face Shields in efforts to combat COVID-19.